Just like an individual leader has a personality, a leadership team has a personality too, with strengths and weaknesses. The team strengths are assets we can leverage to support our success and the success of the whole organisation. There is a risk that when we dial up a strength too high, it becomes a weakness....
Do you recognize your leadership team in one of these three teams? 1. Simon’s Polite Exec When I first met Simon, he was leading an executive team where each exec was very ‘polite’ to one another. Discussions on important issues were usually brief, dissenting views were not surfaced, and ‘consensus’ was reached fairly quickly....
In 1997 Tiger Woods won The Masters by 12 shots, and then scrapped his record-breaking swing to come back two years later with what’s been referred to as ‘the best swing in the history of golf’. He’s continued to shake up his style over his career. Last year I pulled apart my coaching approach, laid...
At Christmas my thoughts turn to what the people around me might want and need for Christmas, as well as what surprises I could arrange… Here are the seven things I wish for you this Christmas. Confidence and courage to speak out for what’s right. It’s not easy to apply the ‘front of the...
Psychological safety is so important in teams, and especially in leadership teams because the top team sets the standard for the whole organisation. Amy C. Edmondson, in her book ‘The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth’ defines psychological safety as ‘the belief that the work environment is safe...
Have you ever travelled with children? (Or maybe you were one once!) What do they say, usually just after you have left home? ‘Are we there yet?’ When the question is repeated multiple times, even you might begin to feel like it’s a never-ending journey. Learning can be like that too. Do I know enough?...