Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world – Joel A. Barker As I work with people in helping them achieve their goals, what I help them most with is clarity of vision. The clarity could be in discovering or understanding their[…]
“Innovation is a deliberate change towards unlocking new value.” We live in unprecedented times of technology advancements happening at a blistering pace, creating endless possibilities for individuals and organisations. The global political and economic environment is also shifting constantly, often moving in unpredictable directions. It seems clear that innovation will be a defining trait of[…]
Why train your mid-level managers? They are the ones holding the team together “People leave managers, not companies.”This allows us to infer that by developing managers to lead people well would improve employee engagement metrics in organisations. A Gallup study of 7,272 American working adults unearthed that one in two people had left their job[…]
Leadership vision is an essential means to focus attention on what matters most; what you want to accomplish in your life and what kind of a leader you wish to be Leadership is the ability to inspire or influence others towards the leader’s, team’s or organisation’s vision. Leadership can be developed at every level, mainly[…]
Leadership is about behaviour and that’s unique to each individual. Which is why one workshop cannot change things suddenly Have you ever thought about this? Even though leadership has existed since the time human beings were born, why is there so much talk about it in recent times? Why are leadership and the study of[…]
No one decision-making style is inherently superior to the other. The key in getting a buy-in from anyone lies in understanding who the real decision maker is among all the stakeholders In Parts One and Two in this series of articles, we explored the best way to obtain buy-in from anyone. The key lies in understanding who the real[…]
Tailoring your arguments to business leader’s decision-making style will give you the best chance of obtaining a desirable outcome In Part One in this series of articles, we found that the best way to obtain buy-in from anyone is to understand who the real decision maker is among all the involved stakeholders. Tailoring your arguments to that[…]
There are times when your arguments are solid, your logic unconquerable and your data bulletproof. So why do you have a problem to rally the people around you to your vision and towards favourable action? In our personal lives and at work, often without realizing it we need to enact the role of a salesperson[…]
Though no one asks this question as directly as stated; it is asked in different forms like do you coach people from a certain industry ? level ? etc. Most of my clients are very senior executives, running big departments or companies. They have a lot more subject matter expertise than I do in their[…]
At a recent talk on Leadership, one of the participants had this question, a very valid one: On why he needed to even begin to explore deeper within and look at changing himself. He was fine the way he was. Of course Leadership is not for everyone, it is for those that have the desire[…]