Be the Leader People Want to Follow
People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional…
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…
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 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…
Re-wiring for Wellness
In today’s work environment where people bring their mind and their expertise together for a common goal, and where virtual meetings and social distancing are the new normal, it is…
Communicating For Performance Excellence
So often we hear in leadership education that we are to “lead by example.” Too often this translates to leaders that if I want my employees to work as hard…
Connecting Behaviour to Performance
The belief that a leader’s behaviour is the key predictor to organizational performance is a radical shift in leadership thinking. To develop a performance driven culture a key element is…
The Three Reasons Leadership Development Fails
Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms,…
A Culture Built For Performance
People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers, and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional…
We Get What We Create
Sigmund Freud, so the story goes, went to his grave perplexed by the question “What do women want?” I wonder if it ever occurred to Freud to simply ask a…