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Four steps to becoming a leader with influence
The ability to influence a team is fast becoming a crucial leadership skill. Influence once came with your leadership position, now in many workplaces, your ability to influence determines your success. Not all leaders influence, yet all influencers lead. Your ability to solicit ideas, change minds, shape opinions, sway decisions and leverage the skillset of…
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How to ask better questions to get better answers
There is power in asking questions. The right questions can help you get to the bottom of the issue, uncover motives, stop conflict, build trust, break down walls and even influence others to see your point of view. But how do you ask the right questions? Particularly in scenarios where people may be reluctant to…
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Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders |#5 Identify Areas for Improvement
Improvement In every business there is always the opportunity to improve somewhere, I bet if you looked at your own business, team or department there would be at least two areas you could work on over the next three, six and twelve months. It could be increase performance amongst the team, leadership and coaching capability or…
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Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders |#4 Getting Clear on Your Vision & Goals
So often in business we talk about the importance of having a vision and clear goals. While the benefits are obvious, when business gets busy, it can be easy to loose sight of the bigger picture and focus on your ever-growing daily to-do list. Not having clear goals and planning ahead can have serious consequences…
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Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders |#3 Become a Coaching Leader
Coaching Leader When we think of a leader, we often think about the position and the authority that comes with it. We see a leader as the decision maker; the person who delegates tasks and sets the vision, who closes deals and moves others to act. The one who leads the team and ensures the…
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Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders | #2 Increase Staff Engagement
Staff Engagement This is the second article in the series Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders. As a leader you have control over the direction of your team, business or division but how fast and effectively you get there, is controlled by your individual team members. When engagement and work satisfaction is high, your…
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Five Ways a Coach Can Help Leaders | #1 Developing Leadership Style
Leadership Style As a leader you have enormous impact in your organisation. It doesn’t matter whether you manage two or 2,000 staff, your actions, decisions and leadership style can directly impact the productivity, profitability and performance of your team and business. While being a leader can be an incredibly rewarding it can also be overwhelming,…
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Why you need to manage your tasks not your time
Time is your most valuable commodity. There will only ever be 24 hours in your day and once it is spent it can never be returned. But as important as time is, if you want to be truly productive it is not your time that you should be managing so closely, it is your tasks.…
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Five tips to help you prioritise your work
When you’re faced with an ever growing to-do list, learning to prioritise your tasks is vital, not only for your productivity but for your own sanity and wellbeing. But with every task appearing urgent, how do you prioritise so that you make the most out of every day?
To help you I thought I would share how I prioritise my to-do list to ensure my time is spent as productively and profitably as possible.
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Four ways to create more accountability in your team
Lately a lot of my work has been with leaders and businesses around accountability. We often blame our staff for not doing the tasks we have set them or the tasks they have set themselves, but as leaders we also need to reflect on our own behaviour. Accountability is a two way street. While creating…
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