We have all experienced how disruptive, even toxic, certain individuals can be – digging their heels in obstructively over an important issue, refusing to engage or become part of a team, actively...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
Everyone has their favoured definitions of leadership teams (strategic, vision, direction, resource allocation, seniority etc.) and management teams (tactical, implementation, process driven, getting...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
Who do you spend most of your time thinking about? How much of your inner dialogue is taken up with reviewing what you said / what they said / what you and they will say / what they might think of...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
We are all unique individuals – the way you lead most effectively will differ from the way others lead, The quality of your Leadership is determined by the quality ofyour Awareness of and your...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
Anyone with children or grandchildren under 12 years will know of “Frozen” and has probably joked about being driven insane by that song! What is often not understood is that the film may be one...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
The first casualty of a conflict situation is the very thing that lies at the heart of good relationships – listening. At these times it is not only that we don’t want to hear the other party – we...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
Heard of Emotional Intelligence (EI)? Done the course? Ever seen a great example of all six EI Leadership styles illustrated in five minutes? In the course of my work I have looked high and low...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
We are all told that individual development supports organisational performance, and it seems intuitively right. But sometimes it is difficult to see just how it is so, and especially when you are...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
When we are confronted with appalling massacres and atrocities such as those in the Middle East and Africa most recently, what are we meant to do? It can be very difficult to understand how to relate...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
When we look at quantifying how well values are lived within an organisation, we immediately run into the issue of trying to understand one dimension - i.e. an individual’s subjective experience of...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
Judgement creates conflict. We know this from our own experience - recognise these scenarios?: You start off having a positive exploratory conversation and end up in an argument defending a position...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
When I say I trust, or don’t trust, someone, what am I actually saying? What is it that I am trusting or not trusting? Trust is one of the fundamental aspects of the relationship between leaders and...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
It sounds simple enough: but what is your purpose? Surprisingly, many of us seem to have no idea. We might say our purpose is to earn enough money to pay the bills. Or maybe much more. So what’s...
Posted by Nigel Linacre
Right here, right now. Without anything out there having to change at all. Just because your feelings are yours. This may sound fantastic. Many of us believe we can only feel good when everything is...
Posted by Nigel Linacre
"We are all unique manifestations of humanity, wherever we think humanity may come from ... The purpose of our time here is to real-ise - to make real - that uniqueness, and to give it to the world...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
As a teenager I was hospitalized for gut pains. They said it might be my appendix, ulcers, my colon, IBS. The truth was I was worrying in a big way about what felt like everything. If the Olympics...
Posted by Nigel Linacre
Download this Powerpoint for another way to view leadership in 3-Dimensions: Space, Time and Being...
Posted by Nigel Linacre
Remember, we are human beings, not human doings! One of the most difficult things to remember when you are the leader of a company or team is that what you want to say matters far less than what ...
Posted by Jefferson Cann
The information age calls for leadership to be distributed within organisations. An abundance of information requires local leadership and decision-making. We want to make it easier for people to...
Posted by Nigel Linacre