How do you feel when you hear negative feedback about your behaviour? Especially when the complaint comes from the person you feel is at fault? As a leader, you are expected to role model certain behaviours. But this isn’t easy when team members speak over you or appear to challenge your authority in front of…
We’ve all been to meetings where everyone sits around the table, staring at their papers, just waiting to get things over with and get out of the room. Meetings like this are transactional and impersonal. With a packed agenda, they become rigid and inflexible, often running over and leading to a mass exodus as everyone…
Something I’ve noticed when working with leaders in coaching or facilitated sessions is our natural tendency to focus outside ourselves. We spend all our time concentrating on the things that are visible to others – our behaviour, language or body language – but not really noticing what’s going on inside. Recently, a client described a…
An issue I’m hearing from many of the senior leaders I work with is how some of their staff are just ‘turning up’ for work. They don’t really seem interested in their work; they walk around in a robotic fashion, and just seem to go through the motions until it’s time to go home. They…
Have you ever tried to introduce a new way of working, only to experience a strong resistance from your team? During the last few leadership development programmes I’ve facilitated, this problem has shown up as a common theme. All fired up with their new learning, the leaders enthusiastically dove into their new questioning style with…
Recently, I was working with a group of senior leaders who all expressed their frustration about the lack of engagement with staff. This was particularly noticeable during meetings, where the conversations were all one way and despite asking open questions to engage staff, they felt they just weren’t getting anywhere. In my experience, when staff…
Have you ever felt like you: Were just going through the motions? Stuck in a rut? Had nothing to aim for? Didn’t know what to do next? Didn’t have the courage to do anything? Wanted something different from now, but didn’t know what that was? Well, I met 6 women who felt just like this,…
Are you just too busy? Have you ever: Chased around endlessly? Thought ‘I just don’t seem to stop’? Wondered where the time goes? Felt exhausted from rushing from one thing to another? If the answer is yes, I can relate to you because that was me some time ago. That’s before someone asked me a…
Looking for some focus? Have you ever wanted to focus your mind, but you: Had such a crazy day, you can’t think straight? Had too much detail racing around in your head, that you lose focus? Felt so busy rushing from one task to another, but didn’t achieve your goals? Had lots of distractions and…
