WHO TRUSTS YOU? In the previous blog on TRUST we looked at the cost to business of lack of trust and drilled trust down to a more personal and individual level. In Stephen R Covey’s book, The Speed of Trust he uses a simple model to show the relationship between trust, cost and the speed… Read more
Performance Coaching
Performance Coaching Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business. Including the financial benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%. This was the result of from a Fortune 500 Company who launched an innovative leadership development effort that was expected to accelerate the development of next… Read more
HOW TO STAND UP FOR YOURSELF AND GAIN RESPECT Ask anyone you meet how they would they like to be treated at work. At the top of most peoples’ list is the desire to be treated with dignity and respect. In this 2 part blog we look at how you achieve this through the… Read more
9 Cheap Ways to Motivate & Reward Remote Teams
MOTIVATING AND REWARDING REMOTE TEAMS In continuation from my last post thought I’d talk a little bit about the importance of extending your approach to recognition and reward to include the remote team members. NO NEWS ISN’T GOOD NEWS It’s all too easy to assume that because you haven’t heard anything that everything is OK… Read more
9 ways to manage a difficult boss
9 ways to manage your difficult boss “Life at work is just impossible. My boss is the most difficult manager I’ve ever met! This clown thinks that his only important function is to criticise”. In all likelihood, most of us have had similar thoughts. Some managers do project “compulsive, counter-productive, or just plain odd” behaviours…. Read more
How many to change a light bulb?
We all know the answer to the spurious question: how many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? We all know the answer is none: they have to want to change! Psychologists are not the only ones for whom this is true – it is so for all of us. As a manger… Read more
Self Preservation or Cherishing others?
Self Preservation or Cherishing others? There are many models of how assertiveness works. Until I began To grapple with the concept of win:win , I always found myself in something of a moral dilemma in balancing the concepts of assertion with the notion of caring for others. Indeed, often the common image of assertion is… Read more
Touching the Dragon’s Tail
Touching the Dragons Tail When the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book; and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers. The book wasn’t very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting… Read more
Some folks lives roll easy
Some folks lives roll easy Few, if any of us live our lives without some major challenge, mishap, or disaster. Such events test who we are and in this crucible of fire we begin to understand a little bit more of what we are capable. The reactions are myriad. Some of us are crippled others… Read more
A Talented Way to Keep Talent
A Talented Way to Keep Talent We are increasingly being asked to develop the talent at middle to senior management in organisations and help develop strategic thinking as a part of their mind set. Traditional management programmes may not stretch, engage and deeply challenge the skills and mindsets of talent individuals the organisation dearly wants… Read more