The Thoughtful Leader Podcast with Ben Brearley: Recent Episodes
Ben Brearley
Short, sharp leadership advice for leaders and managers who care about the performance and job satisfaction of their teams.
At some point in your leadership career, you may find yourself leading someone who has significantly more experience than you. They may be older than you, have spent decades in your industry or possess technical knowledge that you don't have.
This can feel intimidating, especially when you believe that being the leader means you should have all the answers. However, leadership isn't necessarily about being the most experienced person in the room.
In this episode, I share practical ideas for leading experienced people, benefiting from their expertise and maintaining your own leadership authority.
In this episode, you'll learn: * Why leading more experienced people is becoming increasingly common. * How asking for people's opinions can build trust and motivation. * Why experienced people may react badly when their expertise is ignored. * How experienced team members can help develop others. * Why you shouldn't defer to experienced employees on every decision. * How to clarify your decision-making process. * Why leadership skills can be valuable even when you have less technical experience. * How your access to senior leaders gives you organisational context that your team may not have.
Resources * Coaching: Work with Ben.
What do you think? Have you led someone who had significantly more experience than you? What helped you build trust and lead them effectively?
Leave a comment on the show notes page or join the discussion on Spotify.
Leading people from different cultural backgrounds can be incredibly rewarding, but it also brings unique challenges.
People's expectations about leadership, communication, teamwork and decision making are often influenced by the cultures they've grown up in.
In this episode, I explore Geert Hofstede's well-known cultural dimensions framework and discuss how leaders can use it as a guide to better understand their teams, while avoiding the trap of stereotyping individuals.
In this episode, you'll learn: * Why culture can influence how people behave at work * The six cultural dimensions identified by Geert Hofstede * How power distance can affect communication with leaders * Why individualistic and collectivist cultures approach teamwork differently * How different cultures respond to uncertainty, achievement and long-term thinking * Why cultural frameworks should be used as a guide, not a label
Resources mentioned * Hofstede's Culture Factor Country Comparison Tool: https://www.theculturefactor.com/country-comparison-tool * Leadership Coaching: Work with Ben.
What do you think? Have you noticed the cultural differences in your team impacting the way you work together?
Leadership roles come with formal authority. You can make decisions, approve work, manage performance and influence the direction of your team.
But formal authority has a hidden downside. The more authority you have, the less likely people may be to challenge your ideas, raise concerns or give you honest feedback. Even approachable leaders can unknowingly create barriers that stop valuable conversations from happening.
In this episode, I explore some of the unintended consequences of formal authority and share practical ways to encourage greater participation and more open discussion.
In this episode, you'll learn: * Why formal authority can discourage people from speaking up * How leaders can become trapped in an echo chamber * Why your feedback carries more weight than you might realise * How to encourage more honest discussion and better ideas * Why external perspectives, peers and coaches can provide valuable feedback * Practical ways to reduce the barriers created by your leadership position
Related resources * Podcast: #178: So You Have an Open Door Policy… But Is It Working? * Leadership coaching: Work with Ben.
What do you think? Have you ever noticed your leadership position changing how people interact with you?
Professional sport is one of leadership's favourite sources of inspiration. Books about championship teams, legendary coaches and elite athletes are everywhere. But how much of that advice actually applies to your workplace?
In this episode, I explore why professional sporting teams and work teams are fundamentally different. While there are useful lessons about culture and teamwork, many leadership approaches taken from elite sport overlook the realities of leading people in organisations.
Understanding these differences can help you become a more effective and realistic leader.
In this episode, you'll learn: * Why professional athletes operate in a very different environment from most employees * How motivation differs between elite sport and the workplace * Why measuring performance at work is much more difficult * Why empathy matters more than high-performance sporting analogies suggest * How leadership needs to adapt when your team has different priorities, abilities and motivations * What useful lessons we can still borrow from elite sport, and which ones are best left on the field.
Resources mentioned * Work with Ben: Leadership Coaching.
What do you think? Do you think professional sporting teams provide useful leadership lessons for the workplace, or are the differences too great?
Many leaders approach people problems as if there must be a perfect technical solution.
In this episode, Ben explains why leadership is rarely that simple and why a scientist's mindset of testing, learning and adapting is often more effective than trying to engineer the perfect answer.
Key Takeaways * People problems don't have perfect equations or technical solutions. * Leadership requires experimentation, observation and learning. * Creating better conditions for people is more useful than trying to fix them.
Quote "We don't need to fix people, we need to create conditions where they're likely to do better work for us."
Resources * Work with Ben: Leadership coaching.
The phrase "don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" is common leadership advice.
In this episode, Ben explains why this slogan can create barriers between leaders and their teams, reduce coaching opportunities and discourage people from raising important issues.
Key Takeaways * People may stop raising issues if they don't already have a solution. * Leaders miss opportunities to coach and develop capability. * Team members often lack the broader context needed to create the best solution.
Quote "Working with your people to develop the solutions is actually a way better way to improve capability and confidence in your team."
Resources * Coaching approach episode – Why You Should Be Asking More, and Telling Less * Ben's personal website – https://benbrearley.com/
Many leaders quickly dismiss leadership ideas by saying they won't work in their team or industry.
In this episode, Ben explores why this reaction happens, what may be sitting underneath it, and how leaders can become more intentional about evaluating new approaches.
Key Takeaways * Dismissing ideas quickly may be a way of avoiding discomfort. * Deeply held beliefs can prevent leaders from adopting useful approaches. * Leadership models often need adaptation rather than outright rejection.
Quote "Maybe the real answer is I'm not comfortable or confident in trying to do that in my team."
Resources * Ben's personal website – https://benbrearley.com/
Difficult people are a reality of leadership. Whether it's a resistant team member, a challenging stakeholder or someone with a strong personality, there is rarely a simple solution.
In this episode, Ben shares five essential ingredients leaders need to navigate these situations more effectively.
Key Takeaways * Patience is required because difficult behaviours often develop over time. * Commitment helps you stay consistent when progress feels like it isn't happening. * Empathy allows you to understand concerns, stay composed and respond more effectively.
Quote "Empathy just means making an effort to think from that person's perspective."
Resources * Coaching with Ben – Leadership Coaching
Do you feel like you're walking on eggshells with members of your team?
In this episode, Ben explores why thoughtful leaders can become overly cautious in their leadership: avoiding difficult conversations, hesitating to hold people accountable and worrying about upsetting team members.
Ben explains how this behaviour can slowly damage team culture, create inconsistency and place additional pressure on high-performing employees.
This episode also looks at why leaders become vulnerable to this pattern, including fear of losing key employees, difficult workplace processes and organisational pressure.
Key Takeaways * Walking on eggshells can reduce leadership effectiveness and authenticity. * Avoiding accountability often creates frustration for high-performing team members. * Fear of losing staff can make leaders hesitant to address issues. * Difficult performance management processes can encourage avoidance. * Leaders need confidence and clarity to address problems constructively.
Memorable Quote "By trying not to upset people you may be setting a precedent in your team that people can get away without being held accountable."
Resources Mentioned * Work with Ben. * Article: Performance Management: Do It Well With the 5 "C"s.
Is there a "perfect" balance of personalities and values in a team?
In this episode, Ben explores the idea of diversity through the lens of personality and personal values. Inspired by a question raised during an authentic leadership workshop in Perth, he discusses why teams benefit from differing perspectives, but also why too much misalignment can create friction and dysfunction.
Ben also explains the role organisational values can play in shaping culture and helping leaders create stronger alignment within their teams.
Key Takeaways * Diverse perspectives can improve problem solving and team discussions. * There is no perfect formula for balancing values within a team. * Organisational values can help attract people who align with your culture. * Leaders should avoid trying to engineer the "perfect" team dynamic. * Values discussions can improve authenticity and alignment at work.
Memorable Quote "There's no engineering solution that's going to give you the perfect specification on the values balance in a team."
Resources Mentioned * Download the free Useful Values Journal. * Why No One Cares About Your Company Values (and How to Fix It) * Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explores an important distinction between empathy and accountability. Inspired by a question raised during a training workshop, he explains why empathy should always be present in leadership, but why that doesn't mean avoiding difficult conversations or lowering standards.
This episode looks at how leaders can understand the challenges their people are facing while still making appropriate decisions about performance, behaviour and consequences.
Key Takeaways * Empathy is about understanding another person's perspective, not necessarily agreeing with their behaviour. * Leaders should separate empathy from accountability. * The level of accountability required often depends on what is at stake. * Compassionate leadership does not mean avoiding consequences. * Understanding context helps leaders respond more thoughtfully and fairly.
Memorable Quote "You can have empathy 100% of the time, but just because you have empathy does not mean you can't take action."
Resources Mentioned * Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben shares his experience of taking an emotional intelligence assessment and the surprising results that came back.
The assessment highlighted strengths as well as areas where his emotional intelligence was lower than expected. Rather than viewing this as negative feedback, Ben reflects on how insights like this can improve self‑awareness and leadership development.
The episode explores how assessments and feedback can help leaders better understand how they show up at work and how their behaviour affects others. By approaching the results with curiosity rather than defensiveness, leaders can identify opportunities to grow and improve their effectiveness.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explores how confidence is often linked to the conditions surrounding our work rather than being a fixed personal trait.
When people lose confidence, it can feel as though something internal has changed. However, Ben suggests that confidence is frequently influenced by external factors such as preparation, clarity, experience and support.
One practical approach is to reflect on situations where you previously felt confident and performed well. By identifying the conditions that were present in those situations, you can begin to recreate them and give yourself a better foundation for confidence again.
This perspective helps leaders focus on shaping the environment and conditions that support confidence rather than trying to force confidence through willpower alone.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben introduces the idea of secret leadership. This is when leaders try to implement leadership techniques with their team without explaining what they are doing or why.
This often happens after leaders attend training, read a leadership book, or learn a new approach they want to try. Instead of openly discussing it with their team, they quietly introduce changes. Ben suggests this can happen because leaders feel a sense of embarrassment or vulnerability about admitting they are trying something new or changing their leadership approach.
However, implementing leadership ideas "by stealth" can backfire. Team members may notice the changes anyway and react sceptically or roll their eyes because they don't understand the purpose behind them.
Ben argues that a better approach is to be open about what you're trying to do. By explaining what you've noticed, what you've learned and what you're hoping to improve, you involve your team in the process rather than quietly applying techniques without explanation
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Brené Brown – work on vulnerability and trust
- Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explores the common leadership advice that if you have a problem with someone, you should speak to that person directly. While this idea is widely recommended, many leaders still hesitate to have these conversations because they feel uncomfortable or worry about how the other person might react.
Ben discusses why avoiding the conversation can allow issues to linger and sometimes make the situation worse. Instead of hoping the problem will disappear, leaders often benefit from addressing the issue with the person involved so it can be clarified and resolved.
At the same time, the episode highlights the importance of approaching these conversations thoughtfully. The goal is not confrontation for its own sake, but resolving misunderstandings and improving the working relationship.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explains why occasional reflection on past experiences can help leaders understand themselves better and improve their leadership. While coaching is typically future‑focused, reflecting on personal history can reveal how past experiences shaped values, reactions, and behaviour.
Using a childhood story about his time in the playground, Ben illustrates how his value of self‑reliance may have developed. While this value has many strengths, it also has potential downsides, such as reluctance to ask for help or collaborate.
The key lesson is that understanding your personal values - and the strengths and drawbacks they bring - helps leaders become more self‑aware and more forgiving of themselves, which supports stronger leadership.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Useful Thinking Journal.
- Article: Why Self Acceptance is a Foundation for Good Leadership.
- Understand and use your values online course.
In this episode, Ben talks about career direction and why many leaders struggle to define a clear long‑term vision.
Rather than trying to picture a very specific future role, he suggests creating a set of guiding principles that help you evaluate opportunities as they arise.
Ben explains that principles can be built around three main factors: the type of work you want to do, the lifestyle you want to live, and the level of seniority or responsibility you want to pursue.
These principles act as a framework for decision‑making, helping leaders assess whether new opportunities align with their desired direction.
Having these principles can prevent leaders from saying yes to every opportunity and help them avoid drifting through their careers without a sense of direction.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Click here to learn about working with Ben 1:1.
In this episode, Ben explores a common frustration for leaders: teams or individuals who seem stuck and unable to make progress. He explains that "spinning your wheels" often comes down to a combination of factors rather than a single cause.
Key issues include a lack of time and capacity, unclear direction or priorities, fear of accountability, and missing skills or knowledge needed to complete the work. When leaders fail to clearly state priorities, teams often default to business‑as‑usual tasks instead of tackling new initiatives.
Ben also highlights how some team members wait for explicit permission to step up and take responsibility.
By clearly defining priorities, granting permission, and providing the necessary support and skills, leaders can help teams move from stalled discussions to real progress.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Work with Ben - Get in touch here.
In this episode, Ben discusses why induction (or onboarding) is more important than many leaders realise. While it can seem like a dry administrative task, it creates the first impression a new employee has of the team or organisation, and that impression can influence how connected and motivated they feel.
Ben shares a personal story about a poor onboarding experience where nobody seemed prepared for his arrival, leaving a lasting negative impression.
From there, he outlines several ways leaders can improve induction. These include creating a structured and repeatable process, helping new starters build connections with colleagues, introducing familiarity with the workplace and its people, and providing the right balance of early work so the new person feels useful without being overwhelmed.
He also emphasises the importance of managers personally investing time in the induction process to help new employees feel welcomed and valued.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- SCARF model of motivation.
- Work with Ben 1:1.
In this episode, Ben argues that while there is rarely a true "silver bullet" in leadership, respect comes close when dealing with difficult team members.
Respect involves fairness, listening to the other person's perspective, and involving them in decision-making about solutions.
He explains that respect must go both ways, and that leaders must also ensure they are respected.
When respect is absent, issues often escalate into formal performance management. Ben also encourages leaders to focus on what they can control in emotionally charged situations.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Article: Taking a Coaching Approach with Less Telling and More Asking
- Work with Ben 1 on 1: Leadership coaching.
In this episode, Ben unpacks the concept of authentic leadership and simplifies it into practical action. Rather than trying to "bring your whole self to work," he suggests selectively bringing the most useful parts of yourself in a professional context.
He introduces the leadership shield exercise, where leaders define four "being" qualities they want to embody at work.
Ben also emphasises understanding personal values, developing self-awareness through feedback, and using 360 feedback processes to identify blind spots.
Authentic leadership, he argues, builds trust and reduces stress because you are not pretending to be someone else.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Understand your values online course
- Work with Ben 1 on 1 – leadership coaching.
Ben discusses how thoughtful leaders can survive and succeed in difficult workplace environments.
Drawing on his own experience, he explains why some strong leaders may opt out of senior roles due to toxic cultures, and why that's a loss for organisations.
Key strategies include knowing what you are getting from your current role, clarifying your personal values, connecting to a sense of purpose, and building a trusted support network.
Ben also shares the example of rugby referee Hollie Davidson and reflects on how difficult environments can filter out capable people.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Understand your values online course
- Work with Ben: Leadership coaching.
