Category: 06. Relationships

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#47 How Does Your Team Handle Conflict?

27/10/2022

Following last week’s post, the second characteristic of an effective team is the ability to engage in a Healthy Conflict. This is where we address the tough issues with a constructive, yet passionate debate.

#45 Three Leadership Styles That Role Model Vulnerability

13/10/2022

Since her 2010 TEDx talk, Brené Brown has delivered vulnerability front and centre as a key part of being human, and in leading others. Like previous disruptions to the conventional view of leadership, many of us have struggled with how to apply her well-researched concepts into our daily leadership practice.

#43 Is There Something Worse than Being Fired?

22/9/2022

What is worse than being fired? Being ignored. As a leader, ignoring one or more team members is a form of punishment, and most of us never think of the impact.

#35 Creating Psychological Safety Through Enhanced Relatedness

1/6/2022

Today’s focus is on the concept of Relatedness. When leaders Energise Action and hold people accountable for their individual and collective performance through clear objectives, effective feedback and coaching they create a strong culture of interdependence and cooperation which leads to increased Relatedness.

#32 Status and The Growth Mindset

9/5/2022

David Rock’s SCARF model is an excellent framework through which to explore human behaviour as driven by people’s social concerns. The first component is Status which relates to how we see ourselves and how others see us.

#25 Team Leaders...Stop ignoring. Create belonging in your team.

22/3/2022

What is worse than being fired? Being ignored. As a leader, ignoring one or more team members is a form of punishment, and most of us never think of the impact.

#17 Tough Conversations

25/1/2022

Many of us put off having that tough conversation, as we visualise it not going well. Even the term “tough conversations” primes us to expect difficulties and potential pitfalls.

#11 Teamwork: But what about me?

23/11/2021

While teaming and collaboration are ubiquitous in our organisations, high functioning teams are not. And while most of us and our team members have learned to play nicely in the sandbox, larger goals and incentives still can create a competitiveness that prevents the team from fully functioning at an optimum level.

#4 Teamwork: Are your teams thriving?

4/10/2021

Teamwork and collaboration have become ubiquitous in the workplace over the past few decades with most employees now regularly collaborating with colleagues on projects large and small.