Are you trying to get your team more effective and focused? Are you wanting to get the “mojo back” with your team at work despite all the changes? It is likely that the last few months have been a bit of a blur for you with the amount of change that, as individuals and companies, […]
Hug a small business today Everyone should make friends with an entrepreneur. Building a business is both terrifying and exhilarating. No experience can prepare you & the ride is like a roller-coaster with high highs and low lows. The resilience it takes to keep on going is unlike anything I have experienced before. The resilience […]
According to Wikipedia, “collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.” We are focused on this critical skill so that we can share […]
Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risks and rewards during the decision-making process. When under stress people focus more on the possible positive outcomes. Strangely. when under stress, the natural tendency is to pay greater attention to positive information, while discounting negative information, according to research published in Current Directions in Psychological Science. This means when […]
Many people are facing career decisions in these difficult times; either due to retrenchment or business challenges. Or you may be wondering if you should make a career change due to feeling stuck in your current role or situation. Before deciding to look for a career change or to pivot to a new industry, company, […]
Leadership is almost entirely made up of communication. Communication means what you say, what you don’t say, what you write, text, type, what your face says unconsciously, what your body shouts by accident! Communication is also the only way to resolve the issues that crop up and pull teams & relationships apart. A fractured relationship […]
Perfectionism and constantly striving to anticipate what might happen and relentlessly preparing to take advantage of tomorrow is the enemy of being fully present in today. This trap is robbing each one of us from fully engaging in relationships and the joys of where we are right now. I personally find myself having to pull […]
Previous participant advocacy builds motivation This month we kicked off multiple Inspired Leadership journeys, but one experience stands out. Sybrin ran the Inspired Leadership Journeys in 2019/2020 (seamlessly moving to virtual over lock-down) and launched new cohorts in September. What stood out was the strength of the internal advocacy for the journeys. Alumni from the […]