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Reduce 35-47% Attrition
Losing new SVP and c-suite appointees, within months of starting their new jobs, is a common and continuing problem globally. The costs, inconvenience, work-culture impacts and embarrassment of having to dismiss them go beyond the direct financial costs.
It’s understood within leading HR and recruitment, that 1-2-1 coaching of these new senior staff can get them up and running faster. The right coach will help them be more flexible in their approach and quicker to gain followship, especially with hesitant staff and resistant work-cultures.
Here I offer tips for HR/Recruitment to make a winning case for external coaching[i] that is success-focused and does not display weakness of the HR/Recruitment function. Also, here are tips for engaging the best coaches; those who will deliver results leveraging very different individual needs, seamlessly.
Continue reading New Senior Executive Failures
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.
Continue reading Sleep for PerformanceThese 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?
Continue reading Influence – Light Touch CommunicationsPerfectionism 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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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.
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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Continue reading Leadership & Motivation – Video Tips
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.
Continue reading Emotional Intelligence ModelEmotional 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!