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It is evidently clear that personality traits vary from situation to situation. I have used the highly simplified equation; Personality + Situation = Behaviour to demonstrate this reality for many years. This shows that although personalities can be wide and varied, and of course influence how people respond, the other key variable is the situation they find themselves in. We…
Tim Gallway was the first person to coin the phrase the ‘Inner Game’ in his best-selling first book the Inner Game of Tennis, which sold over 2 million copies. Tim noted that there is always an inner game being played out in your mind, no matter what outer game you are playing. How aware you are about this inner game…
I think most of us were pleased to see the back of 2020! The leaders I spoke to, all shared their reality that 2020 was exhausting and personally challenging and they were looking forward towards 2021 in the hope that it turns out to be a little less stressful. Let’s see…. One of the legacies 2020 gave leaders are a…
So, you want to change your organisations culture? Take a breath, what you are about to embark on is not easy, and is certainly not for the faint hearted. The prevailing paradigm will protect itself and it is more than capable of doing so. There are reasons, some of them still pertinent, as to why people behave the way they…
What makes change leaders different?
2021 marks 34 years in the Change Management profession for me and I am still learning how to help people change. It is an endlessly fascinating subject. I never cease to be amazed at the creativity that is unleashed when someone is confronted with a challenge to change. The reasons why they cannot lean into this challenge are seemly endless!…
The global pandemic has posed leaders many short-term challenges to overcome. They have had to pivot product applications and services as well as finding new ways of working pretty much overnight. Those that have succeeded now face a far more interesting conundrum to ponder. Will ‘Working from Anywhere’ become the default organisational design from now on, and if so, is…
Building the capability to win in your teams Agility in and of itself can bring many benefits, leading as it does to change resilience and the reactive capacity and confidence to tackle whatever life throws at us. Meaningful agility however goes one step further, it harnesses energy and proclivities and focusses them into areas and activities that matter. The additional…
Insights for Leaders facing the uncertainty of our current reality There are very few organisations that have emerged from the lock-down period without some forced- flexibility being part of their current ways of working. For leaders this has been a period where leadership styles, habits and rituals have all been put under the spotlight. Like everyone else, leaders have had…