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...
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.
Great leaders have the capacity to stay true under fire, to stay calm balanced when they are surrounded by chaos, to stay kind and respectful when feeling angry or frustrated, to take responsibility for their behaviours.
To be trusted and lead effectively, leaders must walk their talk. In order to do that, they must have a talk to walk.
All too often, we try to develop leaders by giving them new skills, tools and techniques. But none of these can inspire deep, fundamental, lasting change in leaders. The most fundamental and important aspect of all personal and leadership development is...
To believe in you as a leader, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and (2) whether or not they can trust you.
More critically, image management creates values breaches, wherein people fail to speak up or admit mistakes, judge or blame others, and avoid addressing inefficiencies — all to ensure their image is protected.
Taking accountability for our mistakes is not one of our strong suits. We do everything we can to avoid it. Learn how to take more accountability here.
To be an excellent leader, you need to live by what you teach, but this can be challenging to do. Find out how you can “walk” your “talk” as a leader.
Creating sustainable organisational change requires careful planning. Read this blog post to learn about the different approaches to organisational change.
