At work you are getting a new CEO. They have been brought in to improve things. It feels like a big wave of change coming towards you. Whatever the prompt: to keep up with customer expectations, technology advances, social change, revenue, profitability, global growth, all or any of these, your new CEO wants and has been hired to deliver significant…
I am just back from a wonderful three weeks of backpacking around the country of Mexico, including one week with my daughter. Threaded amongst all my fantastic experiences, my biggest problem was that my footwear was not up to the job. We are talking about my sandals. I had made an assumption, that my lovely sandals (featured above, on the…
The first day back at work after the Christmas and New Year break can be one of mixed emotions. For some of us, it can feel “same old, same old”, we don’t want to get out of bed. For others, we may be starting something new. We can anticipate the adrenalin rush, the feeling of sunshine and “this is amazing!”,…
I am getting ready to deliver customer service training for a digital infrastructure company. One of the activities we ask participants to do is to write down THREE words to describe their very best, ideal self: What might yours be? When I did the exercise, my answers were: Brave Compassionate Connected We ask the learners to take the exercise extremely…
Sometimes on our leadership development journeys, we can feel small or scared or stuck. For example, we may yearn for a next step with our career, but tell ourselves that we can’t get that promotion. Or we tell ourselves that no one would ever give us the necessary buy-in to lead the team, or something else. So, unilaterally and without…
“Lucky! Lucky!” they called out. Apparently, you will be lucky if you buy a caged bird and set it free when visiting temples in Luang Prabang in Laos. That’s what the ladies say as you start the long climb up Phousi hill. At the top we saw so many empty cages hanging in the trees, we could only presume they…