120 seconds - that is all it will take to change your day. 2 minutes to check - have you fallen into the ‘urgent and important trap’? Are you in control of your day or are your urgent tasks controlling you?Recent changes to work arrangements have taught us anything, is that how we structure our time is actually more flexible than many of us thought (and that many things touted as both ur...

Wednesday is all about gratitude at IMLD. A big thank you Billy Sullivan from Grease Monkey Games for the lovely recommendation of your coaching experience with Michael Peiniger - it is always a pleasure to work dedicated leaders seeking to take themselves and their teams to new levels!  #leadership #coaching #leadershipdevelopment #developingleaders #gratitude...

Speaking and listening are basic human skills, but in a leadership sense, we expect so much more from our leaders than the basics. In our recent review of Velocity Leadership CheckPoint results, Active Listening rated the lowest of the 25 rated leadership skills. I believe that active listening scored so low amongst leaders for several reason, but most often, because leaders listen t...

What is one thing that CEOs, leaders, managers, supervisors and small business owners have in common? When they are trying to work out why their team is not performing at the level it could (and should), they often go looking in the wrong place. They know the signs and the symptoms - tasks not being completed on time, a culture that doesn't feel 'quite right', large turnovers of staf...

When it comes to the leadership skills and behaviours of Australian leaders, those related to communicating and understanding team members, as well as the ability to say no rated as the poorest, in a recent review of our Velocity Leadership CheckPoint results. The CheckPoint is our leadership profile tool used to rate leaders current behaviours against 25 different behaviours. In our rev...

In your opinion, what leadership skill / behaviour needs the MOST improvement from Australian leaders in 2020? Responsibility? Accountability? Empathy? Time Management? Using results from our CheckPoint profiling tool over the 2 years, we have been able to rate the best and worst leadership skills of Australian leaders. Tomorrow, we will share the bottom 5.🤔What do you think th...

We have all worked for a leader or manager that made us want to leave, but have you worked for a leader or manager that made you want to stay? 🙋🏻‍♂️As a leader and manager, are you displaying the types of behaviours that want your team to stay and work with you? Do you know what they are? It is worth asking your team what they value from your (a leaders) behaviour - they may have expe...