As leaders (and as humans) we have high standards and a clear vision for what we want to achieve, so it can be easy for us to notice what’s not going right. What we focus on determines what we get. It’s a mistake to focus on what’s not going well, or behaviour in others we
Is it time for you to step up and be YOUR brilliant self? Ralph Waldo Emerson once said ‘To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.’ Ari* leads a team of forty, has incredible technical skills and yet people don’t feel they know him.
Last weekend when facilitating a leadership retreat in Warrnambool for Leadership Great South Coast, I was introduced to the term ‘assumicide’. My workshop participants talked about assumicide in the context of leadership and: The dangers of ‘first impressions’ The potential damage done by demographic stereotyping Assumptions we make about someone’s background or their capacity to
There’s a lot of talk about engagement, and the enhanced productivity that is unleashed through an engaged workforce. I think engagement has a lot to do with purpose, and our connection to ‘why’. Typically, the closer we are to the top of the organisational hierarchy, the more we understand the purpose, and how our work