Articles: Insights & Actions
Take care, but take risks too
We can’t live a life without risk and so learning to take calculated risks (risk management) when we’re young is essential. I want my own kids to be r…
Tracking – it’s useful in the bush
Tracking – it's useful in the bush and for the same reasons, in the office too! It means you and the team know where 'things are at', at any time.
Building solution focused teams
When we're Solution Focused, we're creating chemistry in the brain that is better for our mental and physical wellbeing, we're also having more fun!
Unleashing creative genius at work
How is creativity thought of in your team?
Give people autonomy
Don't think for other people, support them to do their own best thinking instead.
Establish parameters, your team’s playing field
Think about parameters as the edges of a soccer pitch. Within the parameters is the creative space where players put in the hard work. In an organisat…
Teams are stronger with common goals
Let's talk about Common Goals. Does your team have them and are they clear?
The CEO Disease
The CEO Disease is a colourful term for a leadership feedback vacuum. This is where good solid feedback doesn't make it through to the leader, thereby…
Noisy Communication
When we're listening to someone, there's often a raft of messaging to make sense of. So which are the parts we really need to act on?
Tell vs. Ask
If you're operating in an environment where people need to think to succeed, then ensure people aren't being told how to think or what to think.
Lack-lustre team performance: Ten solutions
What are the signals of lacklustre team performance, and what are the solutions? These are the questions I look to get answered when starting to coach…
“Do as I say” Leadership
Command-style Leadership is risky!
Crayfish & Conflict
How a scuba diving emergency illustrates key principles of conflict resolution.
Leaders and Followers
On an army assault course in the UK – why I was there is a long story – I heard a recruit proclaim "In this life there are leaders and there are follo…
Going in guns blazing
When looking to resolve a conflict, be sure to enter the conversation in the right emotional state. 'Instant pre-play' is a performance strategy used …
“I’m in my dream job, I hate it!”
How communication is critical to leadership and culture.
Ambiguity is a risk
Ambiguity places one of the biggest stresses on a human being, and there's an amazing amount of it around!
The fight for your map
We can think very differently at times, so how do we ensure this channels into creativity and away from conflict?
Communication Leadership: Brain-based Foundations & Resources
So what are the foundations of the Communication Leadership training? Here are the areas of science and research that inform the training and some rec…
How to spot Communication Leadership
Put simply Communication Leadership is communication that leads to some form of change. But that's a little vanilla, so to put it differently, Communi…
Communication is instrumental
It is actually a no brainer … communication is instrumental in everything we do.