Hey, congratulations, you’ve made it. Now you are a leader, how does it feel? Exciting, a little daunting? Maybe you have been around a little while and are still feeling rather unprepared for the leadership task ahead. Then again, perhaps you have … [Continue reading]
Want to Be a Great Coach? Learn How to Be Patient
As a manager and a leader, how do you find the time to be a coach? With so many demands on your time, finding the space to be a coach too is extremely difficult. Yes, I know you know that it makes sense. The more you invest in your people, the more … [Continue reading]
If You Want to Be a Good Manager, Start with These Five Beliefs
If you are a manager and want to learn how to be an even better manager, it pays to develop your own theory about what the job entails. This goes deeper than a simple job description. If you want to know how to manage people exceptionally well, try … [Continue reading]
If You Want to Learn How to Lead
...first learn what it means! If you are new to leadership or have been a leader for a little while, you can improve your skills by investing some time in developing your own definition of leadership. Of course, there are lots of fine definitions … [Continue reading]
Focusing Your Stakeholder Management
Becoming more strategic at managing and influencing your stakeholders requires that you take a structured approach to your work. The first step of the Stakeholder Influence Process requires that you get very clear on exactly what you want to … [Continue reading]
How to Protect Your Integrity
Integrity is about behaving consistently with a set of deeply held values and beliefs. Put another way, it means being true to yourself and usually involves a strong moral code relating to the way you interact with and treat other people (and … [Continue reading]
Exercise: How to Define Agendas Influencing Your Work
As you begin to identify the people who are most influential around your project, a vital consideration is their agenda. Figuring out what this is might at first sight appear easy; however, going beyond the professional agenda and into the realms of … [Continue reading]
Understanding Conflict between Personal and Professional Agendas
When others don’t want to cooperate or are working against you, “conflicting agendas” are often cited as the cause. This seems to signal a barrier to success, an explanation of why you can’t get the things done – or is it an excuse? A more helpful … [Continue reading]
Exercise: What Does Trust Mean to You?
Given the complexities of trust, especially when it comes to relationships, it is important to get a very clear fix on exactly what it is and what it means to you. This exercise will help to equip you to be able to build trust more effectively, and … [Continue reading]
Exercise: Protecting Integrity
Take a blank piece of paper and quickly brainstorm all of the things which you think are important values/beliefs when dealing with other people (e.g. “tell the truth even if it hurts”; “treat people as humans not numbers”; “you’ve got to be cruel to … [Continue reading]
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