25Feb

Is Your Team Performance At The Right Level?

Is your team performance at the right level? Does your team perform at altitude? Do they lift you up or pull you down? It takes something to ensure that both you and your team fly at Altitude. What is Altitude? It is your teams performance.

If you have a great team – good individual performers that work together, positive culture and supportive of each other) the team will fly higher in performance. Because of that positive energy (that you may have helped create) you will fly higher as well.

Team Performance Is The Responsibility Of The Leader

If you have an under performing team (a negative individual, a poor performing individual, culture of ‘every person for themselves’, no support and general negativity) the team will perform poorly. Because of the negative energy and performance, it takes much more effort for you to perform well.

There is always room to fly higher. A small increase in Altitude can have a lasting impact on your team members and on the performance of your team.

Your team altitude is determined by:

  • How well your hold your team to account (Accountability),
  • How well you listen to what they have to say (Active Listening skills),
  • How well you articulate what it is you need (Verbal Communication),
  • The level of care and understanding you have of your team members (Empathy), and
  • Your ability to provide clear and consistent feedback regarding performance and behaviour (Constructive Feedback).

What is your Altitude?

To find out, follow the link to our Altitude quiz. It will help you determine whether you are in a dive, cruising or performing at altitude.

We believe that ‘Everyone Deserves to Work For a Great Leader’ and ‘Everyone Deserves to Be Part Of A Great Team’

Looking to Build and Develop a High Performing Team?

The IMLD High-Performance Team (HPT) Workshops are designed for established leadership teams to focus on becoming a high-performing team demonstrating optimal team performance. The HPT workshops are focussed on developing leaders that build and lead high-performing teams that deliver improved business outcomes. HPT workshops are focussed on building velocity your business; more than speed, it is about building speed with direction that is built to last.

If this sounds like something that would benefit your team, reach out to us today.

24Feb

Thank You – It Takes A Village

An old African proverb states that ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ could be amended for small businesses – ‘it takes a collection of great business owners to raise a business’. We have been very fortunate to work with some great fellow small businesses and owners that help us at Institute of Management & Leadership Development achieve what we do and we wanted to say thank you.

Like so many businesses, it wasn’t always so; we have placed trust in those we shouldn’t have, spent more than we should have on services that didn’t deliver. Thankfully that is no longer that case.

We are grateful for the products, service, coaching, advice and assistance of the following people that helped us in 2020 and continue in 2021:
Jenn Donovan at Social Media & Marketing Australia
Stuart Smith at Fiscal Artisans
Evan Spargo, PCC at Coach Masters Academy
Bethany Whitters at Strategic Surveys
Brad Hauck at MWM
Hannah Nicholls at Rooftop Media

Thank you to the great small business owners that support other small business owners, and to the myriad of clients that I have had the privilege of coaching, teaching, facilitating and debriefing in the last 12 months in Melbourne and Victoria. Thanks also to those that have taken the time to express their gratitude in the form of a LinkedIn recommendation or Google review – they make the world of difference in our world.

xxx

#gratitude #IMLD #developingleaders #melbournebusiness #smallbusinesscoaching #smallbusinessmatters #smallbusinessmelbourne

22Feb

Workshop 2 – Diploma of Leadership and Management

‘What makes a leadership and management training workshop successful?’ was the key question at the completion of Workshop 2 – Diploma of Leadership and Management.

Aside from great content, dynamic facilitators and experiential activities (img role= img role= ), working with leaders that are inquisitive, focussed on learning, willing to share their experiences and actively listening to each other makes all the difference.

We had the privilege of facilitating Workshop 2 of the Diploma of Leadership & Management with leaders from Lyondellbasell last Friday, focussing on the competency unit ‘Develop and use emotional intelligence’. A great learning environment generated by the people in the room, punctuated by inquisitive minds looking to understand more about themselves, their teams and how team relationships work.

While facilitating this Diploma unit, we also realised how essential it is to assess and evaluate leadership skills and behaviours before, during and at completion of larger leadership training programs. This is where the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint came to the fore. Not only could we measure and debrief all of the participants one on one prior to the ‘Develop and use emotional intelligence’ unit (making many of the Q&A assessments much easier), we could focus discussion and attention on particular behaviour traits within the CheckPoint, such as:

  • Align – Commitment
  • Align – Resilience
  • Align – Transparent
  • Aware – Clarity / Reflection
  • Aware – Self Awareness
  • Aware – Confidence
  • Aware – Assertiveness
  • Aware – Personal Fulfilment
  • Altitude – Active Listening
  • Altitude – Empathy
  • Adapt – Adaptability
  • Adapt – Influence
  • Adapt – Dependability

Not only did this focus discussion in the workshop, it allowed us (and the participants) to check their emotional intelligence strengths and weaknesses in a safe learning environment, both one on one and in the small group setting.

