As a Leader, If You Aspire Towards Greatness Maybe, One Day, You Will Become One
Being a great leader is not your decision… ‘How to be a great leader’ or derivatives around this title are often used by self-help books, courses and trainers but you aren’t the one who is going to decide whether you are great or not. Others, your colleagues, results, what you achieve in your lifetime and […]
Lifelong Learning & Leadership – Do you really think you know it all?
This week I have been running several leadership workshops, some full day some half. At one company there was a gathering of 13 leaders responsible for over 265 people between them. The age range spanned from 30’s to 60’s and were a mixture of men and women. (It was almost a 50/50 split between the […]
Weakness when confronted can become strengths
Are you willing to acknowledge your weaknesses? This week I attended a leadership day where 12 leaders from large UK organisations were gathered. (Interestingly only 1 of the 12 was a woman which I made a note of in light of my previous article.) I had been invited by the organisers as they […]
Being social is not electronic…
I have been pondering the meaning of ‘social’ especially as I have been struggling to keep up with social media messaging and posting of late. Being social in an electronic sense is a necessary evil (as far as I’m concerned) if you are in business and self-employed. Being social – business or pleasure? I have […]
Defining yourself as Male/Female, Black/White?
I was at an event this past weekend and, as I usually do, wandered around the room speaking to various people afterwards. With one particular person I asked one of my normal questions; “what is your biggest business challenge at the moment?” to which the reply I got back was “I am a woman and […]
Big business buzzing around aimlessly
‘I’m going to kill him’, was my thought. I had just got back from an event which, as I was the speaker, meant I had been on the go for almost 20 hours straight. It had been a hot, humid and tiring day and I had just got home. You know how, when you finally […]
Working life pressure and being human
Gosh, working life pressures are insidious are they not? I have fallen into the trap again! I really should know better but, hey, we’re all human. Thankfully I tend to notice I have tumbled in and at least I fall in taking a ladder with me. What am I talking about? I’m sure many of […]
Think differently – is trauma the only way or can we learn to shift our way of thinking?
I’ve been ruminating recently about why I appear to see things and think differently compared to so many others. People are continually coming up to me saying “I hadn’t thought to look at it like that”, “that’s an idea I hadn’t thought of”, “I found what you said inspiring” and yet, to me, I’ve only […]
Maintain Motivation – Sustaining the Change Motivation
My 2 preceding articles have explained what the rationale and history of Motivation is and how to shift from a Reward Motivation mind-set into a Change Motivation mind-set. But how can you sustain your new found Change motivation mind-set when you get there? How do you stop slipping back into the more blinkered, conventional Reward […]
Shifting your Reward motivation into a Change motivation
In my previous article I explained how, currently, 90% of people are working within a Reward motivation concept. In order to survive and succeed within the fast pace changes we are now facing a Reward motivation alone will no longer be enough. A Change motivation, the ability to be motivated by change itself, will be […]