The only way to develop real leadership credibility is by actually walking our talk, committing to action and being held accountable for what we commit to.
The Two Most Important Leadership Values
A massive survey identified 225 leadership values and characteristics, and refined them to a top 20. They then conducted a 30-year survey asking 100,000 participants to choose the characteristics they most admired in leaders.
Why Accountability Fails (And What Leaders Must Do Instead)
Great leaders know they must take accountability for their behaviour. However, many leaders can miss the fact that there are two sides of accountability.
Why self-awareness training is vital for great leadership
Developing as a leader is about cultivating our inner strength to stay true under fire, to ask questions we don’t know the answer to, to stay balanced when our world is turning upside down, to stay kind and respectful when the heat of anger and frustration are...
Why Our Values Must Be Backed by Action
The basis of leadership is trust. In his book The Speed of Trust, Stephen M. R. Covey explains, ‘Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up. This creates a trust tax. When trust goes up, speed...
How Values Keep Us On Track As Leaders
In their book The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain that, ‘Leadership begins with a belief in yourself and continues only if other people believe in you.’ To believe in you, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and (2)...
Owning Your Values As a Leader
The beginning of the leadership journey is defining clearly who you are, what you stand for and what your deepest values are.
4 Key Elements To Create Team Psychological Safety
Harvard organisational behavioural scientist Amy Edmondson first introduced the construct of ‘team psychological safety’, which she defined as a ‘shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking’.
Transform Your Leadership By Resolving Your Shadow
Carl Jung famously said, ‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ Mindfulness is how we ‘make the unconscious conscious’. The impact our unconscious programming has on our behaviour cannot be overestimated....
Ensure team accountability with mindful agreements
During my years of leadership consulting I have met far too many leaders who are acting either from a fear-based niceness or with a heartless ‘professional’ aggression.
