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A simple framework for leadership reflection
We’re half way through 2021! It’s time to take stock, adjust course as required. Here is a simple framework for leadership reflection.
Read MorePerspective: an essential leadership principle
How big is your perspective? How deep, far and wide do you think? Expanding perspective is a fundamental leadership principle we need to practice. Like doing drills for your favourite sport.
Read MoreA leadership framework for personal and organisational resilience
Resilience is a hot topic because we’ve all needed it. It’s not something you just pick up; it can be cultivated. It’s an essential leadership framework.
Read MoreLeadership principles for surviving complexity
Our brains are complex things, but not great at handling complexity. We need a few key leadership principles to help us make sense of the fast paced hot mess that is our current leadership context.
Read MoreA leadership principle I keep re-learning
Do you keep being given leadership lessons to learn? Do the same ones keep coming back? That’s definitely the case for me. This is obviously a leadership principle I need to keep learning.
Read MoreLeadership development for underperformers
While we love to focus on high performers, there are those who also need leadership development: the underperformers. What looks like bad behaviour could be a talent waiting to be developed.
Read MoreLeadership skills to regain trust
Cultivating trust is a key leadership skill. But what happens when we lose trust? Specifically, when we make a mistake, a big one, and people lose trust in us? Here are three skills to deploy.
Read MoreBoundless Leadership: Cultivate celebrations that matter
The office Christmas party: loathe it or love it? It is a universal principle that end of year celebrations are done to foster good company culture.
This is mostly true. Our workplaces are modern tribes, and a tribe needs a sense of purpose and moments in time to know that we are progressing towards that purpose. End of year parties provide an opportunity to pause, reflect, and celebrate.
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Read MoreDiscover hidden allies for Boundless Leadership to catapult results
I met with Rob Evans of AllBids last week. He attended the Edge of Leadership Un-Conference last year and had a brilliant time. More than that, he was able to connect with Peter Gordon, the CEO of Hands Across Canberra, a local community Foundation that raises funds for various community organisations in Canberra. Inspired by the stories of business-community collaborations, Rob met with Peter and together they worked out a project where people could sell their unwanted goods and donate the money to Hands Across Canberra. It’s called “Canberra’s Biggest Garage Sale”.
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Read MoreTwo key senior leadership responsibilities
What are our key responsibilities as leaders? As Boundless Leaders, if we are to go to the edge of what is possible, what do we really need to keep in mind?
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Read MoreBoundless Leadership: Choices versus obligations
“What percentage of your life is currently your own?”
This is one of the questions I ask clients when we first start working together. The majority answer less than 100%. The sense of obligation is rife.
It got me thinking about what holds us back. Obligations are one of the big anchors we drag along behind us. They drain energy and vitality. They are one of the biggest risks to Boundless Leadership.
Boundless Leadership is stepping boldly in to the unknown where everything is possible. Limitations are dissolved, and our energy is abundant with enthusiasm, and industry.
Obligation clogs up the petrol of our passion.
Read MoreCentered leadership in a time of hate
Grief stained my heart. Every day this week stories of hatred, murder, violence leapt from the media. White supremacy violence in Charlottesville, a President who all but excused it, Pauline Hanson and her hate-filled vitriol against Muslims, and yet another bus attack against civilians, this time in Spain.
What are we doing to each other?
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Read MoreThis is the leadership practice that builds engagement
Wikipedia defines employee engagement as, “a property of the relationship between an organisation and its employees. An "engaged employee" is defined as one who is fully absorbed by and enthusiastic about their work and so takes positive action to further the organisation's reputation and interests.
There are over 1795 results on Amazon for book titles on the topic. They talk about ‘pillars’, ‘fundamentals’, ‘frameworks’, ‘strategies’ , ‘rules’ and ‘guides’ for getting people to like their work and therefore get better results for the company.
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Read MoreIs speaking up a leadership responsibility?
Toni Hoffman was a senior nurse at Bundaberg Base hospital. In 2006 she was awarded the Order of Australia medal and the Local Hero Award.
She went through hell. She was the whistleblower on the Jayant Patel case, a surgeon who was convicted of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm. (These charges were later quashed and a retrial ordered. In 2015 he was finally barred from practising medicine in Australia. Her actions likely saved many lives and caused improvement in the hospital’s systems.) She was shunned by her peers, unsupported by the administration. Her health suffered.
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Read MoreA leadership approach to deep connections
I just got back from an extraordinary few days with the first Leader’s Edge Mastermind group. This intrepid group of eight met for the first time in Alice Springs before heading out on the spectacular Larapinta Trail, one of the world’s classic overland tracks. Our intention was to EXPERIENCE this remarkable landscape, REFLECT at the foot of inspiring ridge lines, and CONNECT deeply with each other. Oh, and we had some laughs! This is the start of a 12-month leadership development and peer support odyssey, so it’s important to set the tone for fun!
After much drawn out avoidance and procrastination, the group named themselves the “Fearless Bustards”. A ‘bustard’ is a type of terrestrial bird we spotted at one of our campsites, called ‘Fearless Campsite’. Hence, the name.
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Read MoreHow to influence beyond your leadership level
The best strategic leadership thinking needs a sounding board
Gordon leaned back, both arms straight, pushing against the edge of the table, like a king commanding his minions. The others squirmed in awkward silence.
This is the death knell for effective strategic leadership thinking: decisions railroaded through intimidation and shallow discussion.
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Read MoreAfter International Women’s Day - Let’s Talk About Men
When I go to work, I leave my balls in a jar. I feel neutered all day. When I go home, I take them out again, and fall on the couch to watch TV.
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Read MoreBigger Leadership Opportunities
I’m so looking forward to the Edge of Leadership Un-Conference 28 March and the opportunity to bring together people who want to make a bigger and better difference in their world, and the world of others. There’s no bones about it though, if you want to make a difference, you need to strengthen your network.
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