When Coaching Doesn’t Work
Virtually all the advice on getting people to engage in their work and increase their productivity is predicated on a false assumption, namely that outside influence will result in lasting…
Coach or Cut Free?
The sad fact about chronically disruptive people is that they are rarely coachable or teachable. Human behaviour research shows us that functional environments will become dysfunctional as a result of…
Leading in the Best Workplace
How often do we ask ourselves, “How do I create the best possible workplace where people wake up in the middle of the night disappointed it is not time to…
How Knowledgeable Are You?
To quote from Peter Drucker in his book “Managing in the Next Society” (page 124), “… A knowledge based workforce is qualitatively different … survival, of every business will depend…
Why a Positive Mindset?
Enormous advances over the last decade in neuro-imaging technology have awakened us to the benefits of positive energy – for an increased capacity for achieving peak performance, for building and…
Trust at the Top
Many organizations possess great potential for creating high levels of organizational performance excellence, but are missing the one key ingredient for excellence – trust among the senior leadership team. This…
Trust and Collaboration
No other aspect of effective leadership is more apparent than the loss of trust through bad behaviour. Building and sustaining trust is critical to accomplishing tasks, achieving goals and creating…
The APB Technique – “Awareness, Pause, Breathe”
Staying in a positive mindset is greatly challenged in today’s complex and ever-changing work environment and for many of us it is a constant daily practice. One of the techniques…
The ‘Why’ of Positive Power
The findings coming forward from the neuro-sciences have huge implications for business organizations on a global scale. And in fact, these findings call for a gigantic shift in how the…
The Science of Bad Behaviour
A key focus of research on human performance seeks to understand the complexity and function of the human brain and its impact on performance in relationship to how people respond…