In this episode, Ben explores Herzberg's Motivator Hygiene Theory and explains how leaders can use it to better understand team motivation. This is an older theory, but recently it has been re-examined with further research studies which tend to confirm it is still quite a valid way to think about motivation.
Hygiene factors such as salary, a safe workplace, policies and procedures create a baseline for motivation, but do not generate high engagement on their own. Motivators such as interesting work, recognition, appreciation, development opportunities and purpose drive higher levels of intrinsic motivation and discretionary effort.
Ben explains the importance of ensuring hygiene factors are in place, while also focusing on individual motivators that managers can influence directly. He also discusses refreshed research that continues to support the two-factor structure in modern workplaces.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Herzberg's Motivator Hygiene (Two-Factor) Theory
- Some refreshed research on the two-factor model: Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3.
- Work with Ben 1 on 1.
Ben shares four ways to convince yourself to do hard things when leadership demands it.
He explains how considering consequences, reflecting on identity, treating challenges as learning experiences, and asking what a good leader would do can increase motivation.
The episode connects these techniques to motivation theory, including towards and away-from motivation, and encourages leaders to act even when discomfort is present.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Towards and away-from motivation
- Leadership coaching: work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben addresses the tension between ambition and burnout for thoughtful leaders.
He explains why ambition matters and why sustainable habits are essential for long-term success.
Drawing on his own routines, he covers healthy habits such as meditation, exercise, sleep, and nutrition, as well as the concept of restorative niches from Brian Little's work.
Ben also challenges rigid ideas of work-life balance, suggesting flexibility and long-term thinking instead.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Restorative niches (Brian Little)
- Work with Ben: Coaching.
Ben explores the idea that resistance is often a sign you should lean in rather than avoid.
He explains how the brain's threat response drives avoidance and how social threats can feel as real as physical ones.
Using a personal story about working with a difficult colleague, Ben shows how pushing through discomfort can build capability, even if the outcome isn't perfect.
He also discusses research on the anterior mid-cingulate cortex and how doing hard things strengthens your ability to do more hard things in the future.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- SCARF model (David Rock)
- Anterior mid-cingulate cortex research
- Work with Ben: Coaching.
In this episode, Ben reflects on four of the most important things he did for his career and what thoughtful leaders can learn from them.
He explains how mindfulness helped him manage frustration and build emotional regulation over time, why joining Toastmasters reduced his fear of public speaking, and how listening to informal mentors shaped key career decisions.
Ben also shares how studying for an MBA while working full time built discipline, healthy habits, and ultimately created the space to start Thoughtful Leader.
The episode encourages leaders to work on themselves so they are better equipped to handle whatever challenges arise.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Headspace app
- Waking Up app – Sam Harris
- Toastmasters International
- Work with Ben: Coaching.
In this episode, Ben breaks down the concept of ghostworking (which is really modern-day presenteeism) and explains why it's usually a commitment issue rather than laziness.
He draws on motivation theory, including hygiene factors and intrinsic motivation, and shares practical ways to rebuild commitment through connection, purpose, responsibility, and fairness.
The focus of this episode is on addressing root causes rather than defaulting to control or punishment.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching – work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explores whether personal values can be changed and what to do when they seem to hold you back.
He explains that while values are relatively stable, we can adapt our behaviour regardless of what our values are.
Through examples of conflicting values like ease versus growth, he shows how leaders can consciously choose which values to prioritise in different situations.
This episode offers reflection questions to help identify your own values and use them more intentionally.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Lead With Confidence by Understanding and Using Your Values course
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching – work with Ben.
This episode tackles a common leadership dilemma: how long to wait before enforcing consequences for poor performance or behaviour.
Ben walks through a practical decision-making process, starting with curiosity and feedback, then moving to support, clarity, and finally consequences if behaviour doesn't change.
He discusses the importance of stakeholder alignment, realistic follow-through, and why avoiding consequences can undermine trust and motivation across the team.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching – work with Ben.
In this episode, Ben explores how deeply held beliefs shape behaviour and can quietly limit leadership confidence.
Using personal stories about fitness, public speaking, and career choices, he illustrates how untested assumptions can become self-imposed barriers.
Ben explains the difference between fixed and growth mindsets, the role of self-talk, and how beliefs often become baked into identity.
He encourages leaders to notice when they say "I can't do that" and get curious about whether those beliefs are actually true.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Lead With Confidence by Understanding and Using Your Values course.
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching.
In this short and sweet episode, Ben farewells 2025, says Thank You and talks a little bit about how principles (rather than goals) can help you set intentions about how you want 2026 to go.
Thanks for listening in 2025, and Ben will be back around mid-January 2026.
Supporting your people doesn't have to be complicated.
In this episode, Ben shares four key reminders leaders often forget.
He explains why these fundamentals matter more than dramatic leadership techniques and how thoughtful leaders can use them to build trust and stability.
Ben draws from coaching conversations and real workplace examples to help you support your team with confidence.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- How to Lead Effectively as a People Pleaser
- Make the Most of Motivation Models in Your Team
- Too Busy at Work? Try These Five Things
- Gallup StrengthsFinder assessment
- PRINT Assessment
- 16Personalities.com
- Episode 130: One-on-one Meetings
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1:1.
In this episode, Ben introduces a straightforward model to help leaders give challenging feedback in a way that hopefully helps the receiver get on board with it.
He explains each of the parts of the model and shares practical examples to show how the model works in real conversations.
Ben also talks about common mistakes thoughtful leaders make, like softening the message too much or delaying feedback out of discomfort.
The episode links closely to The Useful Feedback Journal, which helps leaders process feedback they receive and builds their confidence in asking for feedback.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Useful Feedback Journal - get your copy today.
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1:1.
Many new leaders struggle when moving from individual contributor to leadership.
In this episode, Ben breaks down why the transition feels so difficult, especially for thoughtful, high-performing people.
He covers key mindset shifts including letting go of control, redefining success, prioritising relationships over tasks, and stepping into visibility even when it feels uncomfortable.
Ben also shares stories from coaching clients who found leadership hard because they still identified as "doers", not leaders.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1:1.
In this episode, Ben explores whether it's possible to stay authentic while also adapting your leadership style.
Drawing on coaching conversations and personality models like DISC and OCEAN, he explains why adaptability doesn't mean "changing who you are".
Instead, adjusting your behaviour to meet the needs of different situations is both necessary and can still be genuine.
Ben shares real examples from his facilitation and project management work, showing how leaders can honour their natural traits while flexing their approach when required.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching
- Kerri Price - facilitation training.
In this episode, Ben talks about the importance of balance in leadership: knowing when to step in and when to step back.
He discusses common traps, like micromanaging or being overly hands-off, and helps leaders identify their "sweet spot" where they can provide enough guidance without stifling independence.
Ben offers practical reflection questions and strategies to help you stay balanced, effective, and confident as a thoughtful leader.
Resources:
- Work with Ben: Thoughtful Leader Coaching.
In this episode, Ben introduces The Useful Feedback Journal, a digital tool designed to help leaders process, accept, or reject feedback thoughtfully.
Drawing from his own painful experience receiving harsh feedback after a workshop, Ben explains how the journal guides you through four stages – Retreat, Reflect, Extract, and Act – to turn feedback into growth rather than frustration.
He also shares success stories from pilot users and outlines how journaling can help you track patterns and improve your response to feedback over time.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Useful Feedback Journal
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching.
In this episode, Ben explores a common leadership dilemma: how open should you really be with your team?
While transparency builds trust, oversharing can create confusion or discomfort.
Ben offers practical advice for finding the right balance between honesty and professionalism.
He discusses when to share challenges and when to protect your team from unnecessary stress, helping thoughtful leaders navigate openness with self-awareness and confidence.
Resources:
- Brené Brown's website: https://brenebrown.com/
- Work with Ben 1:1 – Coaching for thoughtful leaders.
In this episode, Ben explains how knowing your personal values helps you lead with confidence.
He shares how values act as a foundation, keeping you steady when challenges arise.
Ben reflects on his own experiences and discusses how understanding your values can help you make decisions, handle pressure, and stop second-guessing yourself.
He also introduces his small-group Values Discovery Sessions, designed to help leaders uncover their core values and use them to lead more authentically. Spaces are limited to 8 people, so book your spot now using this link:
Click here to book your place in an upcoming Values Discovery Session.
For the 300th episode, Ben tackles one of the most common challenges thoughtful leaders face: dealing with strong personalities at work.
These colleagues may be direct, dominant, or results-focused - all traits that can feel intimidating or frustrating.
Ben shares five practical tips, from avoiding direct confrontation to preparing well for interactions, so thoughtful leaders can hold their ground without trying to overcompensate or act like someone else.
He reminds us that strong personalities aren't bad, just different, and that with the right strategies, you can work alongside them effectively while staying true to your own leadership style.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Article: Five Tips for Quiet Leaders.
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1 on 1.
AI tools like ChatGPT are everywhere, but what does that mean for thoughtful leaders?
In this episode, Ben shares personal examples of using AI for marketing, podcasting, and even gardening - but he also issues a word of caution.
Over-reliance on AI risks “deskilling” teams by removing valuable opportunities for learning and mentoring.
Drawing on examples from law and medicine, he shows how bypassing junior staff development can have long-term consequences.
Leaders can embrace AI, but must balance efficiency with the need to grow capable, confident teams.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Book: The Skill Code by Matt Beane
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1 on 1.
Adapting your leadership style is essential but if you’re not careful, it can feel exhausting.
In this episode, Ben explains how to shift your style to suit different situations - whether it’s being more direct in a crisis or more outgoing when networking, while keeping it sustainable.
He draws on personality psychology research, including insights from Brian Little’s work on “personal projects,” to help leaders recognise when it’s worth stretching themselves and when to restore their energy.
The goal: flexible, people-focused leadership that won’t compromise your wellbeing.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Brian Little – Blog and information on Personal Projects.
- Brian Little – TED Talk - "who are you really?"
- Lead With Confidence by Understanding and Using Your Values – online course
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching - work with Ben 1 on 1.
In this episode, Ben explores why stability is such a powerful leadership trait. Drawing from his coaching and training experiences, he highlights how inconsistency erodes trust and creates uncertainty in teams.
Ben shares his own routines, such as exercise, mindfulness, morning reading, and small rituals that help him maintain calm, dependable leadership, even under stress.
He emphasises that your team needs to rely on you regardless of circumstances, and building stability through consistent habits is one of the best ways to lead with confidence.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Thoughtful Leader Coaching: Work with Ben 1 on 1.
- The Useful Thinking Journal.
In this episode, we look at a common challenge for thoughtful leaders – taking too much responsibility for other people’s problems.
Reflection and self-awareness are powerful strengths.
But when reflection turns into overthinking and self-criticism, leaders can start to “own” problems that aren’t really theirs to solve.
I explore why thoughtful leaders are prone to this, how it increases stress and disempowers both you and your team, and what you can do to set healthy boundaries.
You’ll also hear why accountability must stay with the person who owns the issue, not with you as the leader.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Useful Thinking Journal – a helpful tool for reflection without slipping into unhelpful self-blame.
- Episode 259 – Why Leaders Should Have a Reflective Practice
- Article: When Team Members Won’t Take Accountability
- Leadership Coaching with Ben.
What happens when poor behaviour or performance goes unchecked at work?
In this episode, I cover the risks of working in a consequence-free environment, where team members face no real impact for their actions.
I share why “trying everything” often fails without accountability, and why feedback, formal warnings, or performance improvement plans can all be necessary tools.
Consequences aren’t about punishment – they’re about giving people a reason to change, and creating fairness for the whole team.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Team Accountability Builder Course
- Article: 6 Steps to Deal With Behaviour Issues in Your Team
- Leadership Coaching with Ben
A client once asked me a great question:
“If my values are already part of who I am, why do I need to understand them better?”
In this episode, I unpack the answer.
Your values are always shaping your leadership, but when you understand them clearly, you can see what situations will help you thrive, and which will leave you drained or frustrated.
With this awareness, you can prepare for challenges, choose the right environments, and stay true to what matters most.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Lead With Confidence by Understanding and Using Your Values (Online Course)
- Leadership Coaching with Ben
Leadership credibility isn’t built overnight, and there are no tricks that you can use to be respected in meetings or other forums at work.
In this episode, I talk about the real groundwork which often happens before you need people to listen to you. That’s all about building trust and credibility with your key stakeholders.
I share how to identify who your most important stakeholders are, how to map their influence and interest, and how to grow strong relationships over time.
This groundwork makes it easier to be heard and respected, no matter your leadership style.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Stakeholder Management Tips for the Everyday Leader (Article)
- Episode: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work
- Leadership Coaching with Ben
If you’ve ever been told you’re “too nice” to lead, this episode is for you.
Being a people-pleaser doesn’t disqualify you from being an effective leader. It just means you need to develop a few key skills to protect your energy and set clear expectations.
In this episode, I talk about:
- Why people-pleasing can feel like the easier option
- How it undermines your leadership (and what to do about it)
- Small steps to lead more assertively without losing your empathy.
Leadership isn’t about being harsh or cold, it’s about leading with care and clarity.
Resources:
- 1:1 Coaching: Work with me
- The Useful Thinking Journal
Mindfulness can feel like a buzzword, but it’s also a powerful tool for thoughtful leadership.
In this episode, I explore how mindfulness helps leaders become more self-aware, less reactive, and better equipped to respond under pressure.
I also share my story of mindfulness, including how and why I started using it and the benefits that came when I did.
You’ll learn:
- What mindfulness really means in a leadership context
- Simple ways to bring more awareness into your day
- How mindfulness supports better decision-making
You don’t need to meditate for hours to see the benefits, just a small shift in awareness can make a big difference.
Resources:
- 1:1 Coaching: Work with me
- Waking Up App by Sam Harris
- Headspace
- Guided meditations on Spotify – Search "guided meditation"
- The Useful Thinking Journal
Trust is the foundation of a strong team, but how do you actually build it?
In this episode, I share simple, practical actions you can take as a leader to start strengthening trust, especially if you're leading a team that’s been through some change or challenge.
I also introduce a handy "trust equation" to help you think about ways to build trust.
You’ll hear:
- What trust really looks like at work (and how it shows up)
- Small behaviours that create safety and connection
- How to build trust when you’re new to a team
Trust doesn't grow overnight, but with the right approach, it can build steadily.
Resources:
- 1:1 Coaching: Work with me
- PRINT® Assessment – understand your team’s hidden drivers
- The Trust Equation – Trusted Advisor
What really makes a team high-performing?
In this episode, I take a look at recent research, including findings from McKinsey and Google’s Project Aristotle - to unpack what separates great teams from average ones.
You'll learn:
- The 5 key factors that define high-performing teams
- How psychological safety influences performance
- What you can do as a leader to create the right conditions
You don’t need everything to be perfect to lead a strong team. You just need to focus on the right things.
Resources:
- 1:1 Coaching: Work with me
- McKinsey article on high-performing teams – Article link.
