Leadership

Changing self is not easy. Getting others to change even less so. No wonder so many change efforts fail. Here’s 5 tips to be more effective when trying to inspire others to adopt new ways of working.

Our mind often runs on « automatic pilot ». This book shows 6 ‘weapons’ people use to influence us, exploiting our tendency not to think straight but to run on ‘automatic pilot’.

Body language builds or breaks the message people convey. Strong body language makes people come across as ‘in charge’ and competent. Poor body language makes people look weak and doubting. Here’s 5 tips to improve your own body language (and thus have more impact).

We often have executives share how difficult it is to get others to act as wished for. Are there areas in your professional (or personal) life where others are not doing what you want? Here is some advice.

It’s not always easy to manage up. Some bosses seem unrealistic in their expectations. Others never show satisfaction with the work done. Still others seem to think you would never do the right things without their guidance or control. And then there’s the ones who don’t realize you are already putting an overload of pressure on yourself and your teams.

Storytelling is a very effective means to inspire people, and you too can learn it by adopting the right mindset, choosing the right topics, and using the techniques explained in the book.

Ever spent a lot of time defining a compelling vision for your company or team, polishing it until it was a true ‘pearl’, sharing it at key meetings – yet still hearing comments in the corridors (or in surveys) that the vision is not clear? Or facing a blank when one team member cannot express it? A frustrating experience… shared by so many leaders…

Instead of breeding undifferentiated, average ‘homo corectus’, wouldn’t it be better to encourage the development of outstanding and complementary ‘homo distinctus’?

What if, notwithstanding all your efforts, the collaboration with a colleague or with your boss turns out to be very difficult – and doesn’t produce the desired results? In this newsletter we share one of the most powerful leadership phrases to successfully handle such situation.