Leadership

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.

Once people start to ruminate, they often find it quite difficult to ‘stop it’. We tend to tell ourselves ‘stop ruminating’ – only to notice that it’s hard to control these unwelcome thoughts. Here’s 5 tips you might find useful.

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.

Having an engaged and aligned team is one of the most satisfying experiences for a leader. Here’s 5 tips to create that engagement & alignment.

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

Is there a way leaders can combine ‘no compromise on the ambitions’, with ‘no burning self or team members’? In our experience, there is a high road to sustainable peak performance: making sure to ‘ask’ and ‘give’ enough. With regards to self and others.

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.

True achievers often struggle with the idea of ‘becoming more detached’. Because achievers don’t want to lose their drive. Losing their drive would be losing their identity… or not living up to ‘what they are made for’… Here’s the 5 steps we use in our coaching to help manage the drive more effectively.

Do you get really nervous when the internet is slow? Frenetically push the ‘close door’ button when you are in an elevator? Always in a hurry? Quickly losing your temper? Less decisive than before? Chances are you are putting more demands on yourself than is ideal, pushing yourself so hard that you arrived in the unsustainable zone of ‘diminishing returns’. It’s time to take action and get your life in balance again. Defining your list of ‘personal operating principles’ will prove very effective.

Too much stress in your life? Wrong question! It’s not the intensity of stress that matters, it’s the sustainability. Stress is not a mono-dimensional indicator; like a cash-flow statement, stress has two entries: burden or exposure on the negative side; and tolerance or resistance on the positive side. Your stress sustainability is simply your net stress score (tolerance – burden). Knowing your burden and tolerance levels, generates precise stress tactics; knowing your net stress score, generates your stress strategy. It’s very actionable.