5 Steps to Smart Your employees are not the same. Your clients are not the same. Your friends are not the same. Your peers are not the same. It’s naive and wrong to consider they are and to treat them that way. The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition posits that individuals move through five stages [...]
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How to make delegation work
Some managers believe that the most appropriate way to operate is to do everything for themselves. All it achieves is an increase in stress. And, it ignores the talent and potential in their organisation. If you want to make delegation work for you, these tips may help: Avoid postponing important projects. These projects will not [...]
Exploding the Leadership Myth for Managers
Today in Townsville I was the closing keynote speaker for the Local Government Managers Australia, Queensland. My topic was on “Exploding the Leadership Myth”. Here are some key points for all managers and leaders of all types of organisations: Articulate the value of what has to be achieved. What’s the purpose of your objectives, goals [...]
Psychology of Leadership, Management & People Performance 2-Day Workshop
Three of the biggest challenges in business today: How to be an exemplary leader How to be a masterful manager How to influence people to perform better Getting these three critical issues right makes a profound difference and improvement to your organisation and the results achieved. Only the mediocre are always at their best. And, [...]
Ric Willmot in Kuala Lumpur June 10-15
Ric Willmot will be in Kuala Lumpur delivering management training programs during June. Strategic Leadership Thinking (11-12 June) From the HR Office to the Boardroom: What HR Managers must do to support C-Level Executives (13-14 June) If you would like information on these public workshop programs, contact us and we can e-mail you the details.
Friday Redux No.14: Looking for leadership in all the wrong places
I had been captain of many of the sporting teams at school and college. I had captained club teams after graduating and been elected to leadership positions in community groups as well. So, later in life when I became a CEO of a HR & Recruitment firm, I thought I knew a great deal about being a leader, [...]
Five Executive Decision Making Myths
With over 200 executives from 14 countries who have been through my Coaching & Mentoring Program, I have learned a great deal about executive decision making by observing the behaviours and actions of CEOs and senior staff in large international companies and SMEs. There are three components to decisions: social, emotional and political. Politics is [...]
Who should you have on your team?
When you decide that you need another person on your team; is it because you need another body? Is it because you need another process worker? Another cog in the wheel or as Pink Floyd sang, “Another brick in the wall”? If that is what you want, then identify people who aren’t really motivated, have [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.100: 3 Keys from Steve Jobs
This is the 100th edition of the Weekly Wisdom. Thank you to the members of my Mentoring & Coaching Program who cajoled, coerced and convinced me to do this. Given it is the 100th edition, I’m recommending everyone who doesn’t yet receive the Weekly Wisdom each Monday in their inbox that you add it to [...]
Weekly Wisdom No.95: No more excuses
I’d like to achieve great things with my business, but the economy is tough. Yes, my organisation should be generating greater results but it’s a price-sensitive market. I could be fantastic at that but my spouse won’t let me. We could be a much higher quality firm but we don’t have any sales or marketing [...]
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