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Sleep for Performance

Senior executive failure[1] is often due to poor sleep. Other factors include anxiety, low self-confidence, low energy-levels and poor diet. In this paper, let’s address the very common issues of sleep which affect many executives, whether they have the stress of a new job or not!

Lack of sleep leads to poorer decisions. Our ability to pay good attention to others is poor when we are very tired. We may miss valuable information too, but the quality of our relationships may be damaged! Surely, we want to hear others and make better decisions? If so, let’s give sleep some attention and change up!

First, let’s revalue the importance of sleep to the level of ‘work importance’. Ranking sleep value to this level should ensure that we follow-through and make behavioral change and make a positive difference to our daily enjoyment and efficiency.

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Senior Meeting Efficacy

Introduction

How do you significantly improve the efficacy of a senior management team’s meetings?

Certain practical steps will create engagement, co-trust, increased creativity and more broadly-resourced solutions. Let’s start with the values that drive change, and how to apply those values.

Values Driving Change – The Big Ticket Answers

  • Values are worthless without application.
  • Values will not drive change without clarity in terms of actual behaviors and performance. Ideally, behaviors and performance are measured and benchmarked.
  • You cannot see or measure a value – but, you can spot and measure a behavior or performance! So we must look to behavior and performance measures to create a difference. To start with, let’s define some values and then show how to apply them.
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Leadership & Motivation – Video Tips

Manage Self and Others Smarter


How to Engage with your staff, gain trust and, help them develop

The next video #2 (and nine more; almost 2 hours in total) can be found here on YouTube

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Emotional Intelligence Model

To Drive Self-Awareness to Self-Managing, to test from specific feedback and make deliberate change

Seek specific (contextualized) feedback like this:

When we were {place/time: in that meeting at 9am today} I made some comments about three key areas that help us win business and I noticed that Brenda did not contribute after that and I think was avoiding eye-contact with me. If there was ‘one thing[1]’ that I could have done better, what is that ‘one thing’?

To Drive Awareness of Others to Managing Others and to test new and more impactful approaches

Ask questions that invite your understanding of their values, sense of identity, beliefs, needs, wants, motivations and de-motivators:

Arun, I’m interested in how you approached success with the Comcast business. You seemed more highly engaged than usual… if there was one thing that drove your engagement like that, what is that one thing?


[1] The presupposition of there being one thing stimulates the brain and opens a neural pathway. The question ‘what is that one thing’ invites an answer in the present stimulating the same neural pathway. This tends to lead to a developmental answer/feedback and other questions and answers may follow once started.

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Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence (EI) leverages success. Many executives slowly gain EI over a life-time from learning whether pleasant or painful! But we can all learn faster – here are some insights for how to do just that, and stay ahead before the pain hits! Just SEVEN minutes!

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Coaching for Leaders – Digital Apps

gnowbe_ipad2In cooperation with Gnowbe.com Angus McLeod has produced digital learning apps including a portfolio of apps under the umbrella titles: ‘Coaching for Leaders’.

These apps have high participative levels/retention and high certification/completion levels. They upskill international workers with leader-skills based upon leader and coaching skills for leveraging their work-based skills immediately. Supported by cohort-based social media on the Gnowbe platform itself, learners are able to share real-time across all time zones, helping to create new behaviors and a common vernacular upon which teams build their leveraging talent for productive team-work across continents. Continue reading Coaching for Leaders – Digital Apps

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Leader Qualities: Supportive of Individuals

dog1Research shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Supportive of People. Continue reading Leader Qualities: Supportive of Individuals

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Leader Qualities: Interested in Individuals

dog-interestedResearch shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Interested in Colleagues. Continue reading Leader Qualities: Interested in Individuals

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Leader Qualities: Authentic

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Research shows there are 11 key Leader Qualities with one having a sub-set of 8 characteristics. Of the 19 Leader Qualities, 7 of them are ‘Trust Factors’. These are listed again below, together with a fuller description for Trust Factor: Authenticity.

 

 

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