How to Prioritise Urgent Tasks From Your Boss

I was presenting to a group of leaders last week and a participant in the audience said, his boss always wants everything urgently or as a priority.  I wondered if it was him thinking it was urgent or if it really was urgent.   Sometimes I think we assume it’s urgent because the boss asks but if…

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4 Ways to Show You’re a Leader 

As a mum to two beautiful girls, I am always trying to lead by example, some days I get it right and other days maybe not so right but one thing I do know is that they are always watching me and always observing how I am acting.  So I am always trying to be…

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2 Easy Ways to Boost Engagement

I am always saying to leaders that without your team, you can’t be successful. I know for a fact that I would not of achieved all that I have without a successful team behind me. As the leader of the company, it is critically important that I am boosting engagement in my team because we…

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4 Tasks Every Leader Should Delegate

I ran a workshop on “How to Empower Employees through Effective Delegation” and l wrote a best-selling book “Empowering Employees Through Effective Delegation” and for many leaders just trying to figure out what to delegate is sometimes the hardest. They often say but I’m the only one that knows how to do this… so I…

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Leaders, are you Coaching or Telling?

I know many managers that find it to tell rather than coach.  However, telling doesn’t really allow the person to grow and learn and think for themselves. However, when we coach, we inspire, teach, grow and empower our people. Often managers tell me they are coaching but when I put them through one of my…

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Do you want to get more out of your staff? Find out how.

Every single day I am developing, coaching or training leaders around important leadership tools, models and frameworks they should be using depending on their leadership challenge or opportunity and I wanted to share a model that I am pretty passionate about with you. Are you using a coaching framework to improve your team’s performance? If…

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Five ways to boost team morale

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Your team are your greatest asset. You know it, I know it – but do they know it? Richard Branson says “A company’s employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product” . Their good work and loyalty can fail to get the appreciation and recognition it deserves and instead your team hear…

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How to overcome your team’s excuses

overcome teams excuses

As a leader, you are bound to experience team members making excuses about why they can’t, won’t or didn’t do something they were asked or expected to do. While excuses every so often can be understandable – expected even, when they are regularly given you need to act. Here are four ways you can overcome…

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Five ways to grow your team beyond you

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As a leader, it can be easy to think your most important role is to increase your organisation’s performance and profit, but the true goal of a leader should be to help your team become more confident and accomplished. So how do you help them to live up to their full potential? Here are five…

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