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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...
For you I wish these 7 gifts for Christmas
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...
What impacts psychological safety in your team?
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,...
Are we there yet?
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...
The danger of weaponising values
If I were to ask you about your organisation’s values, how would you respond? Can you remember them? Do you endorse them? Do you live them? How well do they align with your own values? Recently a client was talking about the challenge of people ‘weaponising values’....
How to create a perfect team
What’s your idea of the ‘perfect team’? Do you have that now? Recently I was working with an executive team - the second workshop of a 12-month Fearless Leadership® program. The energy in the room was great, and there had been a shift over the 8 weeks since the...