Category: News and Views

What’s Your Next Level?

There are two types of people in the world – those who want to be comfortable and maintain the status quo, and those who have a thirst to keep growing and learning. Which one are you?

Is Your Team Culture Sabotaging Results?

Is your team one where tough conversations consistently happen, or where they’re often avoided? And what’s the impact on your results? Your team’s ability to challenge and hold each other accountable or to ask for help when needed will absolutely determine your level of success. Watch this video for more …

How do You Support Your Peoples’ Career Aspirations

Are you the kind of leader who’s all about the work, or do you also invest time to grow your people in the direction of their goals? And are you aware that doing so can help to enhance their engagement and make work more enjoyable? This video, the 6th in a series of six, explores …

What’s the Culture Like in Your Team?

Are you someone who takes a lot of personal pride in your work? Do you like to attach significant purpose and meaning to the tasks you undertake … and do you intentionally create that for your people? This video, the fifth in a series of six, explores how Fun Factor #5 – Meaningful Work – …

What’s the Culture Like in Your Team?

Do your people feel valued within your work environment? Do you go out of your way to empower and support them, and are you the kind of leader who motivates them to bring their best? This video, the fourth in a series of six, explores how Fun Factor #4 – Mutual Support & Respect – …

How Much Autonomy Do Your Give Your People?

Are you growing and stretching your people by giving them greater responsibility and autonomy? This video, the third in a series of six, explores how Fun Factor #3 – Elbow Room – can be used to build greater capability in staff through the considered delegation of projects and tasks within careful guidelines.

How Are You Growing Your People?

How Are You Growing Your People?

Are you providing the right kind of learning opportunities for your people? And how much growth do they need anyway? This video, the second in a series of six, explores how Fun Factor #2 – The Opportunity for Learning & Growth – can drive employee engagement and enhance work outcomes.

What Makes Work Fun?

What Makes Work Fun?

What does it take to really engage employees and team members, and have them inspired to bring their best to work? In fact, what makes work fun? This video, the first in a series of six episodes, outlines a framework I learned several years ago from a former mentor, Jennifer Elliott, about how to powerfully …

Want to Build a High Performing Team?

Want to Build a High Performing Team?

Today’s video builds on my most recent video post, “The Needs that Drive Us” to further unpack how to understand and leverage the different needs of your people to help them perform at their best.  And it’s not just for your team members – these concepts apply equally to your own needs and those of …

The Needs that Drive Us

Do you sometimes get frustrated by people’s behaviour? Wish you understood why they acted the way they do? Watch this video for a simple framework to help you understand and work with yourself and others more effectively.