Are you a Good Boss or Just Think You Are? How Honest Self-Assessment Builds Your Leadership Impact
Publication: Growth Strategies | Leadership approach | Leadership Gap | Warning Signs
Gallup’s latest report records that global employee engagement fell last year, costing the world economy US$438 billion in lost productivity. At the heart of this decline was a drop in manager engagement, a stark reminder that leadership effectiveness is not just a personal achievement but a critical organisational asset. In a world of relentless complexity, leaders who […]
How to Deal with Passive-Aggressive Behaviour at Work
Publication: Deployed Strategies | Passive-Aggressive Behaviour | Team Environment | Warning Signs
At some point in your career, you may encounter a team member or colleague who is acting passive-aggressively. You know the type. You can sense an underlying tension or aggression, but it’s not communicated directly. Instead, the behaviour is indirect and sometimes covert. The person expresses feelings and thoughts about situations in a way that’s […]
The Eight Signs Your Team isn’t a Team
Publication: Ineffective teams | Team Success | Warning Signs
If there’s a show about dancing, then it’s always on my ‘watch’ list, so I was excited when Dance Life was released. It chronicles the real-life experiences of dancers going through their final year at Sydney’s Brent Street dance school. The sheer talent of the dancers is breathtaking, but what impresses me is the teamwork. They rely […]
The best competition is with yourself
Publication: Competition calamities | Healthy competition | Reframe competition | Warning Signs
Whether the person takes credit for your work, always looks for ways to position themselves better to come out on top or finds fault with your work, no doubt at some stage in your career, you’ve worked with the overly competitive type. The need to compete can be personality-based, arise due to how a person […]
Seven tips for managing an entitled team member
Publication: Entitled team members | Team Management | Warning Signs
Working with an entitled team member is challenging, and so too is managing an entitled team member. Employees with high psychological entitlement morally rationalise their behaviour to explain workplace outcomes in a self-serving manner and still see themselves positively. Research shows they have lower levels of engagement, are more likely to engage in unethical behaviour, […]
Six Steps to Avoiding Burnout
Publication: Burnout Avoidance | Emotional load | Warning Signs
2022 is well underway, and for many of us, it feels like we are starting the year with an emotional hangover. Two years of COVID induced uncertainty and lockdowns has left us feeling tired and drained. Even the summer holidays didn’t leave us feeling recharged. While it’s not yet time to write 2022 off, there […]
Ten warning signs of bad leadership in your team
Publication: Bad Leadership | Warning Signs
It can be challenging as a leader to self-diagnose areas where you can do better. That difficulty often comes down to the gap between how you see yourself and how others actually experience you. At times, it can be even harder to accurately assess the effectiveness (or otherwise) of the leaders in your team. Sometimes, […]