Don’t leave your team to fill in the gaps
2nd July 2018
When Leading through Change we can share the WHAT & HOW of the plan but at times fail to offer the missing link that is the WHY.
Change Insights
Coaching Ants
16th June 2016
Watch an ant become trapped inside a circle drawn onto a sheet of paper, endlessly trapped by its own perception of an insurmountable barrier.
Fuelling Team Performance
29th March 2016
Read the rest of this entry »
Jayne works in a large technology based business, heading up the Design division and a team of 50. Like many other leaders in any given week she attends numerous meetings, which she says can vary in productivity and experience. We asked her to have a loaf about why this might be…
High Performing Businesses – does size matter?
15th March 2016
One of the most exciting things about business today is that large and small organisations are playing in the same playground. The advent of the information age, along with rapid technological advancements, have given birth to a global marketplace where everyone is invited.
Read the rest of this entry »
Create a change… and a smile!
23rd February 2016
This morning, I left the house late, kids were bundled out of the car (near thrown out)… and then I hit traffic! After a deep sigh, I let a car in the queue in front of me. Then something interesting happened – the car I had let in, let the car in front of them, and then the new joiner offered up space to a third car.
I smiled – one simple change in my behavior had created 2 other changes and I smiled a bigger smile when I started to wonder how many more would join our chain on the rush hour journey?!
Go on… create a chain-reaction-change today… along with a smile!
Rocks. Pebbles. Sand.
1st December 2015
The old story goes that a world-weary professor silently walks into his lecture theatre with a large glass jar, and starts filling it with rocks. Once he has done this, he asks the class – “Is the jar full?”. The students see that the rocks have reached the top of the jar and respond – “Yes”.
The professor then produces a bag of pebbles and commences to pour it into the jar. The pebbles neatly fill the gaps between the rocks. Once again the professor asks – “Is the jar full?”, and once again the class responds – “Yes”. Read the rest of this entry »
Teach a Man(ager) to Fish
11th November 2015
The saying goes something like this…
“Give a man a fish
and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish
and he’ll eat for a lifetime.”
This concept was used to great effect in the iconic Oxfam Advert in the 1990s.
The message was simple, yet brilliant… the starving people in Africa didn’t need a charitable handout that kept them one step away from the poverty line for the rest of their lives, dependent on foreign handouts forever. What they needed was the skills and training to work themselves out of poverty. Read the rest of this entry »
Ramsay’s recipe for Change…
28th October 2015
Whilst watching Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen recently it got us thinking about the recipe he uses to help businesses make change happen and grow. We wanted to share the key ingredients we see him using, and we promise there won’t be any cursing on our menu!
Permission to say that…
19th October 2015
Why do we sometimes hold back and don’t give ourselves permission to say what we really want to say? Maybe because its a difficult message, maybe it might make us a bit vulnerable, maybe we just don’t think its business like to share what we are feeling as well as thinking?
Read the rest of this entry »
Oops…right intention wrong impact!
30th September 2015
Have you ever said something only to quickly realise that it didn’t quite land as you intended, and has had completely the wrong impact on the other person? We see this happening a lot in business!!!
in