Would You Like To Gain Similar Insights? The Velocity Leadership CheckPoint Is The Start

If you are unsure of your impact on your leader / team, perhaps you should complete the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint? 25 behavioural leadership traits, focussed in 5 distinct leadership capabilities – a ‘must know’ for any leader or team looking to drive high performance. If you haven’t completed the CheckPoint, get in touch with us today to arrange an appointment. Read through the comments and feedback from those that have – many say that it has had a profound effect on how they lead and perform within a team.

#Diploma #IMLD #leadership #management #leadershipdevelopment #developingleaders

17Feb

Leadership Assessment Tool – Ruma Dak Testimonial, IAG

Completing a leadership assessment tool is the first step to understanding your leadership strengths and development opportunities. We are very grateful to Ruma Dak (she/her) for her very kind recommendation following completion of the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint and debrief.

‘I recently did the Velocity Leadership Checkpoint Assessment which was very comprehensive and covered 25 Leaderships behaviours across the five Capabilities. The Assessment report gave me deep and meaningful insights, both at a personal and professional level. But the highlight for me was the debrief and results analysis session I had with Michael following the survey. Michael shared the information very candidly with me as per my request and helped me identify tangible actions to hone my leadership skills. Michael was very professional and thorough in the entire session and made me feel at ease! He patiently answered all my questions and challenged me to explore the results further. It was a pleasure working with Michael! I would highly recommend the Velocity Leadership Checkpoint Assessment if you want to increase your self-awareness as a leader or help develop other leaders at your organisation.’

Ruma Dak, IAG

When you are looking to understand your leadership behaviours and capabilities, the CheckPoint is the perfect place to start. Michael Peiniger and the team at Institute of Management & Leadership Development are highly skilled at provided clear, concise, practical and helpful insights to assist in your leadership development and taking the next step.
Thank you Ruma! It is a pleasure to work with passionate leaders such as yourself.

Check Out our other Recommendations and Testimonials Here

Would You Like To Gain Similar Insights to Ruma? The Velocity Leadership CheckPoint Is The Start

Leadership Assessment Tool

If you are unsure of your impact on your leader / team, perhaps you should complete the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint? 25 behavioural leadership traits, focussed in 5 distinct leadership capabilities – a ‘must know’ for any leader or team looking to drive high performance. If you haven’t completed the CheckPoint, get in touch with us today to arrange an appointment. Read through the comments and feedback from those that have – many say that it has had a profound effect on how they lead and perform within a team.

16Feb

Diploma of Leadership and Management – New Program

I’m genuinely excited to be part of this new Diploma of Leadership and Management program! Workshop 2 of the In-House program kicks off this Friday focussing on Developing and Using Emotional Intelligence – focussing on self-awareness and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of individual leadership.


We make things a little more practical and a little more personal than your regular Diploma – because that is how you develop leaders. Last week and this week I have been working one-on-one with the participants, debriefing their Velocity Leadership CheckPoint results and setting their ‘baseline’ leadership behaviours.


This Diploma is about developing skills and behaviours as well as providing an accreditation – so providing in depth analysis and feedback on leadership strengths, advice, processes and practical tips for overcoming areas of weakness is part of the learning process.

IMLD Diploma of Leadership and Management
IMLD Diploma of Leadership and Management


‘Great leaders are humble learners’ – and we are blessed at Institute of Management & Leadership Development to work with some great learning leaders.

IMLD DIPLOMA OF LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS

IMLDs leadership programs provide leaders with knowledge, behaviour and practical skills required to lead and adapt to a changing work environment. Irrespective of where you are staring from – brand new to leadership or s seasoned professional – IMLD leadership programs have something for you to continue your leadership development journey. From the Emerging Leaders Program, to the Executive Leadership Program and the Diploma of Leadership and Management, there is a leadership program designed to take your skills to the next level. If this sounds like it could be useful for you or members of your team, get in touch with us today.


#Diploma #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #management #leadershipskills #IMLD #developingleaders

15Feb

Everyone Deserves To Work For A Great Leader? Will You Become One Of Them?

Everyone deserves to work for a great leader. You know the type of leader that I am talking about.

