In times that are unheralded, where all the routines and guidelines are up ended, where social etiquettes are now unclear, where social norms are no longer the norm, where life’s routines are dishevelled, where work life has been displaced, where […]
Never Waste a Good Crisis: The Golden Opportunity for the C-Suite to Drive for a New and Better FutureBy Dr Darryl Cross & Stephen Dowling It was Sir Winston Churchill who said, “Never waste a good crisis”. Nothing was more true than […]
No Individual Can do it Alone An increasing number of leaders are discovering that effectively running an organisation, whether a business unit, a small company, or a large corporation is harder than ever before. It isn’t however, that senior leaders […]
Ever really thought about it? Bureaucracy. Have you really stopped to think what it might be doing to our current way of working and to our economy? Have you ever wondered if there was a better way? Or maybe you’ve […]
We have all heard someone praise another as a ‘great leader’ or an ‘inspirational leader’, and we may even strive to be such ourselves, but what exactly is leadership in its many forms and what does it mean to be […]
By Dr Darryl Cross (Institute for Leadership Coaching) & Stephen Dowling (ETM Consultancy & Training) Leadership is many things to many people (see https://leadershipcoaching.com.au/leadership/), but what is clear is that leadership now needs to be quick on their feet as it […]
What Commonly Happens In the coaching work that I do, it is certainly true to say that almost all leaders and managers who I encounter want to create a positive culture for their staff. They want a good team environment. […]
The term “transformational leadership” is often heard around the workplace, but what is it really? The concept of transformational leadership was first introduced by political scientist James MacGregor Burns in his 1978 book Leadership, James MacGregor Burnsand has since become […]
We have already discussed what a narcissist is in a previous article (“The Narcissist: What is it exactly?”) suffice to say that the world famous Mayo Clinic based in Rochester, Minnesota defines the narcissistic personality disorder as “a mental disorder […]
Generally these days, you don’t have to go far to hear people refer to someone as a narcissist. It could be socially at a party or gathering, it could be in the staff room at the workplace or it could […]
Google loves statistics and analytics, but when it comes to team performance, it wasn’t so easy to identify those components that brought about effective teams. Would you believe it was about creating a safe psychological environment that was directly correlated […]
What really works in leadership? The authors of this article came up with a list of 20 distinct leadership traits. However, what is fascinating is that four specific traits explained 89% of the variance between strong and weak organisations in […]
This article from HR Daily focuses on the 10 key areas (which they call red flags) that can help prevent an organisation’s culture from derailing. Needless to say, the first red flag is the CEO and whether he or she […]
It is well known that an organisation benefits if employees can speak freely and let their managers know about new ideas or problems that they are facing at work. Most research surveys show that employees do not share their ideas […]
Counselling Vs. Coaching The debate between coaching and counselling seems to linger on. Psychologist and coaches often face a common question that is aimed at asking the difference between coaching and therapy. Coaching and counselling have the same roots but […]
This article highlights how positive work culture is more effective and helps build a healthier workforce than an intense environment focusing alone on driving financial success and profit. While both business organisations and companies place an emphasis on being competitive […]
This topic has captured the imagination of the business world especially over the last decade or so where we are now studying what it takes for people to be able to step up and for a leader to be able […]
What we know about leaders is that they are influential in any organisation. Particularly is this so when the current leader has been the beginning entrepreneur who originally started the business and whose whole life and passion has been devoted […]
Basically, when it all boils down to it, there are only 3 main characteristics that go to make up an effective manager or team leader. These 3 traits keep coming up time and time again in our conversations with employees. […]
I’ve been intrigued over the last couple of months how leaders can be so vulnerable to those around them in terms of their leadership or executive team. Vulnerable? I’ve personally seen or heard of at least three leaders who have […]
