Leading with trust to find solutions

Trust is essential in leadership and followership. The word trust seems to come up time and time again in my conversations with leaders. When we talk, leaders say, “of course, we have high trust

Fear is harming your business. 5 Ways to spot it

Fear as a management tool is common place still. Even though it’s impact is so negative on every level, fear is still the foundation of many managers toolkit. It’s not their fault, but I often

Leadership Tip. TRUST

Leadership Tip: Trust Leaders tend to fall into two camps when it comes to trust. They either trust first, believing that everyone comes to work to do their best work or they believe trust must be earned

10 essentials tips for 1st time Managers

Congratulations you are a Manager The first Management role you have is always exciting and terrifying at the same time. Others have seen some talent in you so you probably have the right skills and attitude

The 5 biggest employee engagement mistakes you don’t want to make

Employee engagement (EE) has now become vanilla. It is so common and regurgitated everywhere that many people are simply missing the point and making big mistakes. So the theory is sound. 87% of employees

Leadership Conversations

My Story – Why I do what I do.

More and more I am being asked why I do what I do and what drives me. It feels really strange to share my story as I have always been preoccupied by understanding other people and exploring why we do what

The little known communication mistake that Leaders make that shut down their people

From my experience working with leaders of business, their intentions are generally good. Most of the decisions they make are for the right reasons but sometimes the impact they have wasn’t quite

What to do when the carrot and stick stop working

Many businesses have created motivational and performance structures around the carrot and the stick approach, but what do you do when the carrot and the stick stop working. The truth is they probably