- Google’s Project Aristotle – https://rework.withgoogle.com/en/guides/understanding-team-effectiveness
- Tuckman’s team development model: The 5 Stages of Team Development.
Leadership isn’t about having all the answers, it’s about helping your team find them.
In this episode, I talk about why shifting towards a coaching approach - asking more and telling less - can improve your leadership. It’s not always easy, but it’s worth it.
You’ll discover:
- What a coaching approach looks like in everyday leadership
- The benefits for your team: ownership, confidence, and better ideas; and
- The common fears leaders have about this approach (and how to overcome them).
If you want your team to think for themselves, be more proactive, and feel invested, give this episode a try.
Resources:
- Explore 1:1 leadership coaching: Leadership Coaching Page
- Blog: How Letting Go Will Help You Take Control
- Podcast: Simple Tips to Help You Coach Your People.
Many thoughtful leaders are introverted, and that’s not a weakness. It’s a strength.
In this episode, I share my top five pieces of advice for introverted leaders.
You don’t need to act like an extrovert to lead effectively. You just need to play to your strengths and manage your energy well.
You’ll hear:
- How to protect your downtime so you don’t burn out
- Why being quieter doesn’t mean you can’t have presence; and
- Practical ways to feel more comfortable leading as your true self
If you’ve ever felt like you need to be louder, more extroverted, or “different” to succeed in leadership, this episode will help you lead in a way that feels right for you.
Resources:
- Ready to feel more comfortable and confident as a leader? Book a Coaching Conversation
- Blog: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work.
Ever reacted emotionally and regretted it? You’re not the only one!
In this episode, I talk about the powerful concept of “the gap” – the space between your emotions and the response you choose to take. It’s a concept that helps you lead more calmly and effectively, even under pressure.
You’ll learn:
- How Viktor Frankl’s experience inspired this simple but powerful leadership skill
- Practical ways to pause and choose your response in the moment; and
- How to avoid reacting emotionally in challenging work situations.
If you’ve ever lost your cool or wish you handled a situation differently, this episode will give you tools to lead with more control and confidence.
Resources:
- 1:1 coaching to build your confidence: Leadership Coaching Page
- Podcast episode: Simple Tips to Help You Coach Your People
- Tool: The Useful Thinking Journal – Reflect and build your self-awareness as a leader
- Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.
- Waking Up App: A mindfulness and meditation resource by Sam Harris – Waking Up Website.
- Headspace app: Meditation resource - website.
Kind leadership isn’t about being nice all the time. It’s about leading with respect and care, without falling into the trap of people-pleasing.
In this episode, I unpack some of the common misconceptions about kind leadership. Thoughtful leaders often gravitate towards kindness, but it can backfire if we confuse kindness with always saying yes or avoiding difficult conversations.
You’ll hear:
- Why kindness doesn’t mean weakness
- The difference between being nice and being kind
- How to set boundaries and still be seen as a considerate leader
- Examples of how kind leadership can actually make your team stronger
If you’re someone who cares about your team but sometimes struggles with setting expectations or saying no, this one’s for you.
Resources:
- Explore 1:1 coaching to build your confidence as a thoughtful leader: Leadership Coaching Page
- Blog: How Letting Go Will Help You Take Control.
Ambitious team members can be exciting to lead, but they can also be tricky to manage. So how do you support them without burning out yourself?
In this episode, I explore what to do when you’re leading someone with big goals, a strong drive, and a desire to move quickly.
These employees often have great potential but without the right leadership, they can become frustrated, disengaged or even disruptive to your team.
If you’ve got a team member who’s eager for more, this episode will help you navigate their energy in a healthy, productive way.
What You’ll Learn: * Common challenges leaders face with highly ambitious employees * Three key principles to lead with clarity: honesty, accountability and follow-through * How to help your team member see the real gap between where they are and where they want to go * Why telling them to “just be patient” is usually a mistake * Practical ways to give effective feedback and keep expectations clear
🎯 Key takeaway: You can support ambition without over-promising or overextending yourself. Leading well means being honest and realistic – while also being encouraging and fair.
Resources & Links: * 10 Simple and Effective Tips for Giving Feedback * The Useful Thinking Journal * Team Accountability Builder Online Course * Episode 71 – A Simple Model for Team Motivation * Episode 254 – Prioritising the Career Conversation * Private Leadership Coaching
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Are you staying in a job that no longer supports you, just because you feel loyal to your team or unsure of your next step?
It’s a common challenge for thoughtful leaders. In this episode, I explore why we sometimes stay too long in roles that aren’t working, and how to start thinking clearly about whether it’s time to move on.
What You’ll Learn: * Why staying to “protect” your team might actually hold everyone back * How toxic leadership can damage your self-esteem and confidence * Why trying to “fix” your boss or workplace can keep you stuck * How to start deciding whether to stay or go – in a clear, grounded way.
Resources & Links: * The Iceberg Model of Human Behaviour * The Useful Thinking Journal * Working For an Insecure Manager? Here’s What to Do * Work With Me 1:1.
💭 If you’re feeling stuck in a role that’s draining you, sign up for the Thoughtful Leader newsletter to get weekly support and tools that help you decide your next step – on your own terms.
Can you be a confident leader without being the loudest in the room? Absolutely.
This is a common challenge for thoughtful, introspective leaders.
We often feel pressure to be more outgoing or “on show” to be seen as confident. In this episode, I explore how to build genuine leadership confidence without changing who you are.
What You’ll Learn: * Why the “shoulds” are holding you back * How to reframe what effective leadership really looks like * Why it’s OK to be quieter – and how it can actually be a strength * How to balance being your introverted self with the times you need to step up and speak out
Resources & Links: * The Useful Thinking Journal * Leadership Confidence Online Course * Episode 281 – Speaking Up in Meetings * The PRINT® Assessment
💭 Want to build your confidence in a way that suits you? Join the Thoughtful Leader newsletter and get weekly tips and tools to help you lead with calm and clarity.
Feeling stuck in silence during meetings, even when you have something valuable to say?
You’re not alone.
In this episode, I respond to a listener question about how to speak up more in meetings – a common challenge for many thoughtful, quieter leaders.
If you're someone who finds it hard to contribute when others are dominating the conversation, or you feel like everything worth saying has already been said, this one is for you.
What You’ll Learn * Why this is only a problem if someone sees it as a problem – like your manager * Why relying on a more introvert-friendly workplace isn't always an option * Simple preparation techniques to help you contribute with confidence * How visualisation and practice can help you feel more comfortable when it’s time to speak.
Resources & Links * The Useful Thinking Journal – to support reflection and confidence * Toastmasters – a safe space to practise public speaking * Leadership Confidence Online Course – build presence and authority your way * Thoughtful Leader Podcast #104 – Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work
💭 Ready to lead with confidence, without pretending to be someone you’re not? Join the Thoughtful Leader newsletter for more practical tips.
Episode Summary Collaboration is often seen as the default approach in leadership, but it's not always the most effective choice.
In this episode, Ben Brearley explores a practical model to help leaders decide when to collaborate and when another strategy might be more appropriate.
By understanding the dynamics of goals and relationships, leaders can make more intentional decisions that benefit both their objectives and their teams.
In This Episode, You'll Learn * The importance of assessing both the goal and the relationship when deciding to collaborate * An overview of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode model and its five strategies: Collaborate, Compete, Accommodate, Avoid, and Compromise * How to evaluate the importance of your goals and relationships to choose the most effective approach * Questions to consider that can guide your decision-making process * Strategies to encourage collaboration when others are resistant
Key Takeaways * Collaboration is valuable but should be used intentionally based on the situation * Understanding the balance between achieving goals and maintaining relationships is crucial * Not all situations require collaboration; sometimes, competing, accommodating, avoiding, or compromising may be more effective * Being strategic in your approach can lead to better outcomes and stronger relationships
Resources Mentioned * Episode 119: Too Collaborative? Let’s Avoid This Leadership Trap * 3 Ways That Leaders Can Improve Cross Team Collaboration * Leadership Coaching with Ben
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Episode Summary In this episode, Ben Brearley shares three straightforward strategies to help leaders feel more in control, reduce stress, and make better use of their time each week.
These practical steps are designed to enhance your effectiveness without adding complexity to your schedule.
In This Episode, You'll Learn * The distinction between being effective and feeling effective * How to create a simple weekly plan using time blocks * Techniques for breaking down tasks to fit into your schedule * The importance of weekly planning to stay on top of priorities * How to identify when your workload is unsustainable * Ways to communicate effectively about workload challenges
Key Takeaways * Time blocking helps prioritize essential tasks and ensures you allocate time for what matters most * Breaking tasks into manageable chunks prevents procrastination and increases productivity * Regular weekly planning keeps you focused and adaptable to changes * Recognising workload limits allows for proactive discussions with stakeholders about capacity and expectations
Resources Mentioned * Episode 156: Let's Dismantle the Cult of Busyness * Time Management for Leaders Online Course (Use code TIME50 for 50% off) * Leadership Coaching with Ben
Enjoyed This Episode? If you found this episode helpful, please leave a positive review on your preferred podcast platform. Your feedback helps spread the word to other thoughtful leaders.
Ready for More Support? Book a free 30-minute consultation with Ben to explore how leadership coaching can address your challenges: 👉 Book a Leadership Coaching Consultation
Episode Summary Feeling overwhelmed is a common challenge in today's workplaces.
In this episode, Ben Brearley delves into practical strategies to support team members grappling with stress and burnout.
Ben offers actionable advice to help leaders navigate this pervasive issue.
In This Episode, You'll Learn: * Identifying Overwhelm: Recognize signs of stress and burnout in your team. * Clarifying Workload: Assist team members in assessing the feasibility of their tasks. * Categorizing Tasks: Help prioritize work by grouping tasks into manageable categories. * Time Management: Understand the importance of aligning tasks with available time blocks. * Setting Boundaries: Encourage setting personal limits to maintain well-being. * Empowering Autonomy: Foster a culture where team members can manage their workload effectively.
Key Takeaways * Uncertainty Fuels Overwhelm: Clarifying tasks and expectations can alleviate stress. * Simple Strategies Work: Implementing straightforward methods can lead to sustainable improvements. * Avoid Micromanagement: Empowering team members promotes independence and resilience.
Resources Mentioned * Feeling Overwhelmed? Here's How to Help Your Team * Episode 197: Helping Stressed Team Members * Episode 65: How to Deal With Uncertainty – Working "In the Grey" * What to Do When You're Asked to Do It All.
Enjoyed This Episode? If you found this episode valuable, please leave a positive review on your preferred podcast platform. Your feedback helps spread the word to other thoughtful leaders.
Ready for More Support? Book a free 30-minute consultation with Ben to explore how leadership coaching can address your challenges: 👉 Book a Leadership Coaching Consultation.
Episode Summary Sometimes, despite our best intentions, we can accidentally enable bad behaviour within our teams.
In this episode, Ben explores three subtle but powerful ways leaders might unintentionally allow bad behaviour to grow and how to address it before it causes bigger issues.
In This Episode, You'll Learn: * How being unavailable to your team can create opportunities for bad behaviour to go unnoticed. * Why addressing only the symptoms (not the real issue) can allow bad behaviour to persist. * The risks of focusing too much on results and overlooking how those results are achieved.
Key Takeaways: ✅ Being present physically or virtually helps you observe, support, and guide your team more effectively. ✅ Direct conversations with team members about their behaviour are essential - don’t just tweak processes and hope for the best. ✅ Results matter, but so does how you achieve them. Ignoring bad behaviour in high performers can harm team morale, collaboration, and long-term success.
Resources Mentioned: * Episode 149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns * Top 3 Time Management Skills for Busy Leaders
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Ready for more support? Book your free 30-minute consultation with Ben: 👉 Book a Leadership Coaching Consultation
Welcome to Episode 276 of the Thoughtful Leader Podcast!
In this episode, we explore why thoughtful leaders tend to take things personally and how to break free from this habit.
If you find yourself internalising feedback, criticism, or workplace challenges, this episode is for you.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn: * Why thoughtful leaders are prone to taking things personally. * The impact of personalizing feedback and criticism on leadership effectiveness. * Practical strategies to create separation between personal identity and workplace challenges.
Key Takeaways: 1. Understand Why We Take Things Personally
* Thoughtful leaders are introspective and tend to overanalyse situations.
* Low confidence or comparison to extroverted colleagues can make leaders more vulnerable to negative self-talk.
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Examine the Context
- Write down the factors involved in a situation and assess how many are actually about you.
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Extract the Lessons
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Separate self-blame from constructive learning by asking: What would I do differently next time?
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Consider the Other Person’s Motive
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Most negative interactions are influenced by external factors unrelated to you, like stress or fear.
- Learn more about the Iceberg Model of Human Behaviour in Episode 209.
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Question Expectations
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Ask yourself whether unrealistic “shoulds” are driving your reactions.
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Use Psychological Distancing
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Describe the situation as if you were a fly on the wall to gain a more objective perspective.
- Reframe the issue by imagining how you’d advise a respected colleague in the same situation.
Resources Mentioned: * What is Self-Concept? * How to Accept Feedback in a Useful Way * Should You Be Yourself or Adapt to Your Audience? * Low in Confidence? That’s a Good Thing * Thoughtful Leader Podcast #209: How to Build Empathy Using the Iceberg Model * 3 Ways to Reduce Unhelpful Thinking * Leadership Confidence Online Course: Get 50% off with code CONFIDENCE-50. Check it out here.
Connect with Ben Brearley: * Website: www.thoughtfulleader.com * LinkedIn: Connect with Ben * Email: ben@thoughtfulleader.com
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Welcome to Episode 275 of the Thoughtful Leader Podcast!
In this episode, we explore why an employee might appear “bad” and uncover some hidden reasons behind poor performance and behaviour.
Before jumping to conclusions, it’s essential to dig deeper and find out what’s really going on.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn: * Why an employee might be struggling – skill gaps, motivation issues, or personal challenges. * How leadership style and team dynamics play a role in shaping employee behavior. * Actionable steps to diagnose and address poor performance constructively.
Key Takeaways: 1. A Skill Gap Can Look Like a Motivation Problem * Employees may avoid tasks they aren’t confident in, leading to misinterpretations of laziness or disengagement. 2. Motivation Issues Often Have Hidden Causes * Boredom, lack of challenge, a poor work environment, or a mismatch in job fit can all reduce motivation. 3. Team Dynamics Matter * Conflict with colleagues or a poor cultural fit can affect an employee’s performance and engagement. 4. Leadership Approach Influences Behavior * Overbearing or hands-off leadership can contribute to performance issues. 5. Personal Challenges Can Affect Work Performance * External stressors such as financial struggles, health issues, or family problems may be at play.
Resources Mentioned: * Leadership Coaching: Need support with difficult employees? Book a free coaching consultation. * Thoughtful Leader Podcast #251: Dealing with People Problems? Remember These Things. * How to Create a Skills Matrix and Improve Your Team * 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team * Introverted Leaders vs. Extroverted Leaders. Who Wins? * Are You a Micromanaging Boss? Let’s Make a Change * Thoughtful Leader Podcast #209: How to Build Empathy Using the Iceberg Model.
