Oct 24, 2020
Seven steps to modifying employee behaviour
As a team leader or manager, one of your primary responsibilities is to get your employees to produce desirable results through specific behaviours. To do this, you have [...]
Sep 14, 2020
Have you got bubbles?
How can you get a team functioning well? We’re talking a long time ago here, but I had the fortune or misfortune – depending on your point of view – of going to an [...]
Feb 17, 2021
The problem with accepting constructive feedback
Why is it that we are rarely enthusiastic about constructive feedback? Even when it’s helpful! There are three areas that I’d like to consider around this [...]
Dec 09, 2020
My mate Stevo said it was good and Norm just couldn’t wait his turn!
This blog is about team formation and effectiveness but it starts off at a barbeque we had a few weeks ago for some mates (and spouses) I went to uni with for my [...]
Sep 09, 2020
Leadership, Management and Feedback
Whenever I ask participants in the various management and leadership courses I run, what is the difference between leadership and management, invariably people on the [...]
Aug 12, 2020
How do you honk?
For anyone in a team, especially those in a Team Leader position, this is an oldie but a goldie! If you already know it, it is Lesson Four that I want to talk about in [...]
Sep 17, 2020
Telling people that their feet smell and other delightful office conversations
She arrives at her desk in the open-plan office, her feet, hot and sweaty. She takes off her shoes, switches on the small fan she’s bought to cool her feet and all [...]
Apr 03, 2021
Anatomy of a coach
Depending on your point of view, I had the good fortune or misfortune of going to a boys’ boarding school, where sport was a big deal. Lucky for me, I was okay at it and [...]
