A useful book on communcation
Conversations for Change: 12 Ways to Say it Right When it Matters Most
by Shawn Kent Hayashi.
Shawn introduces some highly useful and important ideas that contribute to effective communication – essential for building trust and buy-in from your people. It contains useful metaphors and concepts that any leader or manager will find highly relevant, practical and easy to implement.
Those ideas include:
Why emotional intelligence is so important in leadership – According ...
The Power of Habit
Charles Duhigg has written a powerful book that is a must read for anyone serious about leadership and success.
In The Power of Habit, he documents how our everyday actions are governed by habits and how changing even one habit can have a massive domino effect. One case study worth mentioning concerns how Alcoa, a US Aluminum manufacturing company turned around the company culture with just one small change.
In 1987, at a time when people were more focused on maximising profits than ...
Assume Success
Here’s a quick tip on how you can be a more astute and successful leader (and person).
Whenever you set a goal or start a project, assume you’ll succeed. Then look for evidence – small and large – to prove you’re headed in the right direction.
The brain scans our environment five times per second picking up clues to tell it how to respond. If you prime your brain to notice evidence of success or failure that’s what you’ll see. You’ll then look for ...
Assume Success
Here’s a quick tip on how you can be a more astute and successful leader (and person).
Whenever you set a goal or start a project, assume you’ll succeed. Then look for evidence – small and large – to prove you’re headed in the right direction.
The brain scans our environment five times per second picking up clues to tell it how to respond. If you prime your brain to notice evidence of success or failure that’s what you’ll see. You’ll then look for ...
Five Ways to be a Smart Leader
I feel a bit silly here. Since my book was published, I’ve been writing and speaking a lot about different aspects of leadership but still haven’t shared the actual model that was the framework for my whole book!
The SHAPES model shows the interrelated pillars of leadership excellence, inside a context for integrity that translates into success when action is taken. There are too many nuances for a single blog, but I’ll start with one element. Since it is intuitive to start at ...
The Importance of Random Acts of Kindness
Take a moment and write down how many people you’ve come into contact today. How many people you have connected with. How many you have spoken with (even for a moment) looked at, stood or sat near, emailed, or in some way communicated with.
Then think about this.
Every single one of those moments was an opportunity to make a difference to that person.
Every single one of those moments was a chance to not only make their day a little better, but to increase your own happiness.
Human ...
10 Lessons From the Coalface
As a coach who assists people and companies to be successful, I would love to say that on my side business is always running smoothly.
Yeah, right.
There isn’t anyone out there who hasn’t started or run a business and not experienced some down time and challenges. It’s what it means to take risks and is inescapable. It also is what enables us to succeed – if we can learn from both our wins and losses.
Carol Dweck is a proponent of being an open learner – seeing ...
10 Lessons From the Coalface
As a coach who assists people and companies to be successful, I would love to say that on my side business is always running smoothly.
Yeah, right.
There isn’t anyone out there who hasn’t started or run a business and not experienced some down time and challenges. It’s what it means to take risks and is inescapable. It also is what enables us to succeed – if we can learn from both our wins and losses.
Carol Dweck is a proponent of being an open learner – seeing ...
Remember, Your People are Human Beings
As a volunteer mentor of the Smart Leaders Network, a global mentoring initiative, I have had the privilege of mentoring Ali Raza, an IT manager in Pakistan, assisting him in developing critical leadership skills and thinking.
Ali Raza on Skype
On the surface, we are a very unlikely pair. Me, a New York Jewish woman living in Australia and Ali, a Pakistani, Muslim man living in Pakistan.
Yet, at the source level, we are both two human beings committed to leadership excellence in the ...
Remember, Your People are Human Beings
As a volunteer mentor of the Smart Leaders Network, a global mentoring initiative, I have had the privilege of mentoring Ali Raza, an IT manager in Pakistan, assisting him in developing critical leadership skills and thinking.
Ali Raza on Skype
On the surface, we are a very unlikely pair. Me, a New York Jewish woman living in Australia and Ali, a Pakistani, Muslim man living in Pakistan.
Yet, at the source level, we are both two human beings committed to leadership excellence in the ...