Connect with Ben Brearley: * Website: www.thoughtfulleader.com * LinkedIn: Connect with Ben * Email: ben@thoughtfulleader.com
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Welcome to Episode 274 of the Thoughtful Leader Podcast!
In this episode, we explore the balance between authenticity and adaptability in leadership.
Should you stay true to your natural style, or adjust to meet the preferences of those around you? Let’s dive in.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn: * The Benefits of Being Authentic: How staying true to yourself can build trust and make leadership more effortless. * The Drawbacks of Rigidity: Why sticking strictly to your natural style might not always serve you or your team well. * When to Adapt Your Approach: Identifying situations where adjusting your style can lead to better outcomes.
Key Takeaways: 1. Understand the Power of Authenticity
* Being yourself allows for natural interactions and can build trust within your team.
* Authentic leadership fosters integrity and consistency.
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Recognise the Need for Adaptability
- Certain situations may require you to adjust your style to communicate effectively.
- Flexibility can enhance your ability to lead diverse teams and handle various challenges.
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Assess the Situation
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Consider the context and the individuals involved before deciding whether to adapt or remain steadfast in your approach.
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Balance is Key
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Strive to find a middle ground where you remain true to your core values while being open to necessary adjustments.
Resources Mentioned: * Dr. Brian Little’s TED Talk: “Who Are You, Really?” – Watch here. * Introverted Leaders vs. Extroverted Leaders. Who Wins?
- Personality Assessments:
- PRINT® Assessment
- 16Personalities
Special Offer: As a valued listener, enjoy a 20% discount on the Useful Thinking Journal. Use the coupon code TLPODCAST at checkout. Get your copy here.
Connect with Ben Brearley: * Website: www.thoughtfulleader.com * LinkedIn: Connect with Ben * Email: ben@thoughtfulleader.com
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In this Q&A episode, we dive into an important topic: How to Keep Supervisors Motivated in Leadership Roles.
Supervisors are the middle layer between senior management and the front line. In many ways, they set the scene and role model the behaviours that you want the front line employees to be following.
So what happens when your supervisors aren’t motivated?
Well… not good stuff.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn: ✅ Why demotivated supervisors can impact team performance ✅ How leaders can create conditions for motivation without forcing it ✅ A five-step game plan to support and engage supervisors
Key Takeaways: 1. Get the Basics Right
* Address hygiene factors like fair pay, safe working conditions, and equitable policies.
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Diagnose the Issue
- Have one-on-one conversations to understand individual motivation challenges.
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Build a Sense of Purpose
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Help supervisors see how their work connects to broader company goals.
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Encourage Autonomy
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Allow supervisors to take ownership of their roles and decision-making.
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Support and Remove Roadblocks
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Engage with senior leadership to ensure supervisors have the tools and support they need.
Resources Mentioned: * Leadership Coaching for Thoughtful Leaders – Need help navigating leadership challenges? Apply for coaching today. * The Useful Thinking Journal – A powerful tool for self-reflection and leadership growth. Get your copy here. * PRINT® Assessment – Understand team dynamics and improve motivation. Learn more here. * Iceberg Model of Human Behaviour – Learn about underlying motivation factors. Read more. * Motivation Models – Explore Herzberg’s Two-Factor Theory and Daniel Pink’s motivation framework. Read more.
Connect with Ben Brearley: 🌐 Website: www.thoughtfulleader.com 📩 Subscribe to the Thoughtful Leader Newsletter for leadership insights every week! 💬 LinkedIn: Connect with Ben 📩 Have a leadership question? Email Ben at ben@thoughtfulleader.com for a chance to have it answered on the podcast!
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Micromanagement is not a good thing, but I think it’s natural to feel like doing it sometimes.
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try to reduce the habit!
In this episode I take a look at the problems with micromanagement, and how you can reduce the feeling that you need to do it with your team.
Interested in working with me? Book your free 30-minute consultation, where we'll discuss your goals and challenges and how my coaching may be able to help.
Then we can decide whether we're a good fit to work together.
Click here to book your free consultation.
Show Links:
- Build Empathy Iceberg Model – This link leads to an article discussing the Iceberg Model of Human Behaviour, which is useful for understanding the hidden factors driving behaviors like micromanagement.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #123: Common Leadership Fears and How to Challenge Them – This podcast episode explores common leadership fears and strategies to overcome them, helping leaders manage their emotions and actions more effectively.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #232: Trying to Give Your Team More Autonomy? Watch These Traps – This podcast discusses how leaders can empower their teams with more autonomy, while avoiding common pitfalls.
- Can’t Trust Your Team? Why it Really Matters – This article delves into the importance of trust in leadership and how lack of trust can affect team dynamics.
- Top 5 Time Management Tips for Leaders – This post provides valuable time management strategies for leaders looking to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.
- The 5 Whys root cause analysis technique – This resource explains the “5 Whys” technique for identifying the root causes of problems, a helpful tool for leaders trying to address micromanagement tendencies.
- Why Exercising Restraint Is Important For Good Leadership – This article highlights the importance of showing restraint as a leader and how it can enhance leadership effectiveness.
If you have a favourite employee at work, you aren’t the only one!
Good employees are like gold – they help you out, make your job less stressful and lighten the load.
But… there’s always a but… what is happening in the team when you have a favourite employee?
Let’s find out in this episode.
Interested in working with me? Book your free 30-minute consultation, where we'll discuss your goals and challenges and how my coaching may be able to help.
Then we can decide whether we're a good fit to work together.
Click here to book your free consultation.
Show Links:
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #228: Should You Be Friends With Your Team Members? – This podcast episode explores whether it is appropriate to develop friendships with team members.
- Why Even Good Leaders Can Show a Lack of Integrity – A blog post discussing the potential for even good leaders to exhibit integrity issues.
- What Is the Halo Effect? – An article that explains the Halo Effect, a cognitive bias that can lead to favoritism and overlooking flaws in certain individuals.
Blaming others is a common past time in many workplaces.
And it’s so easy to slip into the habit of blaming, because we want to protect ourselves and let everyone know it wasn’t our fault!
In this episode I look at some of the reasons why we blame, and what to try doing instead.
After all, it’s not helping you or your team!
Interested in working with me? Book your free 30-minute consultation, where we'll discuss your goals and challenges and how my coaching may be able to help.
Then we can decide whether we're a good fit to work together.
Click here to book your free consultation.
Show Links:
- Brenè Brown’s short video on blame – Brenè Brown discusses the relationship between blame and accountability.
- Why Leaders Should Show Vulnerability at Work – An article on the importance of vulnerability for leaders.
- Just Beyond Yourself: When to Push Out of Your Comfort Zone – A guide on pushing beyond comfort zones for growth.
- Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality? – Explores the concept of victim mentality in leadership.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #209: How to Build Empathy Using the Iceberg Model – Podcast episode on building empathy through the Iceberg Model.
The phrase “feedback is a gift” is pretty common in many workplaces.
While feedback can be a great way to know how you’re doing and to improve, it can also be a bad thing.
Many people are terrible at giving feedback, so accepting it all would be a mistake.
In this episode I take a look at how to decide whether to accept or reject feedback, and how to use feedback to keep improving.
Struggling to accept that feedback you received? Reflect on it using The Useful Thinking Journal. It will help you process your thoughts and feelings and help you do better next time. Interested in working with me? Book your free 30-minute consultation, where we'll discuss your goals and challenges and how my coaching may be able to help.
Then we can decide whether we're a good fit to work together.
Click here to book your free consultation.
Show Links:
- Blind Spots: How to Shrink Yours to Lead Better – A guide on how to reduce blind spots in leadership to lead more effectively.
- 10 Simple & Effective Tips For Giving Feedback – Practical advice on how to give feedback in a constructive and helpful manner.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #247: How to Listen Better at Work (and Why It Matters) – A podcast episode discussing the importance of active listening in the workplace.
- Why Leaders Should Have a Reflective Practice – An article emphasizing the benefits of reflective practice for leaders.
- My Useful Thinking Journal – A tool designed to help individuals reflect and improve their decision-making processes.
- How to Stop Ruminating – A resource offering strategies to stop overthinking and reduce stress from negative thoughts.
Everyone wants to feel more confident, because we worry less and feel as if we’ve got everything under control.
The problem is, we all have those self-doubting thoughts from time to time.
And the more you push yourself and improve, you’ll be putting yourself in new situations which will stretch you even more, and potentially make you feel even less confident!
But, what if your lack of confidence could actually be a good thing? I reckon it is, and that’s what I’ll talk about in this episode.
Stop overthinking, make sense of your emotions and start taking action: The Useful Thinking Journal. Interested in working with me? If you're ready to improve your leadership situation, click the link to apply for your complimentary 30-minute discovery call: Apply Now.
Show Links:
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #219: 4 Steps to Grow Your Leadership Confidence – Gain insights into practical steps for building confidence in your leadership role.
- Leadership Confidence Problem? Let’s Diagnose It – Explore potential confidence challenges in leadership and strategies to overcome them.
- How Much Technical Expertise Should You Have to Lead Your Team? – Delve into the role of technical expertise in effective team leadership.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #58: Why Leaders Should Do More Planning (and Why They Don’t) – Understand the benefits of planning in leadership and reasons why leaders sometimes avoid it.
- Why Leaders Should Show Vulnerability at Work – Learn why showing vulnerability can help leaders build trust and credibility with their teams.
- Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How – Discover actionable steps for developing trustworthiness as a key leadership trait.
Our beliefs shape the actions we take, which makes a big difference in how we lead.
In this episode, I’m going to look at some key beliefs which can make a positive difference on your team.
But what if you don’t have these beliefs? Well, I’ll discuss that too.
Stop overthinking, make sense of your emotions and start taking action: The Useful Thinking Journal. Interested in working with me? If you're ready to improve your leadership situation, click the link to apply for your complimentary 30-minute discovery call: Apply Now.
Show Links:
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #158: Let’s Build a Better Leadership Mindset. – Explore how mindset shifts can improve leadership and build a positive workplace environment.
- Team Improvement: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Love It – Discover strategies to help leaders support team growth and encourage continuous improvement.
- Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum – Learn techniques to increase employee motivation and productivity within your team.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #22: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy & Leadership. – Understand how a leader’s beliefs and expectations can impact team behaviour and outcomes.
Leaders have a huge impact on the people they lead in terms of job satisfaction, morale and performance.
So do we want leaders who are running around busy, with no time to think?
No, you need time and space to think, so you can be more intentional about what you’re doing.
You’ll make better decisions, and that will benefit your teams and your organisation (not to mention yourself).
In this episode, I discuss some ideas to get more thinking time in your day, so you can lead better.
Stop overthinking, make sense of your emotions and start taking action: The Useful Thinking Journal. Interested in working with me? If you're ready to improve your leadership situation, click the link to apply for your complimentary 30-minute discovery call: Apply Now.
Show Links:
- 3 Ways to Reduce Unhelpful Thinking – Practical tips to manage and reduce unproductive thought patterns.
- Parkinson’s Law – Explanation of Parkinson’s Law and how shorter meetings can increase productivity.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness – Podcast discussing the need to move away from constant busyness.
- Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things – Advice for leaders feeling overwhelmed by work.
- Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader – Tips to handle challenging stakeholders and maintain focus.
- Why Leaders Should Have a Reflective Practice – Benefits of a regular reflective practice for leadership.
- Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team – Ideas for identifying and providing team growth opportunities.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #112: Why Smart Leaders Seek Continuous Improvement – Podcast discussing continuous improvement as a leadership skill.
- Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team) – Insight on creating meaningful work for team motivation.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #73: Why We Need More Mindfulness In Leadership – Explores how mindfulness can enhance leadership.
Self-motivation is an important ingredient in the leadership puzzle.
After all, we generally know how we should be leading. We’ve read the leadership books and listened to all the leadership podcasts.
But it’s hard to show up every day with a great attitude and feeling motivated.
That’s why in this episode, I take a look at some self-motivation ideas to help you show up in the best way you can, more often.
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Show Links:
- Dan Goleman – Psychologist Daniel Goleman popularized the concept of Emotional Intelligence, essential for leadership.
- Emotional Intelligence has been shown to be one of the best predictors of leadership success – Harvard Business highlights EQ as key to effective and successful leadership.
- How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership – Practical tips for leaders to manage emotions and handle stress constructively.
- Why You Need to Know Your Values In Leadership – Understanding core values guides leaders toward more authentic decision-making.
- Lead Better By Understanding Your Core Values – A podcast on aligning leadership actions with personal values to inspire authenticity.
- Values at INSEAD – INSEAD shows how core values enhance leadership effectiveness in its programs.
- Wellbeing at Work: How Leaders Can Support It – Strategies for leaders to promote well-being and balance in the workplace.
- Setting Team Goals: Tips for Thoughtful Leaders – Tips on creating clear, achievable team goals that motivate and align with vision.
- Writing down goals – Writing down goals boosts commitment, motivation, and follow-through.
- Hal Elrod’s Miracle Morning – A morning routine guide aimed at boosting daily productivity and positivity.
- Waking Up – A meditation app by Sam Harris to help improve focus, self-awareness, and emotional health.
- Morning sunlight – Morning sunlight supports better sleep, mood, and overall health.
- Smiling and mood – Smiling, even when forced, can improve mood and reduce stress.
The 4-day work week is becoming more popular these days, following several trials in various countries.
There are a few characteristics of the 4-day work week which I find contribute to its success.
In this episode, I look at these characteristics and how we can apply them to any workplace, even if you aren’t lucky enough to have a 4-day work week!
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Show Links:
- ABC: 4-day work week study.
- How the working week originated.
- Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You’re Asked to Do It All.
- How to Set Clear Priorities For Your Team.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #92: Struggling to Say No? Try These 5 Ways!
- 3 Major Work Time Wasters That Create an Unhappy Team.
Regular reflection is generally regarded as a great thing to be doing, but I’ve found that the majority of leaders (that I speak to anyway) don’t do it!
That’s why I created The Useful Thinking Journal, which is a journal aiming to help you reflect in a structured way, and turn those reflections into real action so you can improve, or keep achieving success.
In this episode I talk about some of the benefits of reflection, the challenges that many leaders face when it comes to reflection, and how The Useful Thinking Journal can help.
You can order your copy of the journal here: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/the-useful-thinking-journal/.
Many thoughtful leaders find themselves feeling guilty at work.
Not because they’ve necessarily done anything wrong – more that they are heaping pressure on themselves and suffering under the weight of expectation.
In this episode, I look at the common sources of guilt and introduce a simple process you can follow to unravel these feelings and feel better about taking action.
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Show Links:
- 3 Ways to Reduce Unhelpful Thinking.
- Worrying About Work? Tips For Thoughtful Leaders.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #83: Handling Emotions in Leadership.
- 4 Phrases Overheard In An Unproductive Workplace.
You might think of unproductive workplaces as ones where people aren’t doing much.
I’ve found it’s quite the opposite – often people are running around madly… being busy.
