Leading a team in a time of crisis takes more thought than usual. The environment is changing rapidly and there’s high uncertainty. Fear can be contagious. Your people are at greater risk of disconnecting and disengaging. Recent studies from neuroscience have shown that for our physical health, social connection is just as important as emotional...
Fearless Leadership® is not the absence of fear, it’s noticing the fear and using it as data. Noticing what you are afraid of and why… Noticing how you feel… Observing the behaviour of others and checking in on how they feel. In the age of COVID-19 there’s a lot of fear… Fear for ourselves and...
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 sometimes wonder if you are bad leader? Do you see ‘leaders’ around you and wonder ‘is that really how it should be done?’ We have all experienced them, and maybe it’s a bit like driving… We all think we are above average drivers, and yet if we are, who are the 50% that...
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....
Article by Glenn Cullen published in CPA Australia “In The Black”, 01 February 2020...