The Weakest Link
We all know there is always a weakest link on any team (always someone else, of course!). As the old saying goes, "a team is only as strong as its…
How To Increase Your Leadership IQ: Implementation Quotient
How do leaders accomplish more than others? And how do they achieve great things with others? I believe a leader's success is due to their IQ: implementation quotient. That is…
9 Ways to Break Down The Barriers Undermining Collaboration
How well do people across your business work together to achieve your collective goals? Do managers work with one another to identify priorities and coordinate their team's efforts?
How To Use Presentations As A Tool To Change Internal Culture
Have you conducted a culture assessment in your organisation? How would you rate the morale and the current attitudes of your workforce?
How To Make Stronger Leadership Decisions
Leaders are required to make decisions every day, and in a world that is constantly changing and increasingly complex making good decisions is harder than ever.
Are Your Staff Eager To Work?
Studies show that approximately two-thirds of employees are not fully engaged at work, and 26% are actively disengaged. But you don't need studies to prove that.
Why people resist change
There is no doubt that there is an extraordinary amount of change taking place in many workplaces today. Restructures, redundancies, major changes from head office or funding bodies, and new…
Dealing with defensive personalities
When you're dealing with someone whose behaviour is obviously problematic, there’s nothing more frustrating than their refusal to see any problem with their behaviour at all.
Co-Ceo
Richard joined Proteus Leadership in 1999. Up until his appointment as Co-CEO in March 2019, Richard was the Managing Director and a Lead Educator at Proteus Leadership. He is recognised…
The Service Factor
Imagine if everybody at your workplace saw customers like they were running their own small business and had what Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, called having a ‘Day One’ philosophy.…
Transparent Leadership
We all know that trust, respect, integrity and service have been the go to values and behaviours for any successful workplace. However, in our new digital age, ‘Transparency’ has become…
Building Your Credibility
It is sad that the usually well-intentioned efforts of hardworking people is so easily discounted, mistrusted or ignored.
Top 10 Leadership Lessons
A common thread to being an extraordinary leader is being open to new ideas and ways of thinking as well as staying committed to growing their business, themselves and others.
Successfully Lead Your Team – Get Bad At What You Do
Leader, manager, foreman, boss... These titles (and others) describe people who are responsible for getting a job done by directing others.
8 Ways You Can Incorporate Strategic Awareness In Business And Life
Strategic awareness rarely features in modern text books on management, yet is something that can fundamentally change conversations and decision-making at the board level.
One Thing A Leader Needs To Practice
There is the constant quest to define the qualities that make a great leader. This quest will go on until the end of time, as it should.
Avoid 5 Pitfalls Of Difficult Conversations
Have you ever watched two people handle a difficult conversation poorly? It is always easier to see the mistakes other people make, but much harder to see our own contributions…
The Culture Pulse Test
Workplace culture is going to happen with or without you, and because it is not linear, your culture will do one of two things.
