I have been facilitating meetings for a long time. From one on one meetings to large scale workshops, the one thing I always seem to encounter is the dynamic between over-talkers and, let’s call them, under-talkers. We have all experienced this scenario: we’re in a meeting; a few dominant people take over a conversation. They […]
“People don’t quit bad organisations, they quit bad leaders” – every person who’s ever left a company In my last blog, I wrote about a significant paradigm shift that is happening in how leaders lead. Our future leaders will and must lead in a more human way, one that engages talent at all levels of the […]
Scientific management is dead. Our world increasingly needs us to show up in a more human way, and we can see more and more evidence of it if we carefully look around. Research from the global consultancies and predictions for the future of work all point to the increasing need to be more human. In […]
It has remained a conundrum to me that leadership development often does not achieve its goal of developing leaders. In HBR’s well known article on “Why Leadership Training Fails”, the authors reported a staggering $356 billion globally in 2015 was spent on leadership development and also found in their research that the financial investments rarely […]
Much of my career has been spent helping people discover what great leadership is. Current research points to checklists of attributes and competencies that leaders should possess in order to be the perfect leader – attributes such as being visionary, authentic, empathetic, a great communicator, adaptable, strategic, etc. The list goes on and on. I […]
