Paying Attention to Attention: Part 3

Over the last couple of weeks we have been discussing how to watch your attention each day to develop dynamic knowledge about yourself and your drivers or motivators. You can see the posts here and here.
If you are persistent in your personal journey to better leadership and people management, sooner or later you will have [...]

Paying Attention to Attention: Part 2

Last week we looked at how dynamic knowledge of our own behaviours – drivers and motivators – can give us the edge in terms of our development as great leaders and managers. I included a simple tool in that post – watching where our attention wanders during the day and also how it wanders. Where [...]

Paying Attention to Attention

The reality is that as your management career progresses, your management style will change. The styles of supervisors are different to those adopted by middle managers who have primarily people concerns, and these are different from high-end middle managers and senior managers who have strong results emphases. These are different again to the skill requirements [...]

The Importance of Leadership

I want to quote to you today from a book that I have been reading. It is a wonderful couple of paragraphs, that considered will challenge and stretch us as we strive to be the best we can as a leader and manager.
Being in charge will stretch us
Leadership is a journey that can be profoundly [...]

Management Skills: Communicate for Performance

Communication is such a large part of life, and yet we rarely train ourselves to achieve the best out of communication.
We attend courses to learn how to do strategy, project manage and apply six sigma approaches. We read HBR and BRW, and a range of popular fiction. We might learn woodworking, French or Ancient Asian [...]