Live Your Values - Excel as Leader!
In the dynamic landscape of leadership, the connection with personal values stands as a compass, guiding us, as leaders, through the complexities of decision-making and management. This intrinsic compass is not just a moral framework; it’s the essence of authentic leadership that resonates with our teams and stakeholders alike. And it’s not just that – In the research for their book ‘The Leadership Challenge’ Kouzes & Posner, highly respected leadership researchers, found that leaders who are clear on their own values delivered as much as five times greater returns for their organisations than those who are unclear on their values or not operating to any particular compass.
Leaders! Get on the Balcony to see the Big Picture
As leaders, we often find ourselves immersed in the day-to-day hustle and bustle of our teams and organisations. We’re on the dance floor, moving to the rhythm of deadlines, meetings, and urgent tasks. But there’s a crucial skill that distinguishes exceptional leaders: the ability to step back, gain perspective, and observe the bigger picture. This skill is beautifully captured by the metaphor of “getting on the balcony.”
Collaborative Overload?
According to Harvard Business Review, managers and employees are spending 50% more time in collaborative activities (virtual and face to face meetings, phone calls, e-mail) compared with 20 years ago.
While collaboration and information sharing are vital in today’s interconnected world, it is important to ask if all of this collaboration is adding value.
Collaborative activities account for up to 80% of some employees’ time – is the remaining 20% sufficient time to allocate to critical work they are personally responsible for delivering?
First, Make Sure You’re a Team, Then Set Yourselves Up for Success
‘We’re all in this together’ is a common slogan around Covid19 and I’ve seen it previously used referring to the economy, the environment, climate change and so on. It’s put me thinking about the workplace and what ‘we’re all in this together’ means in the work context.
For many ‘we’re all in this together’ is seen as synonymous with a call to teamwork. Indeed we hear so much about teamwork and collaboration and the benefits accruing to organisations that get this right. A quick check in the Harvard Business Review site yields 2,448 results – undoubtedly there are real benefits – but it’s far from that simple.
The Pitfalls of ‘Whether or Not’ Decisions
I was coaching a client some time back who was trying to decide if he would move on from his current role or stay put. We did an exercise where he explored the downsides of staying, the upsides of moving on and the upsides of staying – it seemed very clear that the energy and upsides around moving on were way stronger than those for staying in current role.
From Executive Coaching to Committed Partnerships
We’ve been thinking anew about how we bring value to our executive coaching clients.
Client circumstances vary all the way from business closure/redundancies to pivoting their business to those who are experiencing significant growth and opportunity in these times.
What is true for all is that change, whether planned or not, is engulfing them right now.
We’ve been asking clients how we help them most and we’ve been reading current research and upskilling ourselves.
And it seems to us that the coaching landscape is changing rapidly.
What’s Your Leadership Purpose? 6 Questions to Get You Thinking!
Are you chasing an elusive sense of purpose in your work and leadership? Well this article could be just the thing to catalyse your journey to clarity by providing you with 6 questions to get you thinking constructively about what purpose may mean for you.
The Power of Core Values for Leadership
We’re loving reading the latest edition of The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes & Posner. They’ve been researching for decades now on how to make extraordinary things happen in organisations.
There’s so much talk all the time around organisational values and they’re important of course – provided that they’re real and not of the vanilla variety that we see so often accompanying organisational mission statements.
What’s really bowled us over is Kouzes & Posner’s research showing the vital importance of our personal values as leaders – in fact they found that leaders who are clear on their own values delivered as much as five times greater returns for their organisations than those who are unclear on their values or not operating to any particular compass.
International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day 2018, we at Mojo For Leaders have combined our years of experience, training and research and our work with some amazing, inspirational female leaders to put together what we feel are the most valuable lessons in leadership for women. Here goes.
Leadership and Beyond
Do you suffer form Hedgehog Syndrome as a leader? Do you know why you are a leader? Are you aware of your internal condition?
Kerry O’Keeffe shares some reflections on her learnings from listening to the great Manfred Kets de Fries speak.
Mojo For Leaders Top Recommended Reads for Leadership
We've been asked to share our top 5 recommended reads for leadership but I am afraid we could only cut down our list as far as 6! Here are our 6 - we would love to hear what yours are....It all begins with an idea.