Sharpen your strengths
- Durable / Leadership Instead of breeding undifferentiated, average ‘homo corectus’, wouldn’t it be better to encourage the development of outstanding and complementary ‘homo distinctus’?
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Aligning 2 stars
- Esprit d'équipe What happens when 2 members of a Leadership Team don’t get along? Two ExCo members having opposite views or positions. Two functional heads that think of each other as incompetent. Two n-3 ambitioning the same and unique n-2 job.
The high road to sustainable peak performance
- Durable / Leadership 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.
When managing down or managing up doesn’t produce the desired results…
- Durable / Leadership 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.
How to handle dysfunctional characters during meetings?
- Esprit d'équipe After the six generic steps to handle dysfunctional behavior, here are some typical cases that require specific actions. Here is your user’s guide – not to say your safety net or your antidote – to handle the 16 most common and typical dysfunctional characters.
How to handle dysfunctional behavior during meetings?
- Esprit d'équipe The meeting is supposed to start now. Yet half of the participants are not present. And the present half is more busy with finding coffee, chatting or checking their emails. Latecomers at their worst, distractors at their best. Mild dysfunctional behavior? Mild maybe but repetitive and costly! And then, in the middle of your well-thought process, one stands up and things you should be doing differently, putting your process into question and suggesting alternative ways to proceed. And another starts telling an endless story about how it has been done in the past. Process interferes at short, storytellers at length. Serious dysfunctional behavior? Serious and damaging…
5 steps for achievers to go from ‘stress & overdrive’ to their ‘peak performance zone’
- Durable / Leadership 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.
Dream big – and make it happen
- Positif ‘If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll end up some place else’. This statement proves very true for executive presentations, business meetings, … but also for life as a whole. Clarity provides power. It allows to notice the right opportunities, to choose the right actions and to achieve what otherwise … wouldn’t even have been on your radar screen. Here are a few suggestions as ‘what to dream about’ and how to make it happen…
Define your personal operating principles
- Durable / Leadership 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.
Enrollment gets teams moving – Compliance doesn’t
- Esprit d'équipe You know exactly what your team needs to do. You know precisely how they should do it. But they keep on doing things differently. The wrong ‘what’, the wrong ‘how’, and poor results. If after many sessions of (im)patiently listening and trying to influence them, things don’t change, chances are you are either thinking about buying a book on ‘influencing skills’, or you have decided to make use of your authority to get your point of view implemented. Well – set yourself up for additional moments of disappointment, because in most cases that’s the result you’re most likely to reach.