In this episode, I take a look at the cost of an unproductive workplace (other than just the money) and some of the common signs that we might hear that make it a bad place to be!
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Show Links:
- How to Help Your Team Feel a Sense of Purpose.
- Definition: Unwritten ground rules.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
- Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
- Why taking breaks is good for productivity.
- Productivity research from Microsoft.
- Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing.
Bashing the boss is a favourite pastime for many employees.
We don’t want to be a boss that’s worthy of this sort of treatment, so in this episode I take a look at some of the common reasons why people generally complain about their boss.
Then we can do things differently and give them fewer things to complain about!
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Show Links:
- What is Knowledge work?
- Directive Leadership: 4 Situations When You Should Be Using It.
- How Much Technical Expertise Should You Have to Lead Your Team?.
- Team Improvement: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Love It.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #186: Could Doing the Opposite Be Good For Your Leadership?
- Kouzes and Posner research.
- Sam Harris website.
- Honest Leadership: How to Bring It More Often (and Why It Matters).
- Valuable Leadership: Are You Hurting or Helping Your Team?.
- The Cult of Busyness: How Leaders Can Kill It.
- How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership.
- Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
- Why Leaders Should Have a Reflective Practice.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #144: Is It Time to Start Putting Yourself First?
Talk to many employees, and they’ll tell you that their boss is one of their biggest time management challenges.
So is this the case when it comes to your leadership?
In this episode, I take a look at whether you might be time management problem for your team, and what to do about it.
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Show Links:
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness
- Forget the Tools, Master These Top 3 Time Management Skills
- Self Assessment Tools: How to Get the Most Out of Them
- 4 Subtle Signs That Your Team is Overworked
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities
- Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”.
Reflection has significant benefits for leaders, but I find that many leaders don’t engage in reflection very often.
In this episode, I’ll take a look at the benefits of reflection and some of the issues that people encounter with it.
Then, I’ll outline some practical steps to implement a reflective practice for yourself (and keep it up!)
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Show Links:
- Gratitude journalling overview.
- 3 Ways to Reduce Unhelpful Thinking.
- Want to Show Confidence? Start by Noticing.
- Learning from successes and failures: Ellis et al, 2006.
- How Reflection Aids Performance: Di Stefano et al, 2014.
- Positive Work Reflection: Sonnentag et al 2021.
- People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #204: Create Better Leadership Habits With These 3 Key Ingredients.
- Charles Duhigg: How habits work.
- Why does writing by hand promote better and faster learning?
Having a sense of purpose is critical according to several motivation theories and models.
So how do we help our people find it?
In this episode, I take a look at some practical ways that you can assist your team to find their sense of purpose.
It’s not our responsibility to find it for our team, but we can help to create the right environment.
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Show Links:
- Dan Pink’s “Drive”.
- Job Characteristics model.
- David Rock’s SCARF model.
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #84: How to Give Your Team More Meaningful Work.
- Why No One Cares About Your Company Values (and How to Fix It).
- Why You Should Prioritise That Career Conversation.
- Team Improvement: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Love It.
- Roles and Responsibilities Unclear? Do This.
- Making Difficult Decisions: Essential Steps for Leaders.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
Getting out of your comfort zone is a worthwhile thing to do.
But being out of your comfort zone all the time is stressful and draining.
So when it comes to leadership, when should we make the effort to get out of our comfort zone?
I take a look at this topic in this episode.
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Show links:
- Waking Up app.
- David Whyte Poem: Just Beyond Yourself.
- 4 Critical Steps to Grow Your Confidence In Leadership.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #53: Why Trusting Your People Is Your Best Strategy.
- 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #224: Are You a Quiet Leader? Use These Tips to Lead More Effectively.
- How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
“Quiet quitting” is a relatively recent term that describes people doing the bare minimum at work.
They aren’t exactly quitting, but they’re no longer going “over and above” for their organisation.
In this episode, I take a look at whether this is a real problem at all… and whether simply leading better could be the solution.
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Show Links:
- 5 Questions to Ask An Unmotivated Team Member
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #231: Tips to Set More Effective Team Goals
- How Leaders Can Avoid Setting Unrealistic Expectations
- Roles and Responsibilities Unclear? Do This
- Taking On Too Much? Here’s Why.
Thoughtful leaders have the positive quality of being… well… thoughtful.
This can be a great thing, but it can also come with challenges of overthinking and rumination which aren’t at all helpful.
In this episode, I take a look at some research-based ideas that might help when you are struggling to get out of an unhelpful thinking rut.
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- Overthinking Things? How Thoughtful Leaders Can Stop It
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #219: 4 Steps to Grow Your Leadership Confidence
- Worrying About Work? Tips For Thoughtful Leaders
- All or Nothing Thinking: How Is It Impacting Your Leadership?
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #140: Are You Being Too Optimistic?
- Why Self Acceptance is a Foundation for Good Leadership.
Having career conversations with your team members can make a huge difference in leadership.
However, many leaders don’t make the time for them and I think they’re missing an opportunity.
In this episode, we’ll take a look at the benefits of career conversations, how to have them effectively and some of the reasons why many leaders don’t have them… or really struggle to deliver them effectively.
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Show Links:
- How Short Term Thinking Leads to Bad Leadership
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #214: How to Start Being More Trustworthy For Your Team
- Book by Daniel Pink: Drive
- Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team)
- Liked or Respected: Which Would You Rather Be?
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #165: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
Displaying vulnerability takes courage, especially when you’re in a leadership role.
Many leaders feel an expectation to know all the answers or give the perfect directions, or to display the “stiff upper lip” mentality and show resilience in the face of any challenge.
In this episode, we’re going to look at the potential benefits of showing vulnerability and how you might start going about it.
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- Directive Leadership: 4 Situations When You Should Be Using It
- How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership
- Thoughtful Leader Pocast #214: How to Start Being More Trustworthy For Your Team
- Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?
- 5 Leadership Misconceptions We Need to Correct.
It’s easy to fall prey to some common leadership excuses that stop us from taking action.
But… doing nothing is a choice like any other!
In this episode I discuss some common excuses I hear for putting up with bad behaviour or poor performance.
Do any of them sound familiar?
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- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns
- 6 Steps to Deal With Behaviour Issues In Your Team
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #183: Power Dynamics: How Are They Impacting Your Team?
- How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #229: Is a Direct Conversation Needed? Use This Checklist.
- Why Leaders Must Drive Consequences in the Workplace
- Setting Team Goals: Tips for Thoughtful Leaders
- Why No One Cares About Your Company Values (and How to Fix It)
- Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
- Seeing Negative Behaviour Patterns? Here’s How to Stop Them
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #82: Thoughtful Leader’s 5 Cs of Performance Management
- Got People Problems? Here Are 5 Reassuring Thoughts
- Imperfect Principles for Having a Challenging Conversation
- Is It Picking Your Battles or Just Avoidance?
- People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
Dealing with people problems in a team can be stressful and frustrating.
But to manage them effectively, you need to demonstrate persistence!
So in this episode, I take a look at some point to keep in mind that may help you feel a little more positive about your situation.
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Show Links:
- Harvard article: Positive reframing and examining evidence
- Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #200: How to Feel More Positive at Work
- The Iceberg Model of Human Behavior
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #129: Are Your People Resistant to Change? Try These Tips!
- Tips for Thoughtful Leaders Who Worry about Work.
Most of us don’t feel like we’re very inspiring. We tend to leave that to the “celebrity” leaders out there.
But wait a minute – being an inspiring leader might be easier than you think!
In this episode I take a look at why being inspiring is important, and some simple ways you might go about it.
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- The Leadership Challenge
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #90: Beating Leadership Imposter Syndrome
- How to Stay Calm at Work: 5 Tips for Leaders
- How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership
- The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership
- Worrying About Work? Tips For Thoughtful Leaders
- 6 Great Ways to Support Your Team
- Wellbeing at Work: How Leaders Can Support It
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #144: Is It Time to Start Putting Yourself First?
- Compelling Reasons to Say “No” Today
- Brené Brown website.
- Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #134: Improve Your Leadership With Daily Commitments.
Many people are looking for one thing: a perfect way to have a challenging conversation without people getting upset or saying the wrong thing.
Unfortunately, this doesn’t exist, and a challenging conversation will always be uncomfortable!
In this episode, I take a look at some principles to apply to challenging conversations, instead of focusing on the perfect preparation or process.
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- Crucial Conversations Course.
- Crucial Conversations Book.
- Difficult Conversations Book.
- Thoughtful Leader Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Build Empathy With the Iceberg Model.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #214: Self-interest is a trust destroyer.
- Article: Why Building Trust Is Better Than Authority.
“Pick your battles” is pretty good advice.
Unless you use this statement to avoid tackling important issues, when you should be trying to solve them.
In this episode, I take a look at some guidelines to help you decide whether you’re actually practicing avoidance, or wisely picking your battles.
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Show Links:
- Avoiding Conflict? Here’s What’s Really Happening.
- Is Optimism Bias Sabotaging Your Leadership?
- Adaptive leadership theory.
- The War of Art.
- 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
- Sphere of Control – Leadership Mindset Change.
- Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
We know that communication is an important leadership skill.
However, I think we sometimes get stuck on the speaking and writing more than the listening.
In this episode, I offer some ideas of how you might listen better at work, and why this can be so important.
The DISC Model
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- The Power of Paying Attention.
- DISC psychometric assessment.
- Build Empathy with the Iceberg Model.
- The Neuro-Science of Everybody’s Favorite Topic – Themselves.
- Coaching Employees? Try These Tips.
- Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
I think there is a difference between displaying confidence and being confident.
One is within your control, the other isn’t.
In this episode, I take a look at how you might start to display confidence in leadership from a simple starting point: noticing.
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- Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #219: 4 Steps to Grow Your Leadership Confidence.
- Why You Need to Speak Up at Work (and Why You Don’t).
- Want to Be More Assertive? Watch Your Words.
Hearing “it’s not my job” from a team member can be frustrating, and it’s a common occurrence in many workplaces.
But before we blame the team member, it’s worth thinking about the possible reasons for this statement.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the common causes of this behaviour and what you can do about it.
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- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #106: Not Seeing Enough Teamwork? Try This!
- 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Motivate Your People Using These 3 Levers.
- Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #142: How Leaders Can Support Wellbeing at Work.
I’m a big fan of using self-assessment (or psychometric) tools to help people understand more about themselves and each other.
However, they aren’t perfect and we need to use them with a bit of caution.
In this post, I take a look at some of the things to watch out for and clarify when you’re using these types of tools for your team.
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- Article: The Iceberg Model
- PRINT® assessment
- Clifton Strengths
- DISC
- MBTI
- EQi 2.0 Emotional Intelligence
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #203: Want to Feel Better Leading? Self-Acceptance Is a Good Start.
- Article: Introverted Leaders vs. Extroverted Leaders. Who Wins?
- Article: Professor Brian Little refers to deviations of behaviour like this as “free traits”
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #153: Why Knowing Yourself Equals Better Leadership.
- Article: 5 Tips For Quiet Leaders
- Article: Blind Spots: How to Shrink Yours to Lead Better
- Article: Don’t Know Your Employees? Here’s Why You Should.
Being assertive is important in leadership, because it helps us to look out for our own needs and those of our team.
But it doesn’t come naturally to everyone, and we can fall into non-assertive habits.
In this episode, I take a look at some tips to appear more assertive, based on tweaking the language that we use.
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- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #219: 4 Steps to Grow Your Leadership Confidence
- Article: 7 Things Leaders Should Stop Saying
- Article: Is Passive Leadership Destroying Your Team’s Motivation?
I find that many thoughtful leaders are introspective and often stuck in their own heads.
It goes with the territory of being thoughtful, I suppose!
This can be problematic if we start to worry excessively about work.
So in this episodes, I’ve collected some tips that have helped me over the years and hopefully they can help you too.
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- Black Dog Institute Website (For mental health resources)
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #72: How You Can Be a More Thoughtful Leader Today.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #143: How to Stop Overthinking Things
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast #200: How to Feel More Positive at Work
- Book: The Happiness Trap.
- Waking Up.
- Article: Box breathing
- Huberman Lab Podcast: How to breathe correctly for optimal health, mood, learning, and performance.
Company values have been around for years, but they can certainly attract a lot of cynicism.
If they are just a poster on the wall which nobody reads, they probably aren’t doing much good.
However, I think they can be valuable when you’re trying to get lots of people working in the same direction!
In this episode, I take a look at why many people don’t care about company values, and some ways that you might start to make them more useful for your team.
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- Brene Brown values list: Brene Brown.
- James Clear values list: James Clear.
- “Built to Last” by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras: Built to Last.
- Podcast: Lead Better By Understanding Your Core Values.
- Article: Why Even Good Leaders Can Show a Lack of Integrity.
- Article: Seeing Negative Behaviour Patterns? Here’s How to Stop Them.
- Resources: Live Your Values Deck.
- Article: Why Team Purpose Matters.
We all have stories that we carry around in our heads like baggage.
Some of these stories are helpful, while others can actually work against us.
In this episode, I take a look at the concept of stories and think about how we might challenge them to put ourselves in a better place.
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- Article: How Are Your Stories Shaping Your Leadership?
- Article: How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #158: Let’s Build a Better Leadership Mindset.
Encouraging someone to change their behaviour or attitude is hard work, because there are a bunch of barriers that may get in the way.
To help you understand and navigate your way through the process you can use the simple model in this episode.
It’s simple, generic and can be used in many situations!
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- Article: Encourage Change In Your Team With This Simple Model.
- Article: 10 Simple & Effective Tips For Giving Feedback.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #113: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mindset?
- Article: People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
We often hear about controlling managers who micromanage people.
But what about controlling employees, who hoard information and wield influence?
In this episode, I take a look at trying to lead a controlling employee, as well as what might be beneath the surface for them.
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- Article: How to Lead a Controlling Employee.
- Article: Build Empathy With the Iceberg Model.
- Article: Seeing Negative Behaviour Patterns? Here’s How to Stop Them.
- Article: Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
- Article: Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader.
Leadership is not easy, and sometimes we need a boost of courage and motivation to keep us going. In this episode, I take a look at some of my favourite motivational resources that I've collected over the last few years. Hopefully they can help you too!
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- Article: 5 Thoughtful Resources to Help Your Leadership.
- Seth Godin: “Everyone is Doing Their Best”.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Can Build Empathy in the Workplace (and Why It Matters).
- Article: Are You Too Busy to Lead Effectively?
- Nancy Kline: Time to Think.
There are many stereotypes we hear about younger generations.
They’re lazy…. uncommitted…. have no loyalty.
But are the younger generations actually just showing behaviours that can guide us towards better leadership?
In this episode, I take a look at some lessons I think we can learn from younger generations which can make our workplaces better.
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- Article: 4 Leadership Lessons to Learn From Younger Generations.
- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Leadership Model: Kouzes and Posner’s Exemplary Leadership model.
- Article: Millennials – The Job-Hopping Generation.
- Article: American Institute of Stress – Are You Experiencing Workplace Stress?
