I’ve learned at lot about leadership and management in my time, but the one thing that I really learnt through practical experience, is that leadership (or management) is a minute by minute experience.I can set goals in the morning for my intended outcomes; I can be...
Leadership is 75% communication. In fact so important is effective communication for our leaders that it just about tops every list of preferred leadership traits.“But,’ disagreed one leader “I can’t communicate every little decision that the board...
It’s Monday morning and I’ve just spend an hour deciphering, decoding and deleting a pile of emails; very few of which were of importance in either my professional or my personal life.It is really incredible how this insidious means of communication has stolen in...
Or … Making Group Discussions Really Work.Simon was looking particularly glum when I bumped into him recently, and it didn’t take long to find out the problem. He had been detailed to lead the monthly get together at work; to receive reports on progress,...
We ran away this weekend … disappeared for a few days. Became incommunicado in fact (which is why the blog is a little late).We just wanted to relax and get away, and so we ended up in a nearby little coastal town just north of Brisbane. And it was a...