12/05/2022 No Comments
Making The Shift From Doing To Leading
One of the most difficult transitions for new leaders to make is the shift from doing to leading. As an early-stage business owner or manager, you can get away with holding on to work. People may even admire your willingness to keep “rolling up you... Read More
10/05/2022 No Comments
The 10 Shades Of Grey In Effective Delegation
Delegating is the idea of I’m going to ask someone to do an activity or a task I’m currently doing. I’m going to explain the outcomes that I’m looking for and then I’m going to provide the right level of training and support... Read More
26/04/2022 No Comments
Are You Delegating Or Abdicating?
Many small-business owners struggle to let go of the reins when they take on their first employees. They want things done their way – they struggle to delegate, they micromanage, and they end up spending just as long as it would have taken to do it... Read More
17/03/2022 No Comments
How To Improve The Performance Of Your Remote Team
Even before the pandemic remote or virtual teams were becoming more frequent. In fact, in some industries, they’re now the norm. The expansion of talent networks and the vast improvements in technology and connectivity mean that the search for tale... Read More
10/03/2022 No Comments
High-Performance Leadership – Bringing Taboo Subjects Into The Light
In every company, certain subjects are only discussed behind closed doors. The problem is that often these “unspeakable” statements are the most important ones for leaders to hear and for the team to tackle. They need to be said out loud, not at ... Read More
03/03/2022 No Comments
Slowing Down To Speed Up – Why It’s Key To High-Performance In Your Team
How you convey information to your team is critical to effective execution. Taking the time for conversation is very important. Ask yourself this – if I could just get my people to do better – before it’s a performance problem, am I doing e... Read More
17/02/2022 No Comments
Why Annual Performance Reviews Don’t Work?
Although I worked with some very successful businesses in the early years of my career there were some very average management practices. Management training meant being trained to fill out forms, have a once-a-year appraisal conversation with your e... Read More
10/02/2022 No Comments
High Performance Leadership – Creating Permission To Tell Bad News
As a former CEO of multiple businesses and now a Business Coach, I’ve learned from experience that there are fundamentally three key drivers of a high-performance environment in a ness. Strategy – clear customer strategy development and defin... Read More
03/02/2022 No Comments
The 3 Drivers Of A High-Performance Team In Any Business
A good friend of mine, Susan Lucia Annunzio – President and Chief Executive Officer of The Center for High Performance, based in Chicago – completed a global study of workforce performance and published her book Contagious Success. This was groun... Read More
27/01/2022 No Comments
Right People Doing The Right Things Right
Team building is all about getting the right people doing the right things in order to accomplish a shared vision. This isn’t a new idea. Jim Collins wrote about this in ‘Good to Great’, describing “disciplined people” and “discip... Read More
