Welcome to middle leadership, the mystical place where you’re expected to lead without significant authority and inspire with limited resources. Your new role may come with a slightly larger desk and access to more emails than the average inbox can handle, but the true prize? The delicate and diplomatic dance of leading peers who still […]
Performance tips for 2022 – from a rugby legend
There is a wonderful article in the AFR today by Sally Patten. It is titled ‘Five performance tips from a rugby legend‘ and features advice from Eddie Jones. Talk to people who are about to retire or have retired. Eddie says this tip was given to him by our former PM, Bob Hawke. Bob reckoned […]
Agility – what does this mean for me and the success of my team?
To keep up with the relentless pace of change, the regular message we receive is that we need to make ourselves and our teams more agile. This holds true whether you lead a team of two or two thousand. But how do you create this agility? Published in 2018, The Agile Leader by Simon Hayward […]
Insights on change management from McKinsey
With “70% of major change management projects not achieving the objectives they set out to achieve”, the insights shared in this McKinsey video provide guidance on how to not fall into this category. Of those that don’t achieve their objectives, 70% relates to human issues. So the early stage of the change management process is […]
8 tips on building teams that people enjoy working for
This short TED series video on ‘The Way We Work’ shares 8 tips on building organisations that people enjoy working for. Your employees are adults Assume that everyone goes to work each day to do something amazing. Simple? But how many organisations introduce systems that treat people like children? The job of management isn’t to […]
