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What your team needs before more clarity
I've been thinking about what actually enables a senior team to perform at a higher level. It's a question most team leaders find themselves pondering at some point, usually after reflecting that there’s more in the team tank that that is not being tapped into. How do...
Is your team ready for the next level of growth?
Can we talk for a moment about an uncomfortable truth? The behaviours that made you successful earlier in your career are often the very behaviours that prevent you from succeeding at the next level. To succeed in a senior team, you have to replace habits that...
What a long run of success does to a senior team
Give a senior team three or four successful years together and it develops a kind of fluency. People know who knows what. Decisions get made faster because less has to be spelled out each time. Trust is high, and it has been earned the hard way. Fluency in the team is...
Developing Leadership Confidence & Clarity
The Context and Challenge My client Andy had recently stepped into his first senior leadership role as Head of Corporate Affairs. While it was an exciting opportunity, he quickly found himself challenged by self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the pressure to prove...
Is Your Team Really Collaborating or Merely Coordinating?
I’m going to guess that if you were to ask any senior team whether they collaborate well, most will say “of course we do.” I’m not so sure. Both attitude and relationship dimensions impact on successful cross-functional or cross-boundary collaboration. I appreciate...
Does your team actually talk about how you work together?
Take a computing giant like Apple. Typically they will release a major operating system up date for their phones annually. Usually these major updates come with new features, but if you are an iPhone user, you will have noticed that Apple also releases incremental...
I didn’t mean to do that!
Have you ever stopped to think that you may be, unintentionally, creating silos in your team? It's natural to think, "of course I'm not creating silos". But the honest truth is that we sometimes do this unwittingly and unintentionally. We do it through...
The need for adaptability
Resilience in your senior team isn’t just about pushing through irrespective of the challenges There’s something we don’t seem to talk about enough in senior teams. Leadership adaptability. Not in terms of strategy or market positioning – we’re all well-versed in...
Senior Team Collaboration: More challenging than you think.
This topic has bothered me for some time. Maybe its been on your mind too. Why is it that despite genuine intent, and in some case, honest effort, true collaboration in senior teams is rarely fully achieved. At first glance, your team might seem to be working...
I’m the new senior team leader. Now what?
Joining a senior team as the new leader can be a defining moment. The temptation is to act fast. To prove yourself. But senior teams don’t change overnight. Relationships take time. Trust isn’t built in a few weeks. Culture doesn’t shift because of a speech. The real...
Top 10 Leadership Challenges Today
The chances are, you or your senior team leaders are facing one or more of these challenges. Taken from recent research(1), the top ten leadership challenges facing leaders in our post pandemic and turbulent economic climate may come as no surprise to you. Yet...
Teams Need More Conflict; Not less.
You may read the title of this article and think, ‘What? That can’t be right!’ I don’t blame you. In the vast majority of team workshops on this subject, I would say approximately 80-85 percent of participants tend to draw negative connotations when asked their...
Leadership Confidence: We are our own worst enemy
Why is it we can be our own worst enemy when it comes to leadership confidence? Have you ever felt like you’ve landed a leadership role and immediately questioned if you’re the right person for the job? You’re not alone. Leadership confidence, or the lack of it, is a...
Are workplace wellbeing initiatives really a waste of time?
Does your organisation have a clear view of what workplace wellbeing actually means? Do you have a defined strategy, or perhaps you’ve already rolled out initiatives? Many companies focus on perks—gym memberships, wellness apps, or Employee Assistance Programs...
Your Team’s Not Working: Why?
Let’s face it not all teams are high performing and not all teams are actually teams. These were a couple of the ideas that I explored recently with my good friend and colleague Richard Hurd in the latest episode of my GOBO – Glimpses Of the Blindingly Obvious –...
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