Blogs
The Ageless Millennials
Increasingly we read about the multi-generational issues facing leaders in business - as they come to grips with up to four generations working in their teams. We read in various publications and blogs about the ways in which the Millennials differ from predecessor...
Harnessing the purpose of your Millennials
Reading an article produced by the author of the Career Engagement Game I was interested to see that Millennials are quickly creating the brand of having a two-year itch. Employers are not able to keep them longer than two years and yet they are the most motivated of...
Influencing skills when leading
Interestingly with at least three generations in any workplace at the moment - influencing skills have become increasingly important. What does this mean for the different generations? Well at the top of the tree - senior leadership teams - these leaders need to...
Kindness is the essence of courageous leadership
When watching and listening to people engage in conversations with colleagues while they try to achieve performance and produce results, it never ceases to amaze me how far too often basic human kindness is forgotten. We forge ahead irrespective of what is happening...
Back to Basics when Leading
In our current environment of VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - leaders are inundated with "stuff". They receive hundreds of emails each day, most probably the same number of phone calls, don't forget the back to back meetings and of course...
Leading Light and Fast
Traditional and experienced ways of leading are not necessarily going to serve organizations into the future. Our Courageous Leaders facilitators increasingly challenge top leadership teams during workshops and programs to examine their current status quo and identify...
Creating Courageous Conversations
High performance is what we all strive for. Within teams, it takes trust and a feeling of having each other’s back to truly perform and reach full potential . Having the conversations that need to be had to engender this trust – openly and honestly – are crucial. This...
Courageous Leadership and Innovation
Innovation is critical for organisations to continue thriving and driving bottom line performance. The world is changing at an ever increasing rate and with globalisation this simply amps up the rate. Why do we need courageous leadership for innovation? Courageous...
Courageous Leadership and Growth
Why is courageous leadership critical to enable growth? Growth is sustainably created when leaders demonstrate courageous leadership by making the right decisions at the right time and with the right intent. This is at the very heart of their business mastery and it...
Courageous Leadership
The past few months have seen us knuckle down to produce our quarterly (ish) e-newsletter. In the Courageous Leaders office we had been talking a lot about the idea of Courageous Leadership, so decided this would be the theme for the quarter. As we drilled down to...
When courage in leadership comes to call
Our experiences have revealed a comfortable pattern existing in many leadership teams - especially if the membership has remained fairly stable over a 3 to 5 year period. They have got socially comfortable with each other and like to be "nice" to each other -...
Why is courage important in leadership?
Why is courage important in leadership? This is a question posed by many leaders and organisations as they determine the importance of including courage as a vital attribute for their leaders of the future. Our immediate response is that it is vital for organisations...
Courageous Leaders need a strong platform to dive from
At the very heart of demonstrating courage when leading is the personal strength and tenacity to be real with each other, as a leadership team and with the group of emerging leaders reporting to you. It means you have to be prepared to be challenged and to ignite...
There is an I in team
Over the years I've had many people tell me there is no "I" in team. Thanks to Facebook and further exploration I happily refute this claim - there IS an "I" in team. In a recent workshop, we brought even further clarity to this concept: To enable a team to operate in...
The Abundance Mindset: Growing the Pie
Over the past week I have been working with a leadership team to define the kind of culture that enables high performance and we explored how to do this courageously with an abundance mentality. We pondered the idea that it becomes particularly challenging when the...
Courageous Leaders ARE vulnerable
While facilitating a recent conference with senior leaders we explored the impact of "being" vulnerable both internally within the business and externally with customers/clients. We agreed the impact is: - deeper trust - more real conversations - greater efficiency...
Courageous Leadership requires transparency
As more of our clients embrace the behaviours of a courageous leader they uncover a truth: courageous leadership requires transparency; that there is an increasing demand to bring greater transparency to their teams. This is not something that has been culturally...
Courageous Leadership demands both trust and conflict
Patrick Lencioni writes about the dysfunctions of a team - at the base of his pyramid is the absence of trust and the next foundation layer is the fear of conflict. We completely concur with his claims and refer regularly to his work in our programs. Trust gives...
Taking time to have fun
Our holiday experience at the start of this year provoked insight into the importance of pure and simple "fun". Upon reflection I believe too many of us "grown ups" have lost this ability - we are far too busy in our daily lives concentrating on what we need to "do"....