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We behave as we treated
As a leader, your highest level of service is to respect others’ time. A reason for the current levels of fatigue and burnout is that we don’t respect our time, and neither do others.
The power of smart questions
As a team coach, to help sustain the team’s momentum to achieve lasting positive change, it’s essential the team be held in and reflect on powerful questions.
To know is to not know
High performing, collaborative teams distinguish themselves in how they deal with complex and disruptive challenges.
Take my new Team Quiz
I’m excited to launch my new team quiz designed to identify whether your team flounders, functions or flourishes for most of the time.
Engagement : Experience
Organisations are realising that high engagement scores do not necessarily correlate with a positive employee experience.
My story I’ve never shared
You may have asked who is the person behind what he writes? What’s his story? In the spirit of vulnerability, courage, and humility, here’s my story I’ve never shared before.
Why function when you can flourish?
We can’t see what we can’t distinguish. The distinctions between functioning and flourishing teams are subtle but significant.
80:60:20 Paradox
Why is it that 80% of leaders claim to spend 60% of their time in teams, yet only 20% of teams are high performing, collaborative teams?
Fear + Futility = Culture Killers
A sure sign of a troubled team culture is when team members fear challenging each other and feel it pointless to do so.
Discipline = M + C
To create a culture of high performing, collaborative teams requires discipline. Talent is no guarantee of sustainable success.
Fear of success
Much has been spoken and written about the fear of failure but less about the fear of success.
The key to differentiating a leadership group from a leadership team
(Originally published in CEO World on 31 March 2022)