Leverage Your Leadership Skills To Improve Your Impact
What makes a leader more effective? How can you leverage your leadership abilities to increase and improve your impact?
Accessing The Confidence/Competence Loop
We all recognise that our success accelerates when we're confident. The reason is simple - without confidence we revert to fear, and when we are fearful we don't take any…
Top 4 Tips For Delivering Authentic Presentations
The most positive, memorable presentations are the ones that are authentic. When we deliver an authentic presentation, who we are shines through. We connect with our audience.
How To Keep Your Best Employee Before They Become Your Competitor
Steve Jobs worked for Atari before founding Apple. Jeff Bezos worked for Bankers Trust before launching Amazon. Elon Musk sold his first company to Compaq before starting Tesla and SpaceX.
Building Psychological Safety
In 1999, I joined Des Penny the CEO & Founder of Proteus Leadership to help run and grow the business. Shortly after, we co-wrote and launched the first culture workshop…
Leverage Your Established Relationships
In our obsession with social media metrics, followers, likes, connections, reach, Klout and so on, it's easy to forget that the people who will make the biggest difference to you…
The Dangers Of Compulsive Multi-Tasking
Leaders today are getting smashed with work. There is more to do than time available, everyone wants a piece of you, and time seems to evaporate into thin air. The…
Why Good Leaders Start As Good Followers
People in leadership roles have the latitude to decide who they want to work with. That's one of the perks. We spend significant numbers of hours each day; creating companies,…
Five Steps To Rediscovering Happiness
Life provides us with challenges. Sometimes we suffer circumstances that leave us in a bad space. The only truth is that you cannot control what happens to you, only what…
Shadowing – Your Surprise Secret Weapon For Leadership Success
Help your team members step up by letting them 'shadow' you in your job. This shows them how you spend your day, what you do, how you do it, what…
9 Ways Leaders Can Overcome The Tendency To Micromanage
Micromanagement. The word creates emotion in almost anyone who has ever worked a day in their life. Most have been micromanaged, and none liked it.
The 3 Elements Of Successful Innovations
One of the most commonly-quoted stories around disruption is about Kodak, which was the market leader in film photography, but failed because it couldn't adapt to digital photography.
10 Tips For Building Relationships That Work
Almost everything you have accomplished, or will ever accomplish, or may never accomplish can be traced to the quality of your relationships.
Demystifying Thought Leadership
The term Thought Leadership was first coined in 1994 by Joel Kurtzman, then the editor-in-chief for the magazine Strategy and Business.
Dealing With A (Good) Employee You Don’t Like
Have you ever had an employee who did their job well, yet still managed to drive you mad? If you have, then you'll know how rapidly frustration can snowball.
Stages Of Growth
The excitement of another year is always something that gets our creative juices going. New goals are set in all areas of our lives and HOPE reigns eternal that this…
Leading The Future – Getting All Your Ducks In A Row
I remember as a child going to my Grandparents farm just outside of Adelaide in South Australia and right across the lounge room wall was a line of plaster ducks,…
Creating A Culture Of Innovation
"In the mind and heart of every person is a car park of unfulfilled ideas and dreams that have not yet come to fruition - but they still can." - Des…
