How to help anyone, anytime with anything?
Most of us are born helpers, meaning it’s in our nature to try to help other people. Yet even though our intentions may be sound, at times we do not feel capable of helping. This is because we don’t have all the answers. Meanwhile, we believe that in order to help...
What do high performing leadership teams do differently?
Having worked with hundreds of executive leadership teams, I’ve been a witness to both teams that become high performing and produce breakthrough results, and others that stay mediocre at best. So the question that I continue to reflect on is this: What is the...
How to set-up discussions for success?
Many discussions in team meetings and off-sites start off poorly because the person leading or facilitating the discussion doesn’t do a great job in setting up the discussion for success. Because the set-up is weak, people are often unclear and/or confused and/or...
10 mistakes Chairs make before the first word is spoken
Meetings consume a big part of our lives at work. However, a vast majority of meetings fail to deliver an acceptable return on the time and energy that gets invested. Why is this so? I believe there are 3 contributing factors: 1. Poor quality of CHAIRING 2....
4 mistakes to avoid when wanting to add value
In today’s world, to out-delight your clients and to out-think and out-perform your competitors, you must be obsessed with adding more value than anyone else is adding in the marketplace. However in spite of this sincere intent and desire to “add massive...
The 3 MUST Conditions for High Quality Conversations
On 1 February 2003, space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) exploded over Texas and Louisiana, as it reentered the Earth’s atmosphere, killing the seven crew members onboard. The investigation that followed discerned that a piece of foam – only the size of a briefcase,...
The 7 Beliefs of a Powerful Chair
Meetings consume a big part of our lives at work. However, a vast majority of meetings fail to deliver an acceptable return on the time and energy that gets invested. Why is this so? I believe there are 3 contributing factors: 1. Poor quality of CHAIRING 2....
7 Most Common Types of “Gaps” in Life
The word “Gap” is defined as a space or interval between two things/states/situations/realities...the list goes on. Closing or rather narrowing the gap is how learning and growth occurs. The 7 most common gaps that I'm continually working to narrow are: 1. “KNOWING...
Engagement Action Planning : Avoid these 3 mistakes
For many organisations, it’s that time of the year when the results of the employee engagement survey come out, and leaders and teams start to pay closer attention to how the work force is feeling. Once the results are out, there is an expectation of a response as to...
The 2 Key Questions to Influencing anyone
We live in a busy and noisy world. We also live in a world where the number of things competing for our energies (physical, mental and emotional) far exceeds our available capacity. We are also living in a time where we have high degrees of choice. In such a world, to...
