Curiosity creates relationships. It brings people together—it doesn’t kill cats. In the September 2018 Harvard Business Review, Professor Francesca Gino summarises the benefits of curiosity as fewer decision-making errors, more innovative and positive changes, reduced group conflict, open communication, and better performance. My focus with leaders is typically on the last two. As leaders, when...
It’s the end of the year… Time to wrap up this year and prepare for the New Year. Even as we rush around to get things ‘done before Christmas’, it’s also a time for reflection. This year instead of ‘gifts’ for you, I am offering to ‘take’ things from you. My intention is to leave...
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Towards the end of each year the Australian Institute of Company Directors provides a ‘Essential Director Update’, summarizing the key issues and events from that year, and forecasting the likely themes for the coming year. In the recent 2018 briefing, Graham Bradley’s wide ranging and thought-provoking address included the implications for directors of CBA APRA Prudential Inquiry, Banking Royal Commission, Shareholder Activism and more....
Some of the key reasons people give for bringing more coaching skills into their leadership style are to build engagement, increase accountability and reducing day-to-day focus to be more strategic....
What does it mean to be Fearless Leadership team? Why does that matter? And how do we build a Fearless Leadership team?...