24Jul

High Performance Team Workshop with Office Choice

One of the best parts of working in the leadership / team /culture space is that I get to work with some truly dedicated people seeking to make a positive change for their business.

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with the senior leadership team at Office Choice Ltd this week for the High Performance Teams workshop. These guys already perform at a strong level and wanted to challenge themselves to perform higher, looking at what crucial conversations and actions they can take to sustain behaviour at the top level.

Thank you Brad O’Brien, Jamie Keyzer, Cameron Osborne, David Williamson, Tilley Raftopoulos and Amanda Vaughan, it was an absolute joy to have worked with you all.

#leadership #crucialconversations #highperformanceteams #developingleaders

What can you start doing, stop doing, do more of or do less of for your team to be high performing?

12Jul

Performance Management Essentials – 12 July 2019

The Performance Management Essentials workshop is ‘what is old is new again’ moment for Kameleons – Developing Leaders. This workshop (in a previous format) was one of the first workshops that we offered publicly, before moving into working ‘in house’ and partnering with businesses almost 10 years ago.

We finally listened to what our coaching and leadership clients had been telling us again for the last few years and have started offering this workshop as a public workshop once again.

03Jul

Only Practice Builds Confidence With Difficult Conversations

It might seem obvious, but Performance Management conversations take practice. While they say that practice makes perfect, many managers, leaders and supervisors sorely lack the practice at deliveing targetted (often difficult but most often crucial) performance discussions at work. In most cases, it isn’t their fault. A series of external (business and training) and internal (thought processes) factors contribute greatly to a lack of skilled performance discussions.

01Jul

How To Have a Difficult Conversation at Work

Difficult conversations — whether you are telling an underperforming an employee that they need to do to improve, or advising your boss of a missed deadline — are part and parcel of being a leader, manager or supervisor. What is the best way to prepare for this type of conversation? What should you say (or not say)? How do you find the right words in the moment and be able to respond in an appropriate way if the person doesn’t agree or acknowledge what you have raised? And, how can you manage the ‘back and forth’ of the conversation so that it goes smoothly and you get the outcome you want?

01Jul

Why Do We Struggle With Performance Management & Difficult Conversations?

We surveyed over a hundred of our Performance Management Essentials workshop participants, and here are at the areas they struggled with in regards to performance management and having difficult / crucial conversations:

  • Not having confidence in being able to do it ‘right’ within HR limitations
  • Not knowing the ‘right’ words, and not wanting to cause offence
  • Not having a clear structure for the conversation