Peter James: Leadership and Management Summary: As organisations grow, the level of complexity grows accordingly, and the division of tasks increases. As this happens, don’t lose sight of the fact that some activities still need to sit across management as a whole -they should not be delegated or departmentalised wholesale as the organisation grows. Leadership [...]
There have been a lot of great leaders, who under the most demanding circumstances have shown amazing resilience. From Martin Luther King, to Nelson Mandela, or Gandhi, their stories are well known. But there are just as many failures in history, where leadership was not resilient, and the greater group suffered, sometimes greatly. So, [...]
Executive Summary Our consciousness is building a bridge between the chaos of the world and our interactions with it (the order we’ve created for ourselves). We do this through developing mental models and interpretive solutions based on our self-understanding, which is unique to each of us. We all see the world differently. These mental [...]
In these times of confusion, worry and stress, leadership counts. How you react and behave when the pressure is on will give others insight on your leadership abilities. Holding the title becomes irrelevant, people are looking for leadership action and language. Around the world we are starting to see how our political ‘leaders’ are behaving [...]
Handling conflict or tension arising from: words that should not have been said, faulty assumptions about why someone has behaved the way they have, disagreement about decisions made, differences in personality, beliefs and backgrounds, or ambiguity in role and direction is never easy, especially if you are a party in the conflict. However, a conflict [...]
Achieving productivity and financial targets are generally top priorities for business leaders. Provided service and/or product orders are being maintained at optimal levels, targets that are not being met by employees over a sustained period are likely to elicit ‘why’ questions from line managers. This article outlines likely employee responses in terms of what matters [...]
What is the Changing Gears program? In a nutshell Changing Gears is about celebrating our ageing workforce, transitioning them from full-time work with dignity and assisting their employer organisations with that process. It has evolved over several years and we work across the country and across all sectors. We've had around 7000 mature-age employees [...]
For such a topical subject, it is surprising how little organisations are paying attention to it. Is it because its not seen as an operation imperative? Are people oblivious to the consequences? Or is it just on the ‘too hard’ basket. Many organisations we speak to are very ‘intellectually’ interested in investigating the issue, but [...]
While the CEO, manager, supervisor or leader is critical to setting the direction or goals, long term success depends upon a team approach. A poorly performing team breeds competing agendas and turf politics, while an integrated high performing team brings organisation coherence and focus. A good team begins with a collection of strong and talented [...]
Effective Facilitation Effective facilitation consists of inputs (actions) by one or more persons that help groups achieve their goals and maintain or improve their competencies to achieve their goals. A skilled facilitator can add an enormous amount of value to a team meeting where outcomes are needed. Those outcomes could include actions, decisions, mutual understanding [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: