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Transformation: In Just One Year
DON’T TELL ANYONE… WE’VE BEEN DOING EXPERIMENTS
Part of leadership is experimentation.
Successful leaders have the capacity to try, fail, learn, and grow as part of actively continuing their own self-development. They are willing to take informed risks and learn through trial and error.
5 Ways to Mess Up: Monumentally
A PORTRAIT. A MIRROR?
Nobody wants to mess up, but sometimes we do.
Sometimes we don’t ‘see the wood for the trees’, or the flaws in our own actions because we are focused on guiding, and perhaps judging, the actions of others.
Delegation: Getting It Right
WHAT A DOA IS..
The definition of ‘delegation of authority’ (DOA) is reasonably straight forward and most variations yield a similar meaning.
Reading Leaders: 3 Recommended Essentials
AHHH…..SUMMER!
As you read this (assuming, of course, that you’re located in the northern hemisphere) it’s likely that some summer R&R is on your mind, and hopefully, on your calendar too!
Understanding what ‘mindfulness’ is reveals potential for helping Leaders be better!
#MINDFULNESS?
In the past two decades mindfulness has entered mainstream culture and continues to rise in popularity, thus our assumption is that readers have heard of it!
However, as with many things which become very popular and widely promulgated, what exactly mindfulness is (and isn’t) may remain a little fuzzy for some.
4 More Models to Powerfully Enhance Effective Leadership!
‘Only four?’, we heard you thinking, after enjoying our recent article where we shared our favourite models for thinking and leading differently. You were right! “Elements for High Performance”, “Strategic Barriers Analysis”, “Strategic Priorities Matrix” and the PCT Model were only part of the 8 models which made the cut during the original brainstorm for what became that, and now this article! So, in this edition, we reveal the remaining four models which we have found over and over again to have amazing impacts on shifting thinking, empowering leaders and driving change.
An Effectively Managed Board Significantly Amplifies an SME’s Evolution
It will be no surprise that a successful board is one that is ‘run well’.
However, especially for SMEs and family-owned businesses just beginning with, or perhaps yet to evolve to the point of having a formal board, the grasp of what the nuts and bolts of ‘running a board’ may be a little loose.
4 Models to Powerfully Enhance Effective Leadership
The concept behind this edition of Changeosity Insights is a little… different to our usual articles. And ‘different’ is exactly what it’s about!
In what follows, we share a quick introduction to four conceptual models that, in our experience, are really powerful mechanisms for helping founders and leaders shift to thinking differently in various stages of their business journey.
Leaders can Supercharge Change Projects by Using the Right Change Management Approach
Did you make any New-Year Resolutions for 2023?
Or does the anecdotal evidence and, perhaps, personal experience of just how many resolutions don’t ‘stick’ leave you disinclined to join in the enthusiastic cacophony of family, friends, and colleagues declaring their resolutions during the festive season?
Assessing and Managing Risk is Essential but need not be Onerous or Overwhelming
Risk is a concept which we, as humans, have an interesting relationship with.
If you pause to contemplate it, a great many value and character judgements made in relation to individuals and circumstances where this small, four-letter word is applied, will no doubt come to mind.
Critical for Success, Strong Strategy can be Simple, Elegant and Sustainable
For a growing family-owned business or SME experiencing challenges and pain points, strategy should be viewed as the starting point for evolution and transformation.
Many entrepreneurs begin with a vision and a plan, and this can carry a new business in its initial stages. However, tactics and ‘a plan’ are not the same as strategy.
How Concepts from Psychology can Help Establish Positive Team Dynamics
The experience of leading a team where conflict, fracturing or some other kind of dysfunction arises or persists, despite the best efforts of a leader to resolve or neutralise the impacts would, understandably, prompt frustration.
Such an experience is also likely to give rise to questions such as ‘What’s going on?’ and ‘Why does this keep happening?.’
Fostering Workplace Positivity Can Be Low Cost and Low Maintenance
Understandably, company founders and entrepreneurs are more likely to excited by and passionate about discussing their product and vision than the dry and, perhaps, enervating aspects of business which are grouped under the title ‘Governance’.
An Advisory Board Gives Your SME a Performance Advantage
Understandably, company founders and entrepreneurs are more likely to excited by and passionate about discussing their product and vision than the dry and, perhaps, enervating aspects of business which are grouped under the title ‘Governance’.
Make Better Decisions, By Making Decisions Better
What works? What is creating bottlenecks, disempowerment, and roadblocks to growth? How do you bring about change?
Participants in the CEO Roundtable discussed the ways in which having an effective governance and decision-making approach is key when moving beyond being a stagnant or struggling medium size company. However, one challenge is honestly evaluating and effectively refining the approach taken to decision making.
