What do you use Personality Test for?
It’s quite common for organisations to use ‘Personality tests’ or ‘Psychometric profiles’ as part of the recruitment process. But, why…?
Leadership styles for improvement
Daniel Goleman et al. (2002) found during his research that there were 6 distinctive Leadership Styles. He noted that these styles, when used, will have different effects on the emotions of the target followers. He always classed them as styles, not types and stated any leader can choose to use...
Stakeholders, Shmakeholders
When managing any type of improvement project one of our greatest assets (and liabilities) are our stakeholders.
Been there, done that.
When training, I often come across sceptics, who repeat the mantra, ‘We have tried that before and failed’, ‘No one will use this, the company are not really interested’. So how do you manage these sceptics? And manage their resistant behaviour in training?
What gets measured gets done. But what if you’re measuring the wrong things?
Probably the #1 issue I see when we visit an operation is around what is measured. Even in environments where they have a balanced scorecard, the custom in practice leans heavily in one direction.
Seek first to understand…
Quite often I see Management Consultants and Leadership bloggers talk about employee engagement and how to make things better.
Forced Rankings are Terrible!
The measures are often arbitrary. If you can quantifiably measure something, that takes away a lot (but not all) of the bias, but in most cases, we try to measure behaviours like Cooperation, Teamwork, Collaboration & Communication which are all qualitative, or Opinion-based. Then there is a whole set of...
Making Mistakes
Sir Robinson says “If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original”.
7 Key Points in Leading a Project
7 Things you need to know in leading a project Roll with the punches The first issue in managing a successful project is that you need to be willing to roll with the punches, often in project management or leadership we have a cognitive bias, that little voice in the...
Beware, Narcissistic Leaders!
It’s well documented that Donald Trump is a classic narcissist (among otherthings). But let’s looks at some of the things he said in the interview: “It’s something that I find very interesting.” “I actually have studied it very hard. I know the different players.” “But I think Boris would do...
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