I’ve written before about my thoughts on salary transparency. I always encourage my coaching clients to make sure they’ve done salary benchmarking research and to always include salary expectations on job adverts. The reasons for including salary from the off are both obvious and varied, but include: This post focusses
I previously wrote and article about the difference between being assertive and being aggressive, and the fact many people confuse being aggressive with being assertive. Being rude with asserting. I liked these eight reminders about the difference between communicating aggressively versus assertively. Andy.
“Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.” – Peter Drucker A while ago, I read an article on leadership habits by Tamnay Vora, who said: “Managers are linchpins who have
“It’s not my responsibility” I spotted a graphic on LinkedIn recently which talked about personal responsibility (it was similar to the first image below). It’s premise was around healthy boundary setting. The problem was that the creator of the graphic had posted it into a LinkedIn group around leadership, and
Everyone needs a team of people, a personal board who can provide support throughout their life. These are the people you can call when faced with day-to-day decisions, crossroads and challenges, or just to lend an ear. You might ask for their insight or ideas, their point of view of
A few of you responded to my article a few weeks ago in which I wrote about my dwindling motivation towards exercise since completing my half marathon at the end of last year. Since it seems a few of us are in the same boat, I thought I would share
An interesting piece of research from ignite80 that suggests that the highest-performing teams have found subtle ways of leveraging social connections during the pandemic to fuel their success. The findings offer important clues on ways any organisation can foster greater connectedness — even within a remote or hybrid work setting
“If serving is below you, then leadership is beyond you” – Bishop Dale Bronner I’m forever reiterating to leaders I work with about the benefits of servant leadership. As an article in Harvard business Review pointed out, ‘By focusing too much on control and end goals, and not enough on their
Which questions were the most Googled in 2022? What trends were we interested in? Which TV series, actors and musicians were top of our search bar criteria? Here’s a summary of Google’s 2022 in search. The video is rousing too, a great two minute watch. Andy
When teams are formed, they go through predictable stages of development. Recognising, understanding and responding to this development and performance ‘curve’ has the ability to transform good teams into great ones. A commonly used framework for these stages was developed in the mid 1960’s by Bruce W. Tuckman. His descriptions