Leaders don’t set out to seem like they don’t care.
They become that way because of stressful work environments and chaotic workplaces.
Even thoughtful leaders can seem uncaring if they aren’t careful.
In this episode, I take a look at my top 5 innocent uncaring leadership actions, so you can look out for, and avoid them.
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- Article: 5 Innocent Actions That Make You Seem Like An Uncaring Leader.
- Forbes: Discover the Top 5 Reasons Workers Want to Quit Their Jobs.
- Article: The Cult of Busyness: How Leaders Can Kill It.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #130: How to Make Your 1 to 1 Meetings Better.
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate (and How to Do It More).
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
Sometimes leaders can let their roles go to their heads, becoming wrapped-up in their own self-importance.
This can be a trap which even thoughtful leaders can fall into!
In this episode, I’ll take a look at some common warning signs that you might be taking yourself a little too seriously, so you can lighten up a bit.
You never know, people might respect you more for it.
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- Article: Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?
- Book: The Art of Possibility.
- Video: Rule #6.
- Article: Is Your Ego Damaging Your Leadership?
- Article: Lessons Learnt From Career Burnout.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #132: Would You Rather Be Liked or Respected?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
Tuckman’s Team Development Model has been around for a while, but I find it to still be relevant and useful today.
Some people think that you can whack people together and become high-performing straight away.
This just ain’t true, and this model helps to understand what stages a team goes through to get to that high-performing point.
In this episode, I’ll take a look at the stages and how you can navigate them.
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- Article: The 5 Stages of Team Development.
- Article: Don’t Have a Team Operating Model? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
It is fairly common knowledge now that providing people with more autonomy can drive big improvements in motivation.
However, it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Sometimes providing your team with more autonomy is daunting and frustrating.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the common traps and what we can do to avoid them.
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- Article: Struggling to Foster Autonomy In Your Team? Here’s Why.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #215: Why Autonomy Matters For Your People and How to Provide It.
- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Article: Proactive vs Reactive Team Members: Make the Switch.
- Article: People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
Goal setting is very common in most organisations, but that doesn’t mean it’s done very well.
If you get it right it can provide a big motivational boost, but when it goes wrong it can have the opposite effect.
In this episode, I take a look at some tips to help you set more effective goals for your team.
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- Article: Setting Team Goals: Tips for Thoughtful Leaders.
- Book: 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni.
- Book: Drive by Dan Pink.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcat #165: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Article: Want a Committed Team? Check These Factors.
It’s pretty common knowledge that recognising the contributions of your team can be a useful motivational tool.
Praise is a cost-effective way to do this, but sometimes I notice it falls flat.
In this episode, I take a look at some situations where praise becomes ineffective and how you might use it better.
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- Article: Praising Employees Is Good – But Here’s Why It Isn’t Working
- Harvard Research: A Little Recognition Can Provide a Big Morale Boost.
- Article: 3 Ways That False Praise is Ruining Your Team.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Article: 10 Simple & Effective Tips For Giving Feedback.
I think organisations could function more effectively if there were a few more direct conversations.
But, as thoughtful leaders, direct conversations can be daunting, and we don’t want to have them when they’re not really needed or appropriate.
In this episode, I look at some of the factors to help you decide whether a more direct conversation is the answer for your situation.
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- Article: Should You Have a Direct Conversation? Try This Checklist.
- Article: Avoiding a Difficult Conversation? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns.
- Article: People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
Many leaders grapple with challenges that come with leading or working with people who they consider to be friends.
So that begs the question: should you be friends with your team members? Or should you try not to let that happen?
In this episode, I take a look at some of the challenges that can come from being friends with team members, and what you could potentially try to do about them.
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- Article: Should You Be Friends With Your Employees?
- Gallup Article: The Increasing Importance of a Best Friend at Work.
- Article: Avoiding Groupthink.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #132: Would You Rather Be Liked or Respected?
- Article: Why Even Good Leaders Can Show a Lack of Integrity.
I receive a lot of emails asking for advice about difficult or disruptive team members.
While all of these situations have their intricacies and quirks, I reckon that underlying them all is a simple idea.
And this simple idea is the basis for a very useful leadership question that I like to ask people when they have these sorts of issues.
You can ask it too, so listen to this episode and let me know what you think.
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- Article: People Not Doing What You Want? Ask This Leadership Question.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #149: Steps to Break Negative Behaviour Patterns.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Drive Consequences in the Workplace.
- Article: Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
Leaders often need to negotiate, even if they aren’t involved in closing high-powered deals all the time.
We might negotiate a pay rise for ourselves or with our team members, negotiate for extra resources on a project or even when buying a used car.
Whatever the negotiation situation, these 3 simple concepts will help you prepare and hopefully get a better outcome for you and the other party.
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- Article: How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
Reading about leadership can be quite confusing.
There are lots of leadership styles, theories and models out there, which can make it hard to gain a basic understanding of what it all means.
So in this episode, I go back to basics with a simple 4-step process which covers what I believe are the core parts of leadership to concentrate on.
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- Article: Overwhelmed? Follow This Simple Leadership Process.
- Article: Leadership Weaknesses: Use Them to Lead Better.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
Leadership used to be about command and control.
Over time, it has become much more inclusive and collaborative.
However, I feel that the quiet leaders among us still feel the pressure to be louder and more outgoing than they may naturally be.
In this episode, I look at the benefits of quiet leadership and offer some tips for those quiet leaders out there.
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- Article: 5 Tips For Quiet Leaders.
- Article: Introverted Leaders vs. Extroverted Leaders. Who Wins?
- Article: Brian Little – Free Traits.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #28: Why Softly Spoken Leaders Make a Big Impact.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #206: Lead Better By Understanding Your Core Values.
- Article: Why You Need to Speak Up at Work and Why You Don’t.
- Article: Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing.
Motivating team members is an ongoing challenge for leaders.
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all motivation solution because everyone is different.
In this episode, I cover three factors that you can use to try to motivate your people.
Hopefully you can use these as a guide to develop more specific strategies to help your people feel more engaged with the work that they do.
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- Article: Motivate Your People Using These 3 Levers.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Article: Job Characteristics model.
- Book: “Drive”, by Dan Pink.
- Article: 4 Ways to Provide Autonomy For Your People.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
Saying “No” is a superpower in leadership (and in life), in my opinion.
Many thoughtful leaders feel stressed at the prospect of pushing back or saying no, especially to someone like their own boss.
This episode is a little encouragement for you to start saying “No” a little more often, so you can create space for the most important work and set a positive example for the people around you.
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- Article: 4 Great Things That Happen When You Start Saying No.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #92: Struggling to Say No? Try These 5 Ways!
- Article: Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You’re Asked to Do It All.
- Article: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
Staff turnover is a natural part of life, even for excellent leaders.
Even so, it can have a big impact on the functioning of a team if we aren’t careful.
In this episode, I take a look at some ideas to help reduce the impact of turnover in your team, so that the wheels don’t fall off when someone says goodbye.
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- Article: 4 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Staff Turnover.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #33: Employee Turnover: Why It’s Good and When You Should Worry.
- Article: Process Mapping – Lucidchart.
- Article: Roles and Responsibilities Unclear? Do This.
- Article: How Leaders Can Improve Team Performance Through Cross Training.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #64: Overwhelmed? Start Working at 80%.
In many respects, it’s good to be a nice leader.
But what happens if you’re one of those leaders who is perceived as “too nice”?
In this episode, I take a look at some tips for nice leaders, to help to counter some of the common perceptions that can hold them back in the workplace.
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- Article: 4 Critical Considerations for “Nice” Leaders.
- Article: Struggling as a Kind Leader? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
- Article: Hiring People? Here Are 5 Essential Personality Traits to Watch Out For.
- Article: CNBC Interview With David Kawasaki.
- Article: Jacinda Ardern.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #83: Handling Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership.
Feeling confident in your leadership role always makes leading a whole lot easier.
So in this episode, I take a look at the four steps I believe are necessary to grow in confidence.
I share a few personal examples from my own journey in confidence-building, and hopefully you can view some of your challenges in a different light, and use these four steps to build your own confidence.
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- Article: 4 Critical Steps to Grow Your Confidence In Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #90: Beating Leadership Imposter Syndrome.
- Article: Working For An Insecure Manager? Here’s What to Do.
- Assessment Tools: DISC, PRINT, MBTI, Clifton’s Strengths or Hogan.
- Article: Why You Need to Know Your Values In Leadership.
- Article: 5 Questions Confident Leaders Ask.
- Article: Leadership Confidence Problem? Let’s Diagnose It.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #56: Why Thoughtful Leaders Need the Most Confidence.
- Online Course: Leadership Confidence Online Course. (Discount ends June 30th 2023!)
Many people are looking for a quick fix for their time management challenges, in the form of tools and technologies.
While these can be helpful for working more efficiently, nothing beats having the skills and mindset to actually set clear boundaries and become more effective.
The only thing is… it’s much harder, takes effort… and might even involve a few challenging conversations.
In this episode, I take a look at the top 3 time management skills I think will really help you become more effective.
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- Article: Forget the Tools, Master These Top 3 Time Management Skills.
- The Urgent-Important Matrix: How to Be More Productive at Work: A Simple Tool for Leaders.
- Article: How Better Time Management Will Help Your Team (Not just you!)
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #18: How to Delegate to Improve Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #105: Downsides of Delegation.
Communication skills are a hot topic in leadership, and are often one of the most sought-after skills for leaders.
However, we don’t usually dig much into what good communication means.
So in this episode, I thought I’d look into what it means (Thoughtful Leader style, that is) and how you bring it more often.
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- Article: What Good Communication Means, and How to Do It.
- LinkedIn Learning Blog: Top Skills to Future Proof Your Career.
- Article: 5 Leadership Communication Principles to Help Your Team.
- Statista: Emails Sent Per Day Stats.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #122: Suffering From a Communication Breakdown? Let’s Fix It.
- Article: 5 Communication Skills Every Leader Needs.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #35: How to Create Open Communication in Your Team.
We often talk about the actions that leaders should take to get the best out of their teams.
But it’s worth thinking about the things we choose not to do which can make a real difference.
In this episode, I take a look at why leaders sometimes struggle to restrain themselves from taking instinctive actions, and take a look at some ways you might be able to add a little restraint into your leadership.
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- Article: Why Exercising Restraint Is Important For Good Leadership.
- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Article: How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership.
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Resource: PRINT assessment.
- Resource: Live Your Values deck.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #124: How to Stay Calm In Tricky, Stressful and Uncertain Situations.
Autonomy is a key factor when it comes to team member motivation at work.
But unfortunately, it can feel daunting to let go and provide your people with the autonomy they want.
In this episode, I take a look at some simple options for providing greater autonomy to your people, without necessarily saying “Go do whatever you want!”
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- Article: 4 Ways to Provide Autonomy For Your People.
- Motivation Model: Job Characteristics model.
- Book: “Drive” by Daniel Pink.
- Article: Why Leaders Struggle to Provide Autonomy at Work.
- Article: 5 Empowering Leadership Actions to Try In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
Trust is important in leadership.
After all, it’s tiring and stressful when people are questioning our motives all the time.
But we can’t just ask people to trust us. We need to show up as being trustworthy.
Otherwise, we’re just the person who says “trust me”, with nothing to back it up.
And you don’t trust people like that, do you?
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- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #125: How to Build Trust In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #130: How to Make Your 1 to 1 Meetings Better.
- Article: The #1 Way That Leaders Damage Team Trust.
- Article: Team Improvement: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Love It.
- Article: Is a Lack of Trust Ruining Your Team? Here’s 3 Ways to Fix It.
- Article: “Trust Equation” by Trusted Advisor.
I’ve noticed that leaders in many organisations like to send people on training without too much thought.
Unfortunately, usually this results in a lot of wasted time and money, even though it may seem like a good idea at the time.
To help with this, in this episode I take a look at 3 simple questions to answer to improve the chances of the training being useful and worth the expense!
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Managing by exception is a style of management that emphasises escalation of only significant issues to leaders in an organisation.
It is often seen as a way to free up a leader’s capacity, because they are only involved when there is a challenge to be overcome or a significant decision to be made.
I’m naturally skeptical about “silver bullet” leadership approaches, so in this episode, I take a look at this style of leading, along with the benefits and potential pitfalls, so you can see how this might suit your situation.
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- Article: Managing By Exception: How Does It Impact Our People?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #48: The Perils of Passive Leadership.
- Article: 4 Signs That a Productivity Problem Might Be Hurting Your Leadership.
- Article: How to Get Comfortable Without Controlling Leadership.
- Article: McKinsey Study on Employee Satisfaction. (Note: I incorrectly referenced this as a Harvard Business Review study in the episode).
Working for an insecure manager is no picnic.
Many people react to this situation by fighting. Trying to prove to their insecure boss that they are superior and capable and don’t need to be controlled.
Unfortunately, I’ve never seen this work. It usually results in a worse situation as the feeling of insecurity grows even further!
I suggest you try the strategies in this episode instead.
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- Article: Working For An Insecure Manager? Here’s What to Do.
- Article: Moving From Doer to Leader: The Top Challenges.
- Article: Are You an Insecure Leader? Watch for These 10 Signs.
- Article: Leadership Confidence Problem? Let’s Diagnose It.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Article: How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Article: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #104: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work.
Empowering leadership is all about getting out of your team’s way, so they can do their thing.
However, this deceptively simple idea can be daunting for leaders who aren’t used to letting go of the reins so much.
In this episode, I take a look at empowering leadership, why it can be a great thing for your team, and give you some ideas of empowering actions you can take.
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- Article: 5 Empowering Leadership Actions to Try In Your Team.
- Article: Are You an Insecure Leader? Watch for These 10 Signs.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #172: Team Member Lacking Confidence? Here’s How to Lead Them.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #74: Want a More Proactive Team? Try These Things.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #112: Why Smart Leaders Seek Continuous Improvement.
- Article: 5 Questions Confident Leaders Ask.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
- Article: How a Self Fulfilling Prophecy Will Make or Break Your Team.
Being able to show empathy is a great skill for leaders to better understand and engage with their people.
One tool I’ve found really useful in helping to keep an open mind and show empathy is the iceberg model.
In this episode, I introduce this simple model and how you can use it to think differently about the various behaviours you might be seeing in your workplace.
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- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Article: Empathy from UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Magazine.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Can Build Empathy in the Workplace (and Why It Matters).
- Article: How to Manage Your Emotions For Better Leadership.
One of the common complaints levelled at leaders (especially in the middle-management layer) is that they are “useless” and “don’t do anything”.
And sometimes, when you’ve gone from being a valuable “doer” to a leader, it can certainly feel that way!
In this episode, I take a look at some ways to help yourself (and your team) feel like you’re making a positive difference in your leadership role.
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- Article: 4 Ways to Be a More Useful Leader.
- Article: Why is Leadership Important? Here’s a Reminder.
- Article: The Power of Setting a Direction For Your Team.
- Article: Don’t Have a Clear Team Purpose? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: Don’t Have a Team Operating Model? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader.
