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Influence – Light Touch Communications

These are quick and easy communications. They are sent within texting platforms, to help stakeholders, at all levels, know that you are still there and investing effort in them; not just asking (pressuring) them for something. This is an often overlooked aspect of leadership communication and effective with LOW effort!

Mitigate misunderstandings and improve mutual trust

Stakeholders can be prospect-customers, customers, your staff-members, peers, senior-staff and key supply-chain folks. Work is busy and some of them may be neglected by us, unless we use a CRM[1] with timed actions that we set-up. Light-touches are not heavy on your time, or theirs! The majority of timed actions, emails, calls and meetings are heavy on our management time and often are unnecessary. How do we know what is necessary to maintain great working relationships and where needed, meet our due diligence requirements for standards?

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Perfectionism – A Better Approach

Perfectionism can be a strength but so often, executives fail to discriminate between those projects/outputs needing 100% perfection and those requiring less perfection. That can lead to time-stress, stressing of colleagues, poor decisions and poor work/life balance and relationships. A better approach is my ‘Triage System’ adapted to suit every individual. Here, Dr. Angus I. McLeod explains how in 6m 19s!

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Down Feeling – Fix Them!

Down Feelings are a human blight, world over. Dr. Angus I. McLeod explains why they can occur and why they may disrupt your effectiveness and wellbeing. He then explains how to deal with them to work and live more contentedly! 6m 23s only.

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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

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Listening Leadership

Introduction

Exquisite Listening is at the heart of facilitating high performance in others. Listening is a key quality of leaders who mark themselves apart from managers who may dominate by directing.

When we listen well, we learn more about a person, about both their competences (practical and thinking styles) and about their motivations and de-motivations. We also learn how to influence them more effectively. Our influencing can then both inspire them to achieve at new levels but also to achieve with wellbeing, even when the demands we make, are over sustained periods.

A number of factors get in the way – awareness of these factors is a good place to start, so that strengths can be acknowledged and so gaps can be self-managed. The pathway to producing greater personal performance and satisfaction is then on track.

What gets in the way?

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Wellbeing at Work

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Well-Being & Healthy Thinking

A healthy ‘mindset’ assists in well-being. This is not just about how happy we feel right now, but also, how empowered we are to achieve our aims.

But, what is a mindset? At least three things are important, these are: values, beliefs and our sense of identity. Continue reading Wellbeing at Work

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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