Create a Positive Impact from Negative Feedback

Create a Positive Impact from Negative Feedback

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better Robin Sharma According to a study documented by the Harvard Business Review, 92% of the respondents agreed with the assertion, “Negative (redirecting) feedback, if delivered appropriately, is effective at improving performance. But, do you always get the performance improving impact you want from this uncomfortable discussion? If not, then today, I will share with…

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Are You A Single Point of Failure?

Are You A Single Point of Failure?

Are you struggling to find the time to train or coach your team to pick up the work they should be doing? The work you’re holding on to. Maybe it’s because you don’t want to miss a deadline, make mistakes, lose control or something else? Whatever the reason, let’s see how inaction could be impacting your team, the business, your…

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Working Relationships Saved My Career

Working Relationships Saved My Career

I guarantee at some point in the future that a working relationship will save your career and leadership reputation. There will be a career-limiting issue you cannot solve without the help of others. The help which requires colleagues to go out of their way. If you haven’t built up a strong working relationship with these colleagues, it could be game…

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5 Global Team Engagement Tips

5 Global Team Engagement Tips

Employee engagement can be challenging when you are leading teams in the same region, let alone globally. Here are some tips I have gained from my experience of leading global teams. 1. Time Zone Friendly People unconsciously set up meetings outside of regular working hours for colleagues in other regions, especially ASIA PAC. It is one of my friend’s pet…

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Do Leaders Have Location Bias?

Do Leaders Have Location Bias?

Throughout my corporate career, I have been involved in many senior leadership changes and subsequent reorgs.

With each change, the location of leadership power and decision making changed, i.e. wherever the new senior leader was based, most of their leadership team were located.

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Video – Maintaining Balance Under Pressure

Video – Maintaining Balance Under Pressure

I am privileged to have been interviewed this week by Rebecca Godfrey PhD as part of her Leadership Vaccine Series. Rebecca is a scientist, speaker, trainer, strategist and the founder of Etheo Limited, a Team and Leadership development consultancy. Drawing on her experience holding senior leadership positions in the pharmaceutical industry, her aim is to change the way highly regulated…

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The Calm Before the Storm

The Calm Before the Storm

Challenge yourself every day to do better and be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances George Bernard Shaw The Storm There is a storm coming, unlike any storm you have seen before – Financial markets are seeing volatility way more significant than was seen in the 2008 financial crisis. Countries around the world…

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Top 10 Career Success Articles of 2019

Top 10 Career Success Articles of 2019

If you want to accelerate to the next level in your career while not impacting your family relationships, you need to focus on 3 principles – Stand Out, Scale Up and Deliver Impact. The articles I wrote in 2019 have been aligned around these 3 principles to help you achieve your personal career goals. In case you missed these, here…

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What’s the Impact of Not Saying No?

What’s the Impact of Not Saying No?

When you say yes to others, make sure you are not saying no to yourself – Paul Coelho Are you constantly saying yes to work from your boss and stakeholders in the belief that it will progress you to the next level? Do you feel overwhelmed, exhausted or stressed? Are you constantly context switching and not spending the time needed…

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Install an Escalation Early Warning System

Install an Escalation Early Warning System

Here’s why you need to install an escalation early warning system with your team. It’s Kicking Off Things aren’t going well with the project, and noise is growing, or you suspect it will. It’s ok you’ve got this under control. You’ve nailed it, you’ve mitigated the risk, you’ve found a way to bring it back on track and let everyone…

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Why Your Personal Support Team is Crucial

Why Your Personal Support Team is Crucial

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Helen Keller Your personal support team is made up of a small number of colleagues that you trust to give you constructive unbiassed feedback and be a confidential sounding board. Why It Works In 2004, a study by Goldsmith and Morgan on the impact of leadership development programmes…

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Year-End Reviews Made Easy

Year-End Reviews Made Easy

Yay, we’ve just put up our Christmas decorations. My wife and children always make the house look amazing. As usual, I am like a big kid bouncing around the front room showing my excitement, cuddling everyone and dancing about.

If it ever stops raining, then I will tackle the outside icicle lights, penguins and reindeer. For now, I am in the dry and warm writing this post.

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