Leadership & presentations

Leadership & presentations

  A very good consultant friend of mine, Steve Dillingham, often says, “presentations are all about leadership”, to which I invariably retorque, “but leadership is not just about presentations” However, presentations, in the largest sense of the term, are clearly...
Leadership Impact – the importance of Self-awareness

Leadership Impact – the importance of Self-awareness

  “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate” Carl Jung Leadership, as defined by the GLOBE study, is “one’s capacity to influence and motivate others to contribute to the success of the organisation they...
Mental Roughness

Mental Roughness

  There is a thin line between Mental Toughness & Mental Roughness and the line is “awareness” When coaching those with particularly high Mental Toughness; typically scores of 8 to 10 on the MTQ suite of questionnaires I always get them to investigate how...
Leadership – best practice

Leadership – best practice

  Be determined without being stubborn Be focused without being blinkered Be enthusiastic without being impulsive Be open to risks without being reckless Be disciplined without being dogmatic Be structured without being rigid Be accommodating without acquiescing...
Leadership Impact – the importance of Self-awareness

Leadership – take it seriously

  You can impact some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t impact all of the people all of the time Leadership is a serious business and is not to be taken lightly, it’s not something you “dabble” in or have a go at...
Performing teams

Performing teams

  “Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.” Steve Jobs The first teambuilding I was involved in as a facilitator was in 1988; it was a week-long outdoor based event for the twelve-member management team of the...