Blog tag: leadership

Creative people are often complex, and come with complex issues. It’s part of what makes them great at what they do – but not always easy to manage. Getting top creative talent to work well together calls for an understanding of their motivations and their behaviours. By creative, we mean…

This is a common dilemma we hear from many excellent CEOs. They are stuck in a conflict between caring for their staff and wanting them to deliver. That’s probably why we are often asked ‘What is the sweet spot where people are performing at their best without negative consequences for…

The impact of COVID-19 has presented many people with unexpected professional and personal challenges. In just a few weeks, the landscape of work and life has changed in ways that are yet to fully unravel. While lockdown and furloughing have been an uncertain time, it’s also created the space to…

We are living and working in an increasingly unknown territory. No one quite knows how the COVID-19 virus will play out in the long run but what is becoming increasingly clear is this – many organisations are on the edge of mandatory working from home. This is going to test…

Innovation comes with an opinion – but does your culture welcome that, or stifle it? The term ‘psychological safety’ has become a bit of a buzzword in recent years. Research has concluded that a lot of organisations don’t have it and what’s more, there’s a positive correlation between it and…

You’ve invested a huge amount of time and resources hiring the best people, you’ve got them in the right roles and are rewarding them well for their contribution – but you just don’t seem to be getting the success you’d anticipated. We hear this from CEOs a lot, especially in innovative…

We’ve all seen emotions displayed at work. As humans, it’s almost impossible to hide our emotions and often they can be a good thing – showing positive emotions at work can be highly motivating and engaging. However, with emotions, there’s a downside too. Emotions can cause disproportionate reactions to events…

People who are motivated to achieve are always looking to improve, drive quality and love getting stuck into complex problems. They are also notoriously bad at self care which over time can become a problem because this group of people is more prone to exhaustion, overwhelm and burnout because of…

Stressful life events don’t have to be work-related to impact on performance or the workplace. It’s human nature to be affected by the challenging events that life can bring our way. Unfortunately, taking them into work is often unavoidable. As leaders know, when someone in your team is experiencing one…

The four stages of team development by Bruce Tuckman is a core management model most leaders are familiar with. Teams start by ‘Forming’ and then go through a series of stages that eventually see them arrive at ‘Performing’ – with the advantages of being self-motivated, autonomous and competent. It’s always…