I’m the new senior team leader. Now what?

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

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.

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...
Your Team’s Not Working: Why?

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 –...