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3 Different Approach to Managing Return to the Office
There was no playbook for the rapid exit from the office we made in March 2020. We did what we could as quickly as we could (or faster!) and then patched things up and learned as we went along. Now…. Once again… There is no playbook for returning to the physical...
Stop the CEO Being a Victim of Their Own Strengths
Your role as an executive includes leading your division, developing your people, and working with your executive colleagues to make organisational decisions. One role that is not often mentioned is to stop the CEO being victim of their own strengths. Victim of their...
Would You Speak Out?
Lucas is ambitious. Currently a senior leader, he aims to achieve an executive position in the next two years. He is well regarded and owns his strengths, and yet still describes himself as a ‘reasonably anxious person’. He is aware of his development gaps and is...
You get to choose what you don’t have time for
The executive team sits around the board table. (The sounds like the set up for a joke, doesn’t it??? It’s not – it’s a common situation.) So again… The executive team sits around the board table. All agree that the pressure feels unrelenting, and the additional...
Holidays, COVID, loss of a friend. Welcome to 2022!
Welcome to 2022! My hope is that you have had a refreshing break over the summer period. My year started brilliantly with a 3-week family holiday in Tasmania – food, art, mountains, beaches… Wonderful… Closely followed by the whole family getting COVID (despite all...
My 5 Christmas Wishes for You 2021
Christmas is traditionally a time of giving, and as we approach the end of another challenging year, I have gathered together five special gifts for your Christmas stocking. I hope you enjoy them, and are inspired to share them with your colleagues, friends and...
How Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year relates to leadership
Cambridge Dictionary’s word of 2021 is - drum roll please - perseverance. Not for the reasons you may be thinking… It’s not COVID related, although it could be… The high number of dictionary searches related to NASA’s Perseverance Rover which landed on Mars 18...
How courageous is the leadership team you are part of?
Of the 7 dimensions of a Fearless Leadership Team, ‘courage’ is that one that executives typically self-rate the lowest. My executive team always makes courageous leadership decisions. YES / NO If I was to ask you that question, how would you respond? What would your...
Say ‘no’ to keep resentment out of the leadership team
When was the last time you said ‘yes’ to something, when you really wanted to say no? Maybe you didn’t have time to take it on, perhaps the project better fitted with someone else’s portfolio, maybe it was something you just don’t like doing…. And yet you heard...
Are you doing the work of the CEO?
‘I’m quite happy to do it.’ And she was. Bree cares about her people and is very conscious of not overloading her executive team. She is happy to do things herself, despite her big workload load and the fact that she isn’t able to get onto the more strategic things on...