Delegate To Develop
By delegating more effectively, what growth opportunities can you create for others? When delegating, some people assume they are no longer responsible for the outcome. However, effective delegation is based on creating a growth opportunity for someone else and requires you to be mutual accountable for the resulting outcome. Ask yourself: Based on the growth […]
Competition Of One
What if you viewed yourself as your main competition rather than comparing yourself to others as a marker of success? Quite often we compare our success to the success of others as a measure of our self-worth and achievement. By comparing ourselves to others we will inevitably feel as if we don’t measure up as […]
Learning Pathway
When looking for areas to grow and develop consider looking at what causes you to stumble or hesitate when it comes to creating change and create a learning pathway designed to make your more adaptable and responsive to change. Unresourceful beliefs we have about our capability – whether we can or can’t do something or […]
Change Markers
Change is an inevitable part of life and business. It is constant in some way shape or form. And more and more one of the most valuable capabilities an individual can have is their ability to adapt to constant change. Everyone adapts and responds to change differently – in different ways, at a different pace […]
Growth is Constant and Never Ending
Each of us have certain strengths in capability and areas where we know we know we don’t perform as well. Having a growth mindset means that you have a realistic view of what you are and are not capable of doing and a willingness to want to improve and enhance your capabilities. You view limitations […]
Shift Your Strengths
Knowing what you are good at and developing those capabilities is key to your success. Nobody is meant to be great at everything. In fact, the most successful people know exactly where their strengths lie and where they don’t. They then surround themselves with people that bridge the gap in capability for them. A muscle […]
Strength in Numbers
No one is an island and most things worth accomplishing require the assistance, input or support of others in some way. There are people around you that are willing to help you and support you where they can and you will find that if you enlist the help and support of others you may move […]
Annual Reviews: A Relic of the Past
The time has come. The annual performance review is a thing of the past. Relevant for a time when long-term employment was a valued goal. At best they help reflect on past performance, at worst, they only serve as a tick the box exercise, an activity that must be completed at years end. Most performance […]
Why taking a one-size-fits-all approach to development does not work
When developing team members, most businesses fall prey to the topic of the day in the hope it will go some way to solving their current business challenge. Topics like ‘fierce conversations’, ‘becoming agile’, or ‘being a disrupter’ have been positioned as important skills over the last few years – similar to goji berries being […]