  • Someone who has a passion for what they do – so much so that it becomes infectious and others ‘just want to be around them’.
  • The type of person that takes the time to get to know you and what you want to achieve, then helps you to try and achieve them.
  • The person that leads by example and works hard, and pushes the team around them to work just as hard for the good of the business.
  • The person who is not afraid to have a tough conversation when it is warranted, will say sorry and apologise when it is needed, and praise when it is deserved.
  • The type pf person that adapts to what their teams needs and provides what they can’t provide for themselves, rather than just want they want to provide.
  • The person that takes a little more of the responsibility and a little less of the credit.

Will you become the type of leader that everyone wants to work for? What steps are you taking to achieve it? Who is helping you on the path to becoming a great leader (because we all know you don’t need to do it on your own)?

Great Leaders - 'Be the leader everyone respects and wants to work for'
‘Be the leader everyone respects and wants to work for’

Don’t Know Where to Start? The Velocity Leadership CheckPoint is the Place

Do you know the impact you have on your leader and / or team?

If you are unsure of your impact on your leader / team, perhaps you should complete the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint? 25 behavioural leadership traits, focussed in 5 distinct leadership capabilities – a ‘must know’ for any leader or team looking to drive high performance. If you haven’t completed the CheckPoint, get in touch with us today to arrange an appointment. Read through the comments and feedback from those that have – many say that it has had a profound effect on how they lead and perform within a team.

Executive Leadership Coaching

Focussed, personal, confidential, honest and practical – all words that have been used in testimonials to describe the Institute of Management & Leadership Development’s Executive Leadership Coaching. If this sounds like something that could be useful for you or a member of your team, get in touch with us today for a confidential chat about your needs.

11Feb

Are You Behaving Like The Leader You Wish You Had When You Started?

Are you behaving like the leader you wish you had when you started? Do you remember your first leader / manager? Some of us were lucky enough to have that boss – the person that inspired us and we wanted to be like – I was gifted with 2 early in my career. Others weren’t so lucky – they inspired themselves by seeking to be the opposite of the poor leader that they worked for early on.


Either way – remember the image , the values and the behaviours of that person that you wanted to be – NOW GO AND BE THAT PERSON. Be the leader you wish you had when you started.


Being the leader that inspires others, coaches others, provides guidance and assurance to others – that is what is needed right now. You might have more of those qualities than you think.
If you want to be THAT leader for your team, your business, you know where to start.

10Feb

Executive Leadership Coaching – Bryony Bennett Testimonial

‘It took me a while to find a leadership coach I wanted to work with, and I feel incredibly lucky to have come across Michael, who has the right mix between personable but professional and supportive but honest feedback. At first I knew there were areas I wanted to work on, but I couldn’t put my finger on what they were. Michael not only helped me identify these areas, but then grounded and rooted me in my own values, strengths and purpose which has helped realign me with my own goals and direction. “

09Feb

Could Your Leadership be More Efficient & Effective?

Could your leadership be more efficient and effective? More specifically – are you an efficient leader? Are you an effective leader? How personally efficient are you as a leader? How do rate against the Personal Efficiency Model shown above?

What choice with you make today? Responsible, accountable and with clear intentions, or blame, excuses, leniency and defence?
Personal leadership, team leadership and business leadership is all about making choices – which choices you make will determine how hard you have to work and how ‘personally efficient’ you are.
What is personal efficiency? It is no wasted effort.
Personally efficient people create clear intentions for themselves, hold others to account for their actions and hold themselves personally accountable for theirs. When they go ‘off track’, they correct quickly and change their behaviour. They don’t accept blame, excuses or leniency from themselves. In short, personally efficient people set clear intentions for themselves and then do what they set out to do?
Could you be more personally efficient?

Related Leadership Articles:

Does Blame tarnish Your Leadership Ability?

The Standard You Walk past Is The Standard You Accept

#leadership #leadershipdevelopment #coaching #management #IMLD #developingleaders

08Feb

Leaders Push Through The Discomfort Of Difficult Conversations

Do your leaders shy away from having difficult conversations or hard conversations because they make them uncomfortable? What is the impact on you (and on the person you are avoiding) by letting this discomfort rule their behaviour?

No one likes difficult conversations. Good leaders understand the importance of them and the need to keep themselves, their team and their business on track – which sometimes involves a difficult conversation. Every person can ‘drift’ away from what is needed, and an open, clear and honest conversation regarding expectations and meeting them is often required.

Many leaders find these conversations uncomfortable – for themselves or for the other person – and so let the behaviour ‘drift’. The behaviour repeats, gets worse – so does the size of the conversation – so does the avoidance of the issue. Sound familiar?

