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We won’t be going back to normal! (And what do to about it)
“When things get back to normal, we will …” Sorry to disappoint you - things won’t be going back to normal. They can’t. We have changed, our organisations have changed, the world has changed. There will be a ‘normal’, but we won’t be going ‘back’ to it. It will be a...
You are different at work (and I don’t like you as much)
Funny things can happen when work moves fair and square into the centre of your home life – funny things that trigger awareness and offer new choices! Mason and his partner Allison have very different occupations, and have had no involvement in each other’s...
Is it hard for leaders to change their style?
Recently I was talking with the company directors of a bank about Fearless Leadership®. One of the directors asked ‘Is it hard for leaders to change their style? After all you are dealing with executives – senior people who have enjoyed significant success through...
6 ways to keep your team together when you are apart
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...
We need Fearless Leadership® now more than ever
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...
Warning: The strengths of your leadership team could be your downfall
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...
The bad leader checklist
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...
Fearless Leadership teams have Cabinet Solidarity
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...
6 team leadership strategies that work by Glenn Cullen
Article by Glenn Cullen published in CPA Australia "In The Black", 01 February 2020
We don’t know what we don’t know
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...