- Article: How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
- Article: Are you a Micromanaging Boss? Here’s How to Break the Habit.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #112: Why Smart Leaders Seek Continuous Improvement.
In the book “Legacy” about the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby team, the concept of “sweeping the sheds” is raised.
That is – even leaders should pitch in and do the small things, rather than considering them to be beneath their station.
So is sweeping the sheds good leadership? When should you do it, and when should you avoid it?
I discuss these questions in this podcast episode.
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- Article: Too Important For That Task? Is It Good or Bad Leadership?
- Book: “Legacy”
- Article: Are You Taking Yourself Too Seriously?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities.
- Article: Don’t Have a Team Operating Model? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: How to Create a Clear Team Purpose.
- Article: 5 Strategic Skills to Improve Your Leadership.
One way that we can help to set a good foundation for our leadership is to understand our core values.
Our core values help us to understand what drives us, what we stand for and what we won’t. They can also help us to identify the situations and environments where we are more likely to feel satisfied, content and motivated.
In this episode, I take a look at why our values are so important, what we can use them for and how to figure out what yours are.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy – a Leadership Perspective
Show Links:
- Article: Why You Need to Know Your Values In Leadership.
- Article: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #153: Why Knowing Yourself Equals Better Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #76: Why Leaders Should Focus On Workplace Wellbeing.
- Article: How Leaders Can Build Strong Working Relationships.
- Product: Live Your Values Deck.
- Lists of Values: James Clear and Brene Brown.
You might not feel confident all the time, but that doesn’t mean you can’t ask confident questions!
In this episode, I take a look at some good questions that you can ask to help build trust and rapport with the people around you.
Many leaders don’t ask these questions, because they don’t want to hear the answers.
Don’t be like them – ask away!
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Show Links:
- Article: 5 Questions Confident Leaders Ask.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #90: Beating Leadership Imposter Syndrome.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #125: How to Build Trust In Your Team.
- Article – Entrepreneur: A Lack of Confidence Is a Surprising Trait of Successful Leaders.
Most leaders have parts of their leadership they’d like to improve.
One way to improve is to create good leadership habits, to help you show up consistently and reliably for your team.
In this episode, I take a look at 3 key ingredients I believe are important for making a change to your leadership habits.
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Show Links:
- Article: Create Positive Leadership Habits With These 3 Ingredients.
- Article: James Clear – Creating a new habit
- Tool: RescueTime
- Article: Are You a Consistent Leader, Or Keeping Your Team Guessing?
I sometimes work with leaders who pretty much need a complete confidence rebuild because of their experiences in crappy workplaces.
Damaged confidence can take years to recover (if it does at all), so we need to be able to guard against this problem.
Over time, I’ve come to realise that self-acceptance is a big piece of the puzzle, and I think it plays a foundational role in our leadership.
In this episode, I take a look at why it matters, and some ways to help you find it.
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Show Links:
- Article: Why Self Acceptance is a Foundation for Good Leadership.
- Article: Why Leaders Need to Build Self Esteem.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #164: Don’t Let Blind Spots Derail Your Leadership.
- Article: Self-talk: What is it and why is it important – Healthdirect.
- Article: How Daily Commitments Can Improve Your Leadership.
- Article: Psychology Today – One tool that can change the way you think.
- Article: Tim Denning – Neuroplasticity changed changed the way I think.
It seems to be fairly common knowledge that delegation is a valuable leadership skill.
But in my experience coaching and talking to my training attendees, there is not enough of it happening in our workplaces.
Many leaders want to be able to delegate more, but there are things getting in the way that seem to prevent it.
So in this episode, I take a look at some of the common reasons why leaders fail to delegate, and some potential solutions to that problem!
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Show Links:
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate (and How to Do It More).
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #105: Downsides of Delegation.
- Article: How Letting Go Will Help You Take Control.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #31: Short Term Thinking = Bad Leadership.
- Article: How a Self Fulfilling Prophecy Will Make or Break Your Team.
- Article: Why Exercising Restraint Is Important For Good Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities.
- Article: Balancing the Four Essential Leadership Components.
- Article: Moving From Doer to Leader: The Top Challenges.
Recent research shows that honesty is one of the most highly sought-after leadership characteristics.
However, there are many situations in which we sometimes feel like we can’t be as honest as we’d like to be.
So in this episode, I take a look at some of the ways you can bring honesty to the table more often, because it’s what people are looking for in their leaders!
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Show Links:
- Article: Honest Leadership: How to Bring It More Often (and Why It Matters).
- Book: Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #175: Avoiding Conflict? Here’s What’s Really Happening.
- Study: Brain battles itself over short-term rewards, long-term goals.
- Article: How Short Term Thinking Leads to Bad Leadership.
- Link: Philosopher and Neuroscientist Sam Harris.
Workplaces can often be busy and overwhelming places, convincing us that our situation is all doom and gloom. People like to focus on negativity and this can make the situation even worse!
Instead, wouldn’t it be nice to feel more positive about your work situation?
In this episode, I look at 3 factors that help leaders feel more positive at work, based on the trends that I notice speaking with my coaching clients.
You’ll still have challenges and tricky problems to solve, but hopefully you can approach them with greater enthusiasm and positive energy!
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Show Links:
- Article: How Leaders Can Feel More Positive at Work.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #140: Are You Being Too Optimistic?
- Article: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
It’s time to get started with 2023!
In this episode, I take a look at my 5 key leadership focus areas which I think are important.
These include being aware of global trends (and matching them in your team), watching out for poor time management, being a leadership scientist, cultivating a curious mindset and being able to restrain ourselves in the face of our tricky emotions!
Listen to the episode to find out more about them!
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Show Links:
- Article: Want to Build Empathy? Use the Iceberg Model.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Podcast: #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Article: Improve Motivation In Your Team With This Simple Theory.
Most leaders don’t go straight into a leadership position. They start by doing the technical work, and then progress to leadership positions afterwards when they show the potential.
This transition can be a huge challenge for many leaders, especially those who actually quite liked doing the technical work!
In this episode, I take a look at some of the top challenges of moving from doer to leader, and some ways you can hopefully overcome these to be as good a leader as you were a team member.
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Show Links: * Article: Moving From Doer to Leader: The Top Challenges. * Article: How Much Technical Expertise Should You Have to Lead Your Team? * Article: Leading Former Colleagues Can Be Tricky. Try These Tips.
Strategic Thinking
- Article: 5 Strategic Skills to Improve Your Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #81: The Power of Setting a Direction for Your Team (and how to do it).
- Article: Team Improvement: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Love It.
- Article: Don’t Have a Team Operating Model? Here’s Why You Need One.
Motivation & Difficult Conversations
- Article: Avoiding a Difficult Conversation? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
- Article: 5 Questions to Ask An Unmotivated Team Member.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
Delegation
- Article: The Downsides of the Delegating Leadership Style.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate Tasks (and How to Fix It).
- Article: Are you a Micromanaging Boss? Here’s How to Break the Habit.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #21: Micromanagement and How to Stop It.
Stress is common in busy workplaces, and we might think that it usually occurs because the workload is too high.
However, there can be many sources of stress that don’t necessarily involve the amount of work on our plate.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the common signs of stress that you might see, and then look at the common causes that may be behind them.
If you can remain aware of the signs and causes, you might be able to stop them becoming an issue for you and your team!
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Show Links:
- Article: How Leaders Can Identify Mental Health Issues.
- Article: Is Your Team Struggling? Understand Workplace Stress to Lead Better.
- Article: Roles and Responsibilities Unclear? Do This.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #55: The Importance of Consequences for an Effective Workplace.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #121: Difficult Colleague? Let’s Improve the Relationship.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
- Article: How Leaders Can Survive “Working In the Grey”.
- Article: 5 Questions to Ask An Unmotivated Team Member.
When leaders do bad things in your workplace, do you assume they are bad, evil people?
Or could it be that in a different environment, they’d lead in a better way?
In this episode I take a look at some of the integrity risks that I find can have even good leaders doing bad leadership things.
Watch out for them, to be able to lead better, more often.
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Show Links:
- Article: Why Even Good Leaders Can Show a Lack of Integrity.
- Article: Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
- Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It’s Crucial.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #123: Common Leadership Fears and How to Challenge Them.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
- Article: Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You’re Asked to Do It All
- Article: Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
There are still some common misconceptions about leadership floating around in our organisations.
Leadership has changed. Gone are the days of command and control and the days of more inclusive leadership are upon us.
However, many workplaces are still battling “old-school” leadership challenges.
In this episode, I take a look at some common leadership misconceptions that I feel still have a tendency to trip us up!
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Show Links:
- Article: 5 Leadership Misconceptions We Need to Correct.
- Article: How Much Technical Expertise Should You Have to Lead Your Team?
- Article: What is an introvert? – Healthline.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #28: Why Softly Spoken Leaders Make a Big Impact.
- Podcast: Brene Brown – Anatomy of Trust.
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: Why Formal Authority Won’t Solve Your Leadership Problems.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
The world is full of top 10 leadership characteristics lists which we should all aspire to.
In this episode, I wanted to do something a little different, so here are four characteristics that I think are overrated in leadership.
I still see these attributes celebrated in many organisations even when the senior leaders say they don’t endorse them!
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- Article: 4 Overrated Leadership Attributes That We Can Stop Admiring.
- Article: 5 Leadership Traits That Help to Motivate Teams.
- Article: What is Charisma? From Skillsyouneed.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
The world is full of top 10 leadership characteristics lists which we should all aspire to.
In this episode, I wanted to do something a little different, so here are four characteristics that I think are overrated in leadership.
I still see these attributes celebrated in many organisations even when the senior leaders say they don’t endorse them!
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- Article: 4 Overrated Leadership Attributes That We Can Stop Admiring.
- Article: 5 Leadership Traits That Help to Motivate Teams.
- Article: What is Charisma? From Skillsyouneed.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #156: Let’s Dismantle the Cult of Busyness.
Good time management won’t necessarily make you a great leader, but I consider it to be a key enabler in being able to lead effectively.
A frazzled, disorganised leader will often appear unreliable, untrustworthy and will struggle to focus their attention on the people who need it most (their people).
In this episode, I take a look at four key areas to focus on for better time management.
If you get these right, you’re on the way to being much more effective… and the results will follow!
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Show Links:
- Article: To Manage Your Time Better, Focus On These Areas.
- Article: “I Don’t Have Time”: Taking Back Control of Your Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #8: Struggling at Work? Improve Your Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Article: 5 Leadership Communication Principles to Help Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #170: Shift Your Mindset to Improve Your Productivity.
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
Good time management won’t necessarily make you a great leader, but I consider it to be a key enabler in being able to lead effectively.
A frazzled, disorganised leader will often appear unreliable, untrustworthy and will struggle to focus their attention on the people who need it most (their people).
In this episode, I take a look at four key areas to focus on for better time management.
If you get these right, you’re on the way to being much more effective… and the results will follow!
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Show Links:
- Article: To Manage Your Time Better, Focus On These Areas.
- Article: “I Don’t Have Time”: Taking Back Control of Your Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #8: Struggling at Work? Improve Your Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Article: 5 Leadership Communication Principles to Help Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #170: Shift Your Mindset to Improve Your Productivity.
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
Thoughtful leaders never set out to become the bottleneck or “single point of failure” in their teams.
Unfortunately, it still happens for a bunch of reasons.
In this episode, I take a look at why leaders might fall into the bottleneck trap and of course, how you can take steps to stop becoming a bottleneck in your team!
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- Article: How to Stop Being a Bottleneck In Your Team.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
- Article: Are You Holding Yourself Back? Spot the Signs.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Article: How Being a Perfectionist Leader is Killing Your Leadership.
- Article: The Downsides of the Delegating Leadership Style.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate Tasks (and How to Fix It).
- Article: Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader.
Thoughtful leaders never set out to become the bottleneck or “single point of failure” in their teams.
Unfortunately, it still happens for a bunch of reasons.
In this episode, I take a look at why leaders might fall into the bottleneck trap and of course, how you can take steps to stop becoming a bottleneck in your team!
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- Article: How to Stop Being a Bottleneck In Your Team.
- Article: 4 Types of Motivation to Look For In Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
- Article: Are You Holding Yourself Back? Spot the Signs.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Article: How Being a Perfectionist Leader is Killing Your Leadership.
- Article: The Downsides of the Delegating Leadership Style.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate Tasks (and How to Fix It).
- Article: Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader.
When I notice team members watching the clock waiting for the time when they can go home, I know it’s a problem.
It’s not that I want people to be working longer and harder than they need to.
But ideally, we want people to enjoy what they do and feel motivated to achieve it, to the point that they feel accountable and take more ownership.
This might mean working longer to finish something important one day, and leaving earlier the next. After all, it should be about outcomes, not hours.
In this episode, I look at some of the common reasons for clock watching, and some ideas to help you solve it.
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- Article: How to Solve Clock Watching at Work.
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #29: 5 Questions to Ask an Unmotivated Team Member.
- Article: Leading High Performers? Try These Strategies.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: Can’t Hold People Accountable? Here’s Why.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #167: People Unfulfilled at Work? Try These Ideas.
When I notice team members watching the clock waiting for the time when they can go home, I know it’s a problem.
It’s not that I want people to be working longer and harder than they need to.
But ideally, we want people to enjoy what they do and feel motivated to achieve it, to the point that they feel accountable and take more ownership.
This might mean working longer to finish something important one day, and leaving earlier the next. After all, it should be about outcomes, not hours.
In this episode, I look at some of the common reasons for clock watching, and some ideas to help you solve it.
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- Article: How to Solve Clock Watching at Work.
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #29: 5 Questions to Ask an Unmotivated Team Member.
- Article: Leading High Performers? Try These Strategies.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: Can’t Hold People Accountable? Here’s Why.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #167: People Unfulfilled at Work? Try These Ideas.
Reliable leaders have a tendency to build trust easily, because people know what to expect from them.
It’s easy to say “just do what you say you’re going to do” to get someone to be more reliable, but it’s not always so easy to make it happen.
In this episode, I’m going to look at some simple ways to show up more reliably at work, so you can hopefully put them into practice.
As always, it’s not rocket science… it just needs a little focus!
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- Article: 3 Ways to Be a More Reliable Leader.
- Article: Are You a Consistent Leader, Or Keeping Your Team Guessing?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired
- Course: Time Management For Leaders Online Course
- eBook: The Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Article: 5 Simple Steps to Communicate Effectively.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #140: Are You Being Too Optimistic?
Reliable leaders have a tendency to build trust easily, because people know what to expect from them.
It’s easy to say “just do what you say you’re going to do” to get someone to be more reliable, but it’s not always so easy to make it happen.
In this episode, I’m going to look at some simple ways to show up more reliably at work, so you can hopefully put them into practice.
As always, it’s not rocket science… it just needs a little focus!
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- Identify blockers and limiting beliefs that are holding you back; and
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Show Links:
- Article: 3 Ways to Be a More Reliable Leader.
- Article: Are You a Consistent Leader, Or Keeping Your Team Guessing?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired
- Course: Time Management For Leaders Online Course
- eBook: The Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Article: 5 Simple Steps to Communicate Effectively.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #140: Are You Being Too Optimistic?
