“What a ridiculous thing to say”, said the earnest Executive. This is serious business! As experienced leaders and professional experts our comfort zone is typically the established operating models. Leveraging what we have been taught. Maintaining executive presence. Leading the room. Being ‘in control’. In a time when we hear every day of unprecedented conditions in our world, when even Read More
I have been talking with a lot of people committed to positive transformation from this challenging period – all sorts of Chief’s, Directors, Strategy Consultants, Leaders of People and Culture. There is a lot on the move and most of us are still sorting through trying to navigate what is immediately in front of us. Read More
– Now is the time to provide space for ‘feed-forward’ with your teams There is a lot going on adapting to immediate constraints, gaps, and changes. Online meetings, check-ins, chase-ups, emails, watching the news and following social media updates, immediate corrective actions, response plans, revising plans. It is a cycle we can get caught in, week on Read More
Creating psychological safety is a critical leadership energy in delivering traction of strategic objectives and building change-fitness. An interesting observation talking with more and more leaders about Traction in their strategic programs and the leadership energy required to create psychological safety as a foundational phase – particularly for organisational leadership teams low in change-fitness is Read More
How you got here no longer matters. Navigating this 12 months we are all transformation leaders. The one key switch in priority The three steps you must lead this Quarter to navigate to July 2021 “It’s not what I signed up for!” blurted my exhausted friend and senior leader. It’s gruelling and not letting up. Read More
Adding simple diagnostics to our repertoire is empowering and essential to navigating increasingly dynamic times. Read on how listening for these words can be a tell-tale diagnostic tool in complex adaptive systems for: Board Directors CEOs Executives Operational leaders In these times of turbulence and uncertainty, we are all thrust into trying to understand and Read More
Peter, the CEO stopped the discussion and said “I don’t want us to be that team. I do not want to be Boss Hogg.” Boss Hogg from the 1980s TV series The Dukes of Hazzard was always confident he was in-charge, yet somehow every episode he and his Deputies end up in a wild car chase, Read More
Remaining true to a powerful ‘Why” is not easy. It requires looking at the next horizon and being fit for what that takes. Many organisations, across Not for Profit, Public Sector, and the Profit Sector, have been founded on a purposeful ‘why’. Reflecting for a moment most leadership teams can connect their organisations with a Read More
Recently I was talking with other leaders that have led through a number of business cycles including DISRUPTED periods and there was strong agreement that having this awareness of time perspectives mis-match would have dramatically reduced a lot of stress for all of us and improved traction navigating challenging times. Fascinatingly, the time perspectives mis-match Read More
