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Are you using the 50% rule?
Almost certainly, there is a huge amount of talent under our noses. Why then, is there a perception that talent is so rare? Largely it is because many leaders have become too lazy. Too lazy to look for it themselves, to discover it, and to develop it. I advise the 50%...
read moreAre you The Indispensable Person?
Today more than ever we need to take a step back and look at what we can and what we can’t do. This reminds me of a piece of wisdom, an old mentor shared with me a long time ago. Sometimes when we’re feeling important. Sometimes when our egos in bloom. Sometimes...
read moreHow to stop worrying and start delivering…
When I am working on a one-to-one high-performance coaching project with a senior leader, the first question I ask them is, ‘when you sit down with your CEO or Board of Directors at the end of the year, how are they going to measure your success?’. A good client of...
read moreThe Mayonnaise Jar and the Coffee…
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day is not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar... and the coffee... A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he...
read moreDealing with the challenges of life…
Accept that some days we’re the pigeon, and some days we’re the statue. Always keep our words soft and sweet, just in case we have to eat them. If we can’t be kind, we need to at least have the decency to be vague. If we lend someone €20 and never see that person...
read moreEven great leaders and their teams have problems keeping their word!
They say they’re going to take on a task, but for reasons — good or bad — they don’t complete the task. An example of a good reason for not completing a task might be a change in the company’s marketplace strategy or an unexpected customer issue that must be dealt...
read moreDo you want to gain huge confidence?
I was working with a leadership team a while back. At the end of one of the group sessions. a member of the team came to me, she was upset. She said that she felt like an ‘imposter’ in the room and didn’t deserve to be there. She said she had no real talents and...
read moreHigh-Performance Development Programme – starting 20th of September 2023
My next programme starts on the 20th of September '23 (it is 5 days spread over 4 months). The normal cost per participant is €1,500, I have managed to get limited skillnet funding of 30%, so the cost to you is €1,050. “Of all the courses, training and development...
read moreWhat do you get when you get me?
In school, we are taught the merit system, that’s the system that claims the world rewards us according to how much ability we have and how hard we work. But alas, your school, my school, and all schools are wrong about that. The world rewards us not according to how...
read moreWhy stress management is a waste of time!
One of the main reasons that we as leaders don’t keep our word and do what we say we’ll do, is our difficulty in coping with the ever-demanding pressures and demands put on us. In my work with clients from a wide range of business sectors, the mantra today seems to...
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