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How Leaders Can Save Themselves From Drowning

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Save Leaders from Drowning

  Some time back I wrote an article How Organisations Can Save Leaders From Drowning.  In this I spoke of things organisations can do to raise the chances that leaders will be able to stay afloat in their demanding roles. Since then the circumstances for leaders have become even more challenging.  Complexity and volume have […]

Filed Under: Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership, Health, Happiness

It’s time to lower our expectations of leaders

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expectations of leaders

Lately our expectations of leaders have gone through the roof. We expect leaders to be strong and brave and kind and calm and smart and curious and inspiring and consistent and composed and knowledgeable and organised and compassionate and friendly and attentive and vulnerable and outgoing and innovative and confident and resilient and driven and […]

Filed Under: Followership, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership

Leadership in the Time of Coronavirus

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When I was 8 years old the world was gravely concerned about the prospect of a nuclear war, as global superpowers the USA and USSR were locked in a Cold War staredown. Then, when I was 28, approaching the year 2000, there were serious worries about the Y2K computer bug, which some experts said would […]

Filed Under: Capable Leaders, Human Workplaces Tagged With: Leadership, Human Workplace

Want to Be a Better Leader? Stop Doing These 18 Things

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There are plenty of things that can hold high potential leaders back from achieving the level of impact they are capable of.  Based on my experience observing leaders, working for leaders, coaching leaders and also being a leader myself I’ve identified a number of frequent blocks to progress. If you want to be a better […]

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership

7 Questions to Help Leaders Find Clarity

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Leaders Find Clarity

One of the main differences between the very best leaders and the others is their level of clarity.  Effective leaders are clear about a lot of things, including who they are and what they represent.  This helps them spend their time and energy in beneficial ways, and they come across as compelling and congruent to […]

Filed Under: Personal Effectiveness, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership

How Organisations Can Save Leaders From Drowning

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Save Leaders from Drowning

  Managers and leaders really do have a lot on their plates in this fast-paced, complex, rapidly changing world.  The situation has become so extreme that plenty of leaders are at serious risk of drowning.   Each day, in organisations around the world, the people who are entrusted to manage and lead face a lot.  They have […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership, Health

Feedback: A Gift Leaders Need to Ask For

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Christmas has recently come and gone and if this is an occasion you celebrate you probably got a few presents.  You didn’t have to ask people to give you anything.  They just gave you gifts because that’s the way these occasions work (and hopefully because they like you). Feedback is also a gift, especially for leaders.  Actually, it’s […]

Filed Under: Capable Leaders, Better Learning Tagged With: Learning, Leadership

Yes it is Lonely At the Top (But it Doesn’t Have to Be)

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When we commence our careers we usually work in the fat bit of the organisational structure triangle, somewhere near the bottom, where it’s anything but lonely.  Everywhere we look there are people we can talk to, people to ask questions of, people to have a whinge with and people to share a laugh with.  Very […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Capable Leaders, Human Workplaces Tagged With: Happiness, Relationships, Leadership, Human Workplace

2 Golden Rules for Influencing Behaviour

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golden rules influence

  Influencing people to take positive actions is an important aspect of leadership and it’s an important aspect of life.  We use this skill in all sorts of instances: Maybe you’ve had to influence an employee in your team to change a behavior. Maybe you’ve needed to influence a customer to take some action or […]

Filed Under: Customer Service, Change Management, Personal Effectiveness, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Relationships, Leadership

Followership – Leadership’s Less Famous Sibling

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There’s an enormous amount of focus on leadership, and this is understandable.  Good leaders make a huge difference as they improve organisations and the wider world, while bad leaders can leave an ugly mark of bad results and damaged people.  There’s much, much less focus on followership, about 1000 times less it would seem!  My […]

Filed Under: Career Guidance, Personal Effectiveness, Followership, Capable Leaders Tagged With: Leadership, Success, Teams

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