Good leaders don’t like difficult conversations, but they accept the necessity of them and don’t shy away from their responsibility to have them.

#difficultconversations#leadership#coaching#managers#IMLD#developingleaders

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The Way Forward

If you struggle with difficult conversations but understand the importance of having them (for you and for your team members), it might be time to get in touch with an expert who can guide you through. Our Executive Coaches with extensively with leaders, managers and small business owners looking to improve their (and their teams) behaviour, with one aspect being how to prepare for a deliver a difficult conversation. Another way to perform better in difficult conversations is to attend one of our highly rated workshops:

Performance Management Essentials – for having difficult conversations within a structured or formal setting, or

Difficult Conversations In The Workplace for practical tips, solutions and practice

Related IMLD Posts and Articles:

Does Any Leader Like Having Difficult Conversations

Looking To Avoid Big, Difficult Conversations? Have More Small Ones

Only Practice Builds Confidence With Difficult Conversations

How to Have a Difficult Conversation at Work

04Feb

Leadership Is All About Team Trust and Performance

Team trust and performance. For a team to perform at a high level, the team needs to trust the leader as much as the leader trusts the team. A break down on either side of this trust equation results in poorer performance. High Performing businesses have developed a strong sense of trust between leader and team – a truly symbiotic relationship – which drives performance.

Leadership Role

In relation to the team, the leaders role is to provide guidance, coaching, energy and clarity when the team needs it. The key phrase here is ‘when the team needs it’. As a leader, one of the hardest lessons to learn is when to apply your will / drive / energy / purpose to the team, and when to provide the team the opportunity to provide those things for themselves. If the leader is only focussed on themselves, they can ‘over apply’ each of these traits, to the annoyance of the team.

The leader places a level of trust in the team when providing each of the listed behaviours – guidance, coaching, energy and clarity. They all take time and effort, and the leader needs to know that those efforts won’t be wasted. One of the key roles of a leader is to provide the team these behaviours when they can’t provide it for themselves – there needs to be a willingness on behalf of the leader to provide it, and a willingness on behalf of the team to accept it. An unwillingness from wither party will result in a lack of trust and poorer performance.

When a leader can’t (or won’t) provide these behaviours for the team, the team loses trust in the leader – which also affects performance. In this way, a high performing team has a truly ‘symbiotic’ relationship with each other – they help improve and sustain each others roles.

Questions: As a leader, team leader, supervisor, manager or small business owner:

  • Do you provide guidance on personal performance and role to your team members?
  • Do you coach your team members on how they can improve, as well as how they can maintain their strengths?
  • Is your energy and enthusiasm easily ‘caught’ by your team? Is your energy infectious? If so, is it raising your team up or pulling them down?
  • Do you provide role clarity and provide your leader with an understanding of their role in the team and / or business?

If you had to think hard on any of these questions, you could be doing more to improve the trust and performance of your team relationship.

Teams Role

Just as the leader has input into the teams performance, the team plays a crucial role in the leaders performance – a role that is often forgotten or overlooked.

The team provides the leader support, feedback, energy and clarity when the leader needs it. Leaders aren’t superheroes – they are not and endless supply of energy and positivity – there are times when circumstances can get the down (just like team members). When this happens, high performing teams can fill the void and provide energy, support and feedback to the leader.

Teams that don’t do this demonstrate a lack of trust in the leader, which impacts both the performance of the leader and team. Again, the role of the team and leader is symbiotic – they help improve and sustain each others role.

Questions: As a team member, colleague or peer:

  • Do you provide support to your team leader in the form of encouragement or assistance?
  • Do you provide feedback to your leader on what they did well and what they could improve on?
  • Is your energy and enthusiasm easily ‘caught’ by your leader? Is your energy infectious? If so, is it raising your leader up or pulling them down?
  • Do you provide role clarity and provide your team with an understanding of their role in the team and / or business?

If you had to think hard on any of these questions, you could be doing more to improve the trust and performance of your leadership relationship.

What impact are you having on the team trust and performance of your team?

Further Thoughts

Do you know the impact you have on your leader and / or team?

If you are unsure of your impact on your leader / team, perhaps you should complete the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint? 25 behavioural leadership traits, focussed in 5 distinct leadership capabilities – a ‘must know’ for any leader or team looking to drive high performance. If you haven’t completed the CheckPoint, get in touch with us today to arrange an appointment. Read through the comments and feedback from those that have – many say that it has had a profound effect on how they lead and perform within a team.