I was offered the opportunity to undertake a free diagnostic in order to understand my left brain versus right brain dominance. Hence, my optimal learning style. Feeling I had better ways to use my time, I politely turned down the offer and spent the time thinking (with both my...
Are we really being productive? Where ever we go people seem really busy. Sometimes laser beam focused and sometimes on the verge of being overwhelmed. There is no argument that there is a lot of change and activity about in New Zealand organisations. The more...
The 70:20:10 concept to learning at work is well established in our larger organisations in New Zealand. You may remember the idea that 70% of our learning is on the job and the rest is from learning from others and courses. It emerged out of the Center for Creative Leadership...
Looking around some of our larger organisations in New Zealand changing culture and growing capability are definitely on the strategic agenda of most organisations. Conventional wisdom dictates that a company should conduct some sort of measurement of the impact of people programmes if it is investing large amounts of resources into these...
In an article in the HBR, Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy from The Energy Project talked about their experience of having worked with thousands of leaders and managers in large organisations. They have seen that rising demands in the workplace encourage leaders to put in longer hours and...
“Experience is the best teacher.” How many times have we heard that, or said it ourselves?Unfortunately, having an experience does not guarantee learning from it. And that is a critical issue for all aspiring leaders. Responding to environmental volatility and uncertainty requires a degree of personal...
What do good leaders do when they don’t know what to do? I read a great Korn/Ferry briefing recently that looked at the importance of learning agile leaders. They are the ones who know what to do when they don’t know what to do!At Mantle,...
With change and restructuring still firmly on the agenda of many New Zealand organisation I was of a mind to look up a number of my archived change management methodologies I have acquired and in some cases designed over the years. It was all good...
Heard of the Pygmalion Effect? This is the origin of the Servant Leadership concept. It is based on what Harvard Researcher Robert K. Rosenthal discovered “that just by changing a single word that you say inside your own head, you can transform the results that you...
“The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie Inscribed in the forecourt of the Temple of Delphi in B.C., BC in ancient Greece, were over a 100 Delphic maxim. The...