While discussing leadership culture during a recent training session, a participant asked me who needed to adapt: the manager to the team or vice versa? Answering this, I spoke about the need for both parties to adapt to each other, as will team members to each...
It was a pleasant feeling coming across this phrase, ‘leadership is always personal’, in my reading this week. Like many of you reading this, I have always believed this and hold it as an important value. Reading it brought me back to a time when I was working...
Motivating your team is a crucial skill for any leader at any level. It depends on your ability to get on with other people, build relationships, develop others and, quite often, to see the best in people. It is based on your ability to see the reward needed for the...
Do you want to improve your career where you work? Whether that is moving up the management ladder, stepping onto the ladder for the first time or becoming recognised as a technical expert? But, you are not sure if developing your leadership skills is really that...
Managing conflict is one of the most important skills in the engaging leader’s toolkit. How you manage conflict will have a significant impact on whether your team is engaged and motivated or simply going through the motions. In this blog post, I will first look at...
