Here today, I’ll outline three steps that will help you use the New Leadership ABCs to move from challenge to solution with your team in a way that encourages more purpose, drive, and autonomy. Designed to empower your team so that they find ways forward, Challenge to Solution is all about creating ownership. Whether it’s…
Can You Use The Leadership Compass With Teams?
We’ve all got different behavioural tendencies when it comes to communication. And we move frequently between different Leadership Compass quadrants in different contexts, as our friend Rupert has shown. So surely, the Leadership Compass is going to be difficult to apply in team situations – right? Fortunately, leaders, it doesn’t have to be! In this…
Navigating with the Leadership Compass
The last of my communication blogs considered some of the most effective ways to communicate consciously, using the Leadership Compass to identify four types of behaviours. We saw how Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow behaviour types look in our interactions, and how seeking out feedback about our preferences is an empowering way to practice Mind…
Formulating a Business Ambition
I’ve talked in my previous articles about how Ambition is rooted in our personality, and how it drives us and those around us forward, authentically, toward a future that matters. Now, this might seem like a funny question – but do bear with me: What do you think about hedgehogs? When it comes to formulating…
The Leadership Compass: 4 Types of Behavior
In my last blog, I introduced the Leadership Compass. I outlined how leaders can use the Compass to understand their communication preferences so that they can more consciously choose behaviours that will exert greater influence on others. I explained how reflecting on your behavioural preferences is empowering, and that by practising self-awareness and different approaches,…
Actions and Reactions: Understanding Influence
As humans, we all want to enhance our influence on others. But let’s start on the right foot… When I say influence, I don’t mean manipulate or coerce. When I say ‘influence,’ I’m using the term much more generally – to refer to the impact that we have on others every time we interact. When…
Communication: More Than Content
Engaging and motivating co-workers means respecting their need for status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, and fairness. Sounds easy, but is it? It can be, with good communication. In this blog, you’ll learn why good communication is more than just delivering content, and how you can improve your communication as a leader to boost engagement in your…
Why Culture Has Never Mattered More
So far, we have explored two leadership cornerstones – Ambition and Boundaries of the Leadership ABCs. So what’s the last piece of the puzzle, once we have authentic ambition and clear boundaries, driven by values and passion? In Mind Growing Leadership, I explain why Culture is the third piece of the puzzle. Quite interestingly, it…
Boundaries Matter!
So, you’ve found what matters to you as a leader – an ambition that comes from the heart. It’s the direction in which you’ll lead your people, your “WHY,” and your reason for getting out of bed every day. But now, how do you get there? Clear boundaries are the second cornerstone of the Mind…
Ambition Coming From the Core of Your Personality
The Leadership ABCs are at the very core of my book, Mind Growing. But while most leaders think “I’ve already got ambition!” there’s a little more to it… Your Ambition – the direction that both you and your team will engage with – needs to come from the heart. As I describe in my earlier…