The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
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The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
3w ago
In this episode, I help you eliminate the activities that hinder your ability to be more strategic.
Here’s the question:
“At my level, everyone talks about the importance of strategy. Which I love and I’m very comfortable with. I get it and I get that focus. What I’m not comfortable with is finding the time to do it apart from our annual offsite. What do you see other senior leaders do to make sure they don’t get lost in the weeds?”
The downshift of the weeds, the day-to-day transactional side of the business, will always have a stronger pull over the uplift of strategic-focused activities.&nb ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
1M ago
In this episode, I overview one of the most powerful ways I know to take your one-one-ones to the next level.
Here’s the question:
“I now have 12 direct reports and am totally committed to their development. I’m relatively new in the role and inherited the team from a GM who didn’t have a lot of focus on development. Our organisation has a comprehensive system to identify development needs and then offers a variety of options to meet them. However, I’d love to get going straight away. Any tips or ideas to gain traction?”
If you’re just discussing work in progress in your regular one-on-on ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
1M ago
In this episode, we touch on how much of your feelings you should share with your team when you’re feeling low.
Here’s the question:
“How do you lead with authenticity while feeling low yourself as a leader? How do you share how you feel with your team and show vulnerability without bringing everyone down with you or making them feel unsure about your resilience or leadership?”
Do you just cover up your feelings and soldier on, play “rah-rah”, or collapse into a screaming heap? Cause that’s what you feel like doing.
Like most things in life, it’s a balance. Being “real” doesn’t mean you necess ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
5M ago
In this episode, I outline one of the most magical ways to end one year and start a new one with your family and friends.
Here’s the question:
“Mitch, you talk a lot about the leader as an energiser at work and the importance of gratitude how do we bring these same ideas into our family life?”
The awesome jar is designed to help your family and/or friends relive the year that was and be reminded of the best memories that were created along the way.
Our lives get busy so capturing memories from throughout the year and reviewing them as a whole family provides a sense of tradition, gratitude and ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
5M ago
The biggest and most important role we can take on in our lives as leaders, if we choose to, is that of a parent.
I recently had the great pleasure of chatting with Dina Cooper, a Transformational Parent Coach and author of the book Smart Parenting: How to Develop Your Child’s Mindset, Resilience and Courage for the Future of Work.
Dina shares such beautiful words of wisdom, wrapped in her tender and heartfelt commitment to helping you to be the best “parent as leader” you can be.
We discuss topics like:
The importance of reflecting on how you are showing up for your kids and some of t ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
5M ago
In this episode, I give three tips to help your people navigate through challenging times. Times of massive uncertainty and complexity.
Here’s the question:
“We have just been through a major restructure and there have been some redundancies. No more are anticipated, yet the ‘survivors’ are feeling very uncertain about their job security. I can’t, hand on heart tell them that their roles are secure. I don’t want to BS then. What can I say that’s real and can help?”
As a leader, what you say counts!
Your people need to hear these three simple but powerful messages and they need to hear th ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
6M ago
In this episode, we go into the psychology of leadership, exploring the unconscious and how our obsessive behaviours can sometimes be a cover-up for our deeper insecurities.
Here’s the question:
“I’m loving my new role, but the sales function is not running how I believe it should be operating. Sales are still good, and the new Sales Director is a good operator, but I find myself spending much more time in the function, more than I should. I don’t want our standards to slip but there is so much work to be done elsewhere as a relatively new General Manager. Any suggestions?”
Many of the ways we ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
7M ago
In this episode, I give you three counterintuitive ideas for managing an insecure boss who’s behaving badly.
Here’s the question:
“My boss who’s been with the company for many years has been constantly putting me down and finding things to criticize me and rarely praise my achievements. He often speaks down to me and points out issues that he’s not raised before in meetings in front of other colleagues. When I have a conflict or some sort with others, he never takes my side to support me.
I end up doing most of the work and he takes a lot of credits of mine and upper management is not very awa ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
8M ago
You may have already heard me refer to the Goldilocks Principle (See Goldilocks and the Different Authority Levels). In this article, I apply the principle to your natural leadership style and your ability to access the many different parts of yourself. It’s those parts that make up your beautiful whole. Understanding and harnessing those parts make for flexible leaders who can play to both ends of the behavioural spectrum…
…And of course, work towards getting it ‘just right’.
Not too hot and not too cold.
Not too hard and not too soft.
Storytime
Once upon a time, there was a man named ..read more
The Human Enterprise | Leadership Coaching and Development
9M ago
Here’s a crucial question posed by one of our followers:
“I’m wondering about your thoughts on being more flexible with meetings with our new flexible work arrangements post-COVID. Most of my team are very well-skilled and independent. Meetings worked when we were in the same office, yet they seem more difficult to arrange these days. Plus we are all hitting the number, even with a few vacancies, so our time is precious. Are meetings all they are cut out to be?”
In this episode, I discuss three reasons why regular meetings remain indispensable for success, even in flexible work environments. T ..read more