What Keeping People Waiting Says About Your Leadership
Publication: leadership | respect | Time management | Trust | Workplace Culture
Years ago, I was told to arrive thirty minutes early for a presentation to the Board, just in case they were running ahead of schedule. They weren’t. I sat outside that boardroom for four hours. Then, my sixty-minute presentation got cut to thirty minutes. Then fifteen. Then ten. Eventually, the door opened, and I was told […]
Bored at Work? Pay Attention
Publication: Career Development | Employee Engagement | leadership | Meaningful Work | workplace boredom
You are three slides into an update when you realise you stopped listening two slides ago. Your eyes are on the screen. You may even look attentive, but your mind has quietly gone elsewhere. Or perhaps it is the report you have written so many times that it has become almost automatic. The meeting where you know what […]
Who Holds the Leader? Why Authentic Leadership Needs Trusted Challenge
Publication: Authentic Leadership | decision making | leadership | leadership isolation | mentoring
Recently, several senior leaders have asked me for advice as they navigated genuinely difficult situations. There were complex relationships, competing expectations and decisions with no obvious or risk-free answer. I asked questions and challenged assumptions, offered analysis and different perspectives, and we worked through options. Yet when they later reflected on what had helped the […]
Vietnam.vn: People skills are always a competitive advantage.
Publication: Emotional intelligence | Future of Work | leadership | people skills | workplace skills
Michelle Gibbings, a leadership expert, shares her perspective on why people skills remain a powerful competitive advantage in an increasingly technology-driven workplace. This article was originally published by Vietnam.vn. In the age of AI, the ability to communicate, empathize, and influence is key to career advancement. The development of artificial intelligence is forcing many working […]
The Negotiation Trap That Starts Before The Conversation Begins
Publication: BATNA | decision making | influence | leadership | negotiation
Early in my career, I was involved in a high-stakes negotiation that required far more preparation than I had expected. Before we entered the room, we went through intensive negotiation training. We prepared the issues, mapped the stakeholders, tested our assumptions and rehearsed how the conversation might unfold. At that time, I thought that succeeding […]
The Blind Spot That Power Creates at the Negotiating Table
Publication: decision making | leadership | negotiation | Perspective-taking | power
In 2006, researchers from Northwestern University, New York University and Stanford ran a deceptively simple experiment. They handed participants a marker and asked them to draw the capital letter E on their own forehead. There are two ways to do it. You can orient the E so you can read it yourself, which produces a […]
In The Black: What Can You Expect From the New Generation of Millennial Leaders?
Publication: leadership | millennials | organisations
Millennials had leaders scratching their heads when they first entered the workforce in the late 1990s. Now that this generation is stepping into leadership roles of their own, what might we expect? Thanks to Susan Muldowney and In The Black, in this article, Michelle Gibbings, an expert in leadership developmnet, was invited to share her […]
Corporate Dojo: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can’t Stay
Publication: bad boss | leadership | podcast
In this Work Savvy podcast, join Karen Gately and Michelle Gibbings, an accomplished author, global keynote speaker, and workplace culture expert, to discuss the High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can’t Stay. Karen and Michelle explore: Real cost of poor leadership The need for leadership at all levels of the organisation The criticality […]
Fast Company: A 7-point Strategy for Leaders to Approach Any Ethical Challenges
Publication: decision making | ethics | leadership
Taking the right approach to ethical challenges benefits your leadership, drives innovation, and creates a more sustainable platform for your organization to grow. Thanks to Fast Company, Michelle shares her 7-point strategy for leaders. Ethical challenges will arise in any business as leaders confront uncertainty, complexity, and new decisions as technology, particularly generative AI, changes […]
Leader’s Digest: Is Your Leadership on Auto-Pilot?
Publication: influence | leadership | performance
Thanks to Leader’s Digest, Michelle explains how leaders often rely on their familiar strategies, using a ‘go-to’ approach they believe has worked before. This can put their leadership on auto-pilot, leading to surprises when things don’t go as planned. Many years ago, when I was travelling in the US, I came across the story of […]