Leadership Program Testimonial – Loryn Chaplin
A huge thank you to Loryn Chaplin for recent testimonial following our recent…
Cultural Silos – 4 Reasons For Them and 6 Ways Leaders Can Break Them Down
When it comes to leading managing the dynamics of the people in your…
Leadership & Executive Coaching Clients – Thank You
A huge thank you to our leadership and executive coaching clients for your…
Team Leadership: What Would You Rate Your Team Right Now?
When it comes to team leadership, performance, cohesion and trust, what would you…
Leadership is an Identifiable Set of Skills and Abilities
Leadership is not a birthright and it is not something passed from one…
Great Leaders Are Great Simplifiers – What are you simplifying today?
Great leaders are great simplifiers. What can you take control of this morning…
Small Business Leadership: How To Hire Right This Holiday Season For High Performance
I had the chance last week to sit down with Jenn Donovan from…
Learning On The Lead – Lesson 3. Leadership Lessons Learnt With Mans Best Friend
You Need To Protect Your Team From Outside Forces
Being the leader of a team brings with it certain responsibilities. The responsibility and accountability of leading others is one of the greatest privileges that can be asked of a person. It can also be one of the greatest challenges.
Developing High Performing Teams
It takes a little bit more than motivation to develop a team from average, to good, to high performing. In this Youtube discussion with Mat Bankes of The Daily Bee, Michael will cover off the 5 areas of focus that can help develop your team to high-performance
Learning On The Lead – Lesson 2. Leadership Lessons Learnt With Mans Best Friend
You Need To Protect Your Team From Outside Forces
Being the leader of a team brings with it certain responsibilities. The responsibility and accountability of leading others is one of the greatest privileges that can be asked of a person. It can also be one of the greatest challenges.
When Developing Leadership, Integrity is NOT Everything
A recent Linkedin group discussion asked: ‘Given that most of us can master any skill we choose to, with the right support and experience, what makes us attribute ‘high potential’ to some people and not to others?’
I think this is a great question and pertinent to all businesses. I have rated someone as ‘high potential’ when they:
Cultural ’Silo’s’ Damage Your Team & Business Culture – 6 Reasons For Them And How to Address Them
‘There are so many silo’s in our business – we don’t seem to get anything done. We spend all of our time working around people instead of just getting the job done’
Does this sound familiar?
I was recently asked by an MD of a large manufacturing business to help them ‘with their teamwork’. When he mentioned the dreaded word ‘silo’ and ‘negative culture’ in the same sentence, I could see that the people dynamic of his business had become difficult to manage and inefficient – hardly what he expected when he started growing the business 3 years before.
Leadership Assessment Tool: What Makes the Velocity Leadership CheckPoint Unique?
The Velocity Leadership Checkpoint is just that – it is an opportunity to see how your leadership performing at a moment in time.
The Top 25 Leadership Behaviours That Define Great Leaders
Everybody defines leadership differently. Irrespective of how you define a leader, they can not only make the difference between success and failure, they can make the different between good performance and excellence.
5 Leadership Development Lessons Business Can Learn From The Military
More often than not, business leaders wait too long to identify, nurture and develop leaders in their business. By the time most businesses consider leadership development training, poor communication, values and behaviours have become so ingrained it can be hard to undo. These mistakes can hamstring both the individuals development and the businesses future. I believe there are 5 lessons managers could learn from leadership development in the military.