Brain power: effective leadership

By |2020-04-22T10:51:57+10:00March 1st, 2016|Leadership development|

Brain Power: How it impacts performance in effective leadership While researching for some potential development opportunities for one of my clients, I came across this video.  The discussion between Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence) and Daniel Siegel (clinical psychiatrist at UCLA) focuses on why it is important for leaders to understand the [...]

How to effectively deliver a 360 degree feedback project

By |2020-04-22T10:51:58+10:00February 23rd, 2016|360 Degree Feedback|

How to effectively deliver a 360 degree feedback project Our team are passionate about helping our clients get the most out of their 360 degree feedback project.  It was with their encouragement (and a gentle shove) that I found myself in front of the camera to make some short clips on how to [...]

5 Tips for increasing your productivity at work

By |2020-04-22T10:51:59+10:00July 29th, 2015|Best Practices|

Many leaders will agree with the statement “there are not enough hours in the day!” Most of us, not just leaders alone, will experience periods of time where we struggle to manage the pressures of a heavy workload and find ourselves wishing for an extra few hours in the day (or days in the week). [...]

Zenger & Folkman’s Leadership Tent – Interpersonal Skills

By |2020-04-22T10:51:59+10:00May 29th, 2015|Leadership development|

The fourth tent pole of the Leadership tent puts into one cluster the interpersonal or ‘people skills’ of the leader. Interpersonal skills include: communicating powerfully and prolifically, inspiring others, building positive relationships, developing others, and being open to new ideas. Along with Character, this pole is thought to support the most canvas on the tent. [...]

Zenger & Folkman’s Leadership Tent – Character

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00March 2nd, 2015|Leadership development|

In our last blog post, we discussed the concept of the Leadership Tent, as introduced by Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman in their book “The Extraordinary Leader”. The Leadership tent is representative of the 5 key areas of effective leadership.  The poles of the tent represent key strengths of the individual leader – personal capabilities, [...]

Zenger & Folkman’s Leadership Tent

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00January 29th, 2015|Leadership development|

In their book “The Extraordinary Leader”, Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman look at research on leadership skills. They demonstrate that not only can leadership be developed, but that essential leadership skills are relatively few in number. They found that very few leaders possess the entire essential skill set, nor do they possess similar patterns of [...]

Building a Coaching Culture in the Workplace

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00December 4th, 2014|Methodologies|

How we define ‘coaching’ makes all the difference to how we interpret the definition of a coaching culture. Primarily this is because different definitions of a coaching culture may focus on different aspects of whatever we define as ‘coaching’. Under most definitions,  a ‘coaching culture’ is generally said to be present when all members of [...]

The importance of Emotional Intelligence in the workplace

By |2020-04-22T10:52:15+10:00October 30th, 2014|Methodologies|

Emotional Intelligence (EI) refers to a person’s ability to accurately identify and understand their own emotional reactions and those of others in a given situation. In particular, it is the ability to perceive, control and evaluate these emotions. The skill of regulating one’s own emotions and the ability to make sound decisions and act effectively [...]

Become an assertive leader

By |2020-04-22T10:52:16+10:00October 3rd, 2014|Leadership development|

As a leader, part of your role is to inspire confidence in and commitment from the members of your team. To be able to do this effectively, you need to be able to express your thoughts, opinions, and attitudes in a forthright way. Being able to do so – being assertive - is about achieving [...]

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