A healthy team culture with conflict leadership
Conflict and tension that don’t get properly resolved create stress, thereby impacting both mental/emotional and physical health. For that reason, conflict management is a key skill for both leaders and team members that want to be part of a healthy, productive, energising team experience. In fact, we should call this conflict leadership not just management. All of us need to lead through conflict. Leadership after all, is the...
4 impact hacks for managing your time
Don't wish you had more time, make more instead of the time available to you. Make it count. Here are 4 quick proven impact hacks to consider when wanting to dial up your impact by how you manage, and make the most of, your time. 1. VALUE YOUR TIME Choose how you spend your time. Dare to say no to meetings where you are not needed. Plan your time enough so that you have time for the things you enjoy (your strengths that energise you)...
Lead change, don’t just manage it
Learn to master change leadership, which is just as important – if not more so – than change management. For decades, managing change has been a key necessity for organisations across the globe. Managing change is largely a reactive response to changes that occur, in order to make those changes work. Being able to manage changes ensures your business can effectively handle the circumstances brought on by internal and external events....
Bridging the leadership void
What happens in the leadership void, when all or several leaders resign or are let go? The current COVID pandemic has certainly created leadership voids all around the world. A leadership void creates a lot of uncertainty and concern. It can also cause a drain on knowledge and experience, which an organisation (a country or a community) is dependent on and cannot afford to be drained of. In the leadership void, unless someone takes...
Creating a feedforward culture
Following on from last month's article of "feedback or feedforward?'' let's continue by exploring how to do feedforward well. By giving feedforward in an effective way, you can start to create a culture where people feel comfortable to talk to each other about pretty much anything. What it comes down to is respectful and supportive transparency. By being open to feedforward and seeing it as a gift, we encourage others to share their...
