Your impact is your legacy
You may have a lot of strategies for the business, change initiatives, cost saving, or growth. So why not have a strategy for your impact? Do you know what impact you are having at work? Do you know what kind of ripple effect you create around you? Do you know how you make others feel? For the last 25+ years, we have worked with many hundreds of leaders around the world, and we have taken great interest in the importance of leadership...
Conflict and collaboration. A match made in heaven?
Conflict is usually seen as something negative, often as a result of people having experienced conflict and found it to be painful and demotivating and having an unhealthy impact on the work culture and climate. But conflict doesn’t have to be negative at all. It all comes back to how we perceive it. We can either see it as a good thing or a bad thing – or something in between. In fact, conflict is only a difference of opinion, which...
Be a storyteller
The very first book we wrote was a business novel called ‘The Team Formula – A Leadership Tale of a Team Who Found Their Way’. We chose this format because we feel so strongly about the power of storytelling. And the impact was staggering – we have lost count of how many people have told us “you could have been talking about us, I recognised so many of those situations!” And that’s the beauty of stories, they make theories and ideas...
Four ways to improve social health
Health is important for us all, at work and in life as a whole. We often think and talk about it as physical health and mental health. But what about social health? This could be described as team health, collaborative health, connectedness health, belonging health, networking health – basically anything that talks about the health that our social interactions (or lack thereof) create. People spend so much time in a work environment,...
Lead with freedom
In the late 90's we eagerly studied companies that were outstanding at creating employee engagement, which led to customer loyalty and to financial payback – which could be invested back into employees. High on that list were companies like the Ritz-Carlton hotel group and the low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines, to mention a few. A lot can be said about companies that have been successful at this. One common denominator that it often...
