Well we are drawing to the end of another year, when some of you will be starting to think about your plans and aspirations for the year ahead.
A change in career can be revitalising, giving you new drive and focus. That said, It can also be very daunting, and the fear of change can often prevent people from making important decisions about whether they should stay in their current role. However, with consideration and carefully planned change, you could find yourself in a new role or career that you find far more rewarding.
How often do you see people focusing on what's gone wrong rather than what actually went right? We are a nation of self-critics, always looking at our failings and imperfections.
Our negative self-reflective behaviour often transcends and we focus negatively on the actions of others rather than appreciating the greatness that they may have actually brought to the situation!
It doesn’t matter where you come from in life, where you are going or how you get there. You are in charge of your own destiny, only you can decide what you want to accomplish and what kind of a person you want to be. I'm a big believer that those who achieve great things in life are invariably those who give a lot of thought to their own growth and put in the effort to achieve it too! People become exceptional by design, not by accident.
Wine or Chocolates? Work or Play? We make many quick decisions unconsciously every single day; others we deliberate over in agony, often putting ourselves first without giving any real thought to others! We choose actions and form opinions via our mental processes which are influenced by biases, reason, emotions, expectations and memories. You could question whether we really even have free will or is it well within our power to make choices that lead to greater well-being?
No boss is perfect, even the best bosses have flaws. During my working career I've seen and worked with some great bosses. Unfortunately I've also seen and worked with some that have plenty of room for improvement too!
Here I share with you a quick list of my top tips that I use to help transform good bosses into GREAT bosses. If you're being brutally honest with yourself as you read through this list and are fulfilling my tips already, you're displaying signs that you're on track to being a GREAT boss.
I’ve been busy delivering some community leadership learning and working with an organisation in developing their top team following a re-structure. During the last few weeks I’ve lost count of the amount of times that people have asked what leadership means to me. So I thought I’d share my thoughts with you too.
Can you believe that there are tens of thousands of leaders out there who are trying to manage teams that have lost respect for them? Most worryingly, many of these leaders don’t even realise that they’ve lost control of their team!
So here goes… Here are some of the most common issues that I come across in my work almost every day when I’m helping leaders trouble shoot, are you faced with any of these issues?
YOUR organisations culture can differentiate you from your competitors. It helps you attract the BEST employees, retain them longer and most importantly, it drives performance!
Do you have an organisation of individuals who do good work because they are talented? Or, are you successful because your employees will settle for absolutely nothing but the best?
Have you noticed that today’s society is riddled with negativity? Maybe it’s like this for every generation, but some of the workplaces that I work in are like negativity camps. Outside of work, conversations are in the main dominated by pessimism (or maybe I’m just being negative!).
In my coaching role I’m constantly working with clients to turn negatives into positives.
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