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Episode #259 Pro Presenters Cut the Fluff

In this Age of Distraction, we’ve got seconds to win our audience’s attention—or lose it. When we’re unclear...

Zones Of Staff Performance

Recruiting and developing the perfect team is an illusion, a Fool’s Gold hot pursuit for leaders. Even if ...

Episode #258: Buyers Don't Buy So How Do We Get Them To

The distance between wanting to buy and actually buying is often vast. Business leaders all have goals, but ...

The Listening Leader

Leaders are often poor listeners in the modern age. To listen to our team members requires the allocation o...

The Listening Leader

science.

The Awesome Power Of The Leader

We have met them. Thrusters, mad with power and hungry to control others. Organisation insider politician...

To SER With Love

In the movie “To Sir, With Love”, Sidney Poitier was brilliant in the role of a black teacher in a tough Lo...

Episode #257: The Real Cost of Stupid People at Work

Stupid people in organizations aren’t always easy to spot. They can appear confident, energetic, and articul...

Common Leader Achilles’ Heels

We know the name Achilles because of Brad Pitt and Hollywood or we may have read the Iliad. He was a famou...

Are You Authentically Aggressive Or Assertive As A Leader

In today’s business world, leaders need to be “authentic” leaders. We have all come across this somewhere, ...

Three Tools To Engage Your Team

Engaging your team as a leader is a relatively new idea. When I first started work in the early 70s, none ...

How To Be A Role Model As A Leader

Smirks emerge quite quickly when you mention “role model” and “leaders” in the same breath. Most peoples’ ...

The New Leader Mindset Shift Needed

We are recognised for our capabilities and potential and promoted into our first leadership role. We have ...

Four Superheroes Of Coaching For Leaders

We have seen Hollywood pumping out comic heroes as movie franchises to get the money flowing into the studi...

Working Through Others Who Are Not Working

The chain of command is a well established military leadership given. I have three stripes, you have none,...

House Clean The Team Every Year

Japan has a wonderful year end tradition where the entire house is given a massive clean up. Dust is dispatc...

Is Japanese Leader Charisma The Same As Western Charisma

I met the owner of a successful business recently. He had bought the company twenty years ago and then piv...

Leadership Silk Purses From Sow’s Ears

The ad on social media said, “we are looking for sales A players”. I know the guy who put out the ad and he...

Namby Pamby Kids Today and Tough Love Leaders

Years ago I inverted the pyramid and promoted the best salespeople to become the branch leaders. The existi...

Micro Leadership Techniques

Time is the enemy of good leadership. It takes time to develop a team of individuals. A common metaphor is...