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Leaderment & Managership
Interestingly, we don’t say Leaderment or Managership. This article is an attempt at a definitive understanding of what leadership and management are all about. However, definitive is as definitive goes ……. Leaders & managers are people and leadership &...
Leadership or Egoship
Don’t confuse Leadership with Egoship Leadership is about influencing, motivating and enabling others to contribute to the effectiveness and success of the organizations of which they are members Egoship is about trying to convince people that you know best and...
Together Everyone Achieves …
The word “team” is one of the most abused words that I hear used in corporate environments Teams are, apparently, everywhere; the design team, the product development team, the sales team, the project team, the management team, the leadership team ….. and,...
Personality Questionnaires
The results of personality questionnaires depend on how you answer the questions; in fact, most of the associated reports start with something like, “the information used to generate this report was obtained solely from the questionnaire you completed”. The...
Staying in the zone
Staying in the zone is not easy and we are sometimes our own worst enemy! I went out for a run today and after about a kilometre or so I could feel the “bounce”; I was in my stride and could feel myself bouncing from my left to right foot and back? Strangely,...
Leadership Voice
“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play” Richard Strauss Your leadership voice makes a significant contribution to your leadership impact. Many people like to think that they have a naturally “polychrome”...
Do you have an Achilles Tendon?
I come across a lot of people who are “globally” mentally tough but with “specific” issues or weaknesses; and it’s often the weakness that “let’s them down” in difficult situations. Mental Toughness is a “A personality trait which determines, in a large part,...
Feedback
Feedback may be the breakfast of champions, but not everyone knows how to makes eggs over easy that do not give indigestion Being open to receiving feedback is not always easy, we all go through the Shock Anger Rejection Acceptance cycle; with some getting to...
Interpretation
“There is no truth. There is only perception” Gustave Flaubert I often hear people say that “we have different perceptions of the same event” or “we clearly don’t see things the same way”, etc. The word Perception comes from Latin “perception” meaning gathering...
Zone time
There is no next time, there is no last time, there is only zone time. Zone times are those magic moments when you are firing on all cylinders; you are physically fired up, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned. You are sitting atop of...