You’ve heard the saying “People join an organisation—and leave their boss”? The major reason (not the second or third reason but THE major reason) people leave their jobs is because of dissatisfaction with their immediate leader/manager. My boss was the motivator for me to resign at least once in my career. Let’s make sure that

Recently a leader (we’ll call him John) revealed that he’d just had a one-on-one meeting with his boss. But this one-on-one was different to all those previous one-on-ones… This time he felt truly heard. Previously not only had John struggled to get time in his boss’ calendar, he perceived that he’d been talked at, talked

  “The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.” Paul Watzlawick (Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher)   Way too many leaders are hindered because they haven’t received useful, succinct, granular feedback about their leadership behaviours from their boss, their peers and/or their team members. And

Way too many leaders aren’t having regular one-on-one meetings with each of their team members. And there’s a powerful cost when you sidestep having these interactions…   Why Is It Vital That You Have Regular Meetings With Each Team Member? Let’s think about the key positive outcomes that flow from you hosting good, one-on-one team

A telltale sign of a great leader is that they have “behavioural flexibility”… Great leaders aren’t always tough, or always friendly, or always futuristic in their thinking. They have the capacity to be all those things, plus some—depending on what sort of situation they’re confronting. They have many arrows in their quiver, many tools in