Category Archives: Leadership
3 signs to look for when a team member is about to quit
If you don’t want a valued team member to quit, you need to pay attention to them and watch the signals carefully. In my experience, here are three strong signals of someone intending to quit. 1️⃣ They start using all … Continue reading
Friends, we all have an opinion on the return to office mandates.
Now some of you are people leaders who are struggling with trying to get your teams to comply with this mandate – even though your own perspectives on the subject may differ from the organisational one. Here is a useful … Continue reading
People leaders: If someone in your team is not meeting your expectations, what are you NOT seeing?
Could it be that: 📳 the role has changed and this person is bored? ✝ this team member is experiencing personal issues? 💠 other team members are creating friction for this person? ✳ you have been distracted and not giving … Continue reading
You’ve been asked a question in a meeting and you don’t know the answer. What do you do?
Some people think that not knowing the answer to a question posed to you by a senior leader is detrimental to your image. So they sweat on ensuring they know everything. But, senior leaders will respect those who are honest … Continue reading
My number 1 key to successful project delivery
You can try to contain scope, juggle the budget, and negotiate the timelines, but there is one factor I watch like a hawk to ensure my projects remain successful. The key is: purpose-driven communication. I know that I have a … Continue reading
3 Steps to Polished Presentation Skills
Friends, Have you ever been in a meeting or presentation where the speaker sounded so polished and confident that you wished you could communicate like them? Well, you can! With a little practice, you too can sound like a top-notch … Continue reading
Have you ever been in a meeting where someone hogs the microphone?
And then afterwards, you and a few colleagues discuss how no one else got a chance to say anything? The key question here is this: What stopped YOU from voicing your thoughts? Sometimes, we feel that in discussions, someone should … Continue reading
Sometimes, it’s important to lower your expectations
I have always highlighted the importance of forming connections with people, and strengthening your ties with your network. But here is something I should have also highlighted. When you ping someone with the intent to form a connection via a … Continue reading
The dark side of resilience training.
Learning and development in organisations is crucial for people development. And there are many types of training that are useful, practical and informative. Except resilience training. Resilience training often is code for this: We are about to implement wide-scale changes … Continue reading
An unforeseen and even bigger problem to a harsh solution
So friends, I will be the first to say I don’t have in-depth information about this subject. And I probably have a western bias to this topic. But I do wonder what officials were thinking when the Chinese imposed the … Continue reading