Since I started coaching thoughtful leaders, I’ve noticed a few focus areas that we spend most of our time working on.
I’ve found that thoughtful leaders are often great people-people, but this can have it’s challenges too!
In this episode, I take a look at the common areas of leadership improvement that I think many thoughtful leaders could benefit from.
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- Article: 4 Leadership Improvement Areas for Thoughtful Leaders.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No“.
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
- Article: Can’t Hold People Accountable? Here’s Why.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #18: How to Delegate to Improve Your Team
- Article: Too Important For That Task? Is It Good or Bad Leadership?
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate Tasks (and How to Fix It).
- Article: Wellbeing at Work: How Leaders Can Support It.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #76: Don’t Wait for a Crisis – Why Leaders Should Focus On Workplace Wellbeing.
- Article: Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #169: Why Leaders Need to Prioritise Their Mental Health.
- Article: Is It Worth It? Here’s How to Decide.
- Huberman Lab Podcast: https://hubermanlab.com/
Since I started coaching thoughtful leaders, I’ve noticed a few focus areas that we spend most of our time working on.
I’ve found that thoughtful leaders are often great people-people, but this can have it’s challenges too!
In this episode, I take a look at the common areas of leadership improvement that I think many thoughtful leaders could benefit from.
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Show Links:
- Article: 4 Leadership Improvement Areas for Thoughtful Leaders.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No“.
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
- Article: Can’t Hold People Accountable? Here’s Why.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #18: How to Delegate to Improve Your Team
- Article: Too Important For That Task? Is It Good or Bad Leadership?
- Article: Why Leaders Don’t Delegate Tasks (and How to Fix It).
- Article: Wellbeing at Work: How Leaders Can Support It.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #76: Don’t Wait for a Crisis – Why Leaders Should Focus On Workplace Wellbeing.
- Article: Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #169: Why Leaders Need to Prioritise Their Mental Health.
- Article: Is It Worth It? Here’s How to Decide.
- Huberman Lab Podcast: https://hubermanlab.com/
I work with lots of leaders who wish their team members would show a little more motivation and commitment.
And recently I’ve also seen a lot of articles about “quiet quitting”, where people are effectively doing the bare minimum at work, or simply tuning out.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the factors to check to see if you can build commitment in your team.
You can’t make your people commit, but you can do your best to create an environment where people are more likely to feel committed.
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- Identify blockers and limiting beliefs that are holding you back; and
- Develop key actions you can take to move forward and make progress.
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Show Links:
- Article: Want a Committed Team? Check These Factors.
- Article: 3 Ingredients For a Great Team Culture.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #29: 5 Questions to Ask an Unmotivated Team Member.
- Article: Don’t Have a Clear Team Purpose? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: The Importance of Planning and Why Leaders Can’t Ignore It.
- Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #84: How to Give Your Team More Meaningful Work.
I work with lots of leaders who wish their team members would show a little more motivation and commitment.
And recently I’ve also seen a lot of articles about “quiet quitting”, where people are effectively doing the bare minimum at work, or simply tuning out.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the factors to check to see if you can build commitment in your team.
You can’t make your people commit, but you can do your best to create an environment where people are more likely to feel committed.
Apply For Your Complimentary Coaching Session I invite you to a complimentary Discovery Coaching Session, where we will:
- Get clear on your most important goals and what is most important to you
- Identify blockers and limiting beliefs that are holding you back; and
- Develop key actions you can take to move forward and make progress.
You will leave the Discovery Coaching Session with a sense of clarity, purpose and practical steps to move you forward.
There is no obligation to pursue further coaching after this session - but many people do!
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Show Links:
- Article: Want a Committed Team? Check These Factors.
- Article: 3 Ingredients For a Great Team Culture.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #29: 5 Questions to Ask an Unmotivated Team Member.
- Article: Don’t Have a Clear Team Purpose? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: The Importance of Planning and Why Leaders Can’t Ignore It.
- Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #84: How to Give Your Team More Meaningful Work.
Most leaders love high performers.
However, there is a bit of a misconception that leading high performers can be easier.
While in some ways this might be true, there are a few things you need to keep an eye on to make sure you can keep getting the best out of them – and have them wanting to remain in your team!
In this episode, I look at some of the challenging parts of leading high performers and some strategies to keep in mind to keep them motivated and satisfied.
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- Article: Leading High Performers? Try These Strategies.
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Article: Are You an Insecure Leader? Watch for These 10 Signs.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #151: Low on Confidence? Let’s Tackle the Root Cause.
- Article: Are Your People Feeling Unfulfilled at Work? Try This.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Daniel Pink on Motivation: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/autonomy-mastery-purpose.htm
Most leaders love high performers.
However, there is a bit of a misconception that leading high performers can be easier.
While in some ways this might be true, there are a few things you need to keep an eye on to make sure you can keep getting the best out of them – and have them wanting to remain in your team!
In this episode, I look at some of the challenging parts of leading high performers and some strategies to keep in mind to keep them motivated and satisfied.
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- Article: Leading High Performers? Try These Strategies.
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Article: Are You an Insecure Leader? Watch for These 10 Signs.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #151: Low on Confidence? Let’s Tackle the Root Cause.
- Article: Are Your People Feeling Unfulfilled at Work? Try This.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Daniel Pink on Motivation: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/autonomy-mastery-purpose.htm
If we follow our instincts all the time when leading people, we’re likely to run into trouble at some point.
The problem is that we’re wired to protect ourselves, and we can be consumed with the “fight or flight” response that can cloud our judgement.
While this response has helped us survive and thrive over many thousands of years, in the modern workplace it can hold us back.
In this episode, I look at some leadership situations where doing the opposite of what your natural instincts tell you might be exactly what you need to do!
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- Article: Want to Lead Better? Try Doing the Opposite.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #50: Are You Avoiding a Difficult Conversation?
- Article: Difficult Colleague? Let’s Improve the Work Relationship.
- Article: 3 Helpful Leadership Actions That Are Hurting Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #92: Struggling to Say No? Try These 5 Ways!
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: How Daily Commitments Can Improve Your Leadership.
If we follow our instincts all the time when leading people, we’re likely to run into trouble at some point.
The problem is that we’re wired to protect ourselves, and we can be consumed with the “fight or flight” response that can cloud our judgement.
While this response has helped us survive and thrive over many thousands of years, in the modern workplace it can hold us back.
In this episode, I look at some leadership situations where doing the opposite of what your natural instincts tell you might be exactly what you need to do!
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Show Links:
- Article: Want to Lead Better? Try Doing the Opposite.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #50: Are You Avoiding a Difficult Conversation?
- Article: Difficult Colleague? Let’s Improve the Work Relationship.
- Article: 3 Helpful Leadership Actions That Are Hurting Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #92: Struggling to Say No? Try These 5 Ways!
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: How Daily Commitments Can Improve Your Leadership.
Who wants to work in a chaotic work environment?
Most people would answer… “of course, nobody does!”
However, working in a chaotic work environment can sometimes actually be easier!
In this episode, I look at a few ways that a chaotic work environment is hurting your team and your leadership, and of course some ways that you can bring some structure to the situation.
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- Article: How a Chaotic Work Environment Is Hurting Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: Is Passive Leadership Destroying Your Team’s Motivation?
- Article: Taking On Too Much? Here’s Why.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”.
- eBook: Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
Who wants to work in a chaotic work environment?
Most people would answer… “of course, nobody does!”
However, working in a chaotic work environment can sometimes actually be easier!
In this episode, I look at a few ways that a chaotic work environment is hurting your team and your leadership, and of course some ways that you can bring some structure to the situation.
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There is no obligation to pursue further coaching after this session - but many people do!
>>> Click here to apply for your complimentary coaching session.
Show Links:
- Article: How a Chaotic Work Environment Is Hurting Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #161: How to Improve Accountability In Your Team.
- Article: Is Passive Leadership Destroying Your Team’s Motivation?
- Article: Taking On Too Much? Here’s Why.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Push Back and Say “No”.
- eBook: Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
When leaders feel like they don’t have autonomy to make the decisions or take actions they need to, bad things can happen.
That’s why it’s so important to have freedom when it comes to your leadership role.
However, it’s not easy – you often need to navigate many stakeholders to achieve what you need to.
In this episode, I take a look at some ways to take back your leadership freedom!
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Show Links:
- Article: Want Leadership Freedom? Focus on These Relationships.
- Article: Struggling at Work? Try Building a Better Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #48: The Perils of Passive Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #43: Is a Fear of Leaving Your Job Making You a Worse Leader?
When leaders feel like they don’t have autonomy to make the decisions or take actions they need to, bad things can happen.
That’s why it’s so important to have freedom when it comes to your leadership role.
However, it’s not easy – you often need to navigate many stakeholders to achieve what you need to.
In this episode, I take a look at some ways to take back your leadership freedom!
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Show Links:
- Article: Want Leadership Freedom? Focus on These Relationships.
- Article: Struggling at Work? Try Building a Better Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #48: The Perils of Passive Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #43: Is a Fear of Leaving Your Job Making You a Worse Leader?
Many people think that the boss is the most powerful person in a team.
While the boss certainly does have power, they probably aren’t the only one!
Sometimes power can come from different sources, not just your formal job title or position.
In this episode, I take a look at several sources of power that can impact teams, and some actions you can take if you think a power imbalance is impacting team performance.
Apply For Your Complimentary Coaching Session I invite you to a complimentary Discovery Coaching Session, where we will:
- Get clear on your most important goals and what is most important to you
- Identify blockers and limiting beliefs that are holding you back; and
- Develop key actions you can take to move forward and make progress.
You will leave the Discovery Coaching Session with a sense of clarity, purpose and practical steps to move you forward.
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- Article: Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #62: Why Having Authority Won’t Solve Your Leadership Problems.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #109: Stakeholder Management Tips to Make Your Leadership Life Easier.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
Many people think that the boss is the most powerful person in a team.
While the boss certainly does have power, they probably aren’t the only one!
Sometimes power can come from different sources, not just your formal job title or position.
In this episode, I take a look at several sources of power that can impact teams, and some actions you can take if you think a power imbalance is impacting team performance.
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Show Links:
- Article: Power Dynamics: Are They Impacting Your Team?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #62: Why Having Authority Won’t Solve Your Leadership Problems.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #109: Stakeholder Management Tips to Make Your Leadership Life Easier.
- Article: Start Being Trustworthy For Your Team: Here’s How.
It’s nice to be a helpful leader, rather than being an obstacle or causing your team to do more work “managing” you.
However, all that helpfulness can go too far if we’re not careful.
Many good people leaders are motivated by supporting their people, so it’s easy to fall into the helpfulness trap.
In this episode, I take a look at three seemingly helpful actions that may actually be hurting your team.
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Show Links:
- Learn more about Project Coaching here.
- Article: 3 Helpful Leadership Actions That Are Hurting Your Team.
- Article: Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You’re Asked to Do It All.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #74: Want a More Proactive Team? Try These Things.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #89: Ways You Might Be Reducing Accountability in Your Team.
- Article: Dangers of the “Open Door Policy” (and How to Avoid Them).
It’s common for leaders to be faced with tough situations such as ethical dilemmas or conflicts, where they need to decide whether it’s worth fighting… or perhaps not worth the trouble.
In this episode, I look at 6 good questions to ask yourself if you’re trying to work out whether it’s worth fighting that battle, or letting it go instead.
There is never a perfect answer to this question, but hopefully this episode will help you to gain some clarity about what you should do when faced with your next tough situation.
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Show Links:
- Article: Is It Worth It? Here’s How to Decide.
- Article: Making Difficult Decisions: Essential Steps for Leaders.
- Book: The Dip, by Seth Godin.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #144: Is It Time to Start Putting Yourself First?
Even the best of us make mistakes, and our team members will too!
In this episode, I answer a reader question about what to do when your team member messes up.
It’s a common challenge, because we want to encourage our people to be proactive and build their confidence without feeling scared of failing… and at the same time, we don’t want the organisation to fall apart!
Listen to this episode for some ideas on how to approach this situation.
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Leading former colleagues can be tricky, because you used to be one of the gang and now you’re the boss!
This can be awkward for some people and can put you in a difficult position.
However, you shouldn’t refuse a good leadership opportunity just because of some potential discomfort.
In this episode, I take a look at some tips for leading former colleagues, so you can feel more comfortable taking on the role… and so can the people you’re leading!
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- Article: Leading Former Colleagues Can Be Tricky. Try These Tips.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #104: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work.
- Article: Build A Better Leadership Mindset In 6 Simple Ways.
The “Open Door Policy” came about from the days where we actually had offices and doors.
However, it’s still a valuable concept today, to promote free-flowing communication between a leader and their people.
It’s not all roses though, there are some pitfalls that can occur if we aren’t careful.
In this episode, I take a look at some of the challenges that can occur with this approach and how you can overcome them.
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Show Links:
- Article: Dangers of the “Open Door Policy” (and How to Avoid Them)
- Article: Why Building Trust Is Better Than Authority.
- Article: How to Build Psychological Safety at Work.
- Article: Got a Needy Employee? Try These Strategies!
- Podcast: How to Make Your 1 to 1 Meetings Better.
In this episode, I interview Richard Gibson, a breathwork and meditation coach based in Perth, Western Australia.
Originally from the UK, Richard has been a student of breathwork since 1998, when he travelled to India to learn the Sudarshan Kriya breathwork practice with the Art of Living Foundation. Supporting his sister in law, Julie in her search for a cure for terminal cancer.
Doctors in the UK said 3 months was the maximum time left …15 years later Julie was communicating the benefits of breathwork to cancer sufferers in Christies Hospital, Manchester.
A qualified instructor of breathwork for the last 5 years, Richard has travelled across the world teaching breathwork to individuals, groups, businesses and sports teams.
Show Links:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richard.gibson8
- Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@richard.gibson8
- Mind garden youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj4gI-S2DN79HhQRLYa6vEw
- Mind garden app: https://mindgardenios.onelink.me/T7Wq/nllqzonb
Breathwork Demonstration Videos:
- Richard Breathwork Prep.mp4
- Richard Breathwork 1.mp4
- Richard Breathwork 2.mp4
- Richard Breathwork 3.mp4
- Richard Breathwork 4.mp4
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Like it or not, leaders are role-models in the workplace.
What we say and do matters, so it’s important to try to set the right example.
In this episode, I look at some common phrases that can really cause some damage in our teams and workplaces!
If you’ve said some of them yourself, don’t worry (I have too!)
It’s not about beating ourselves up… it’s about doing better next time!
Show Links:
- The Thoughtful Leader Membership is now open! Click here to learn more and enrol.
- Article: 7 Things Leaders Should Stop Saying.
- Article: Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #22: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy & Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #9: Leadership Weaknesses.
Avoiding conflict often feels good in the short-term.
But over time, avoiding conflict can cause bigger issues, that may have been more easily tackled earlier on!
In this episode, I take a deeper look at conflict avoidance, and what consequences it might be having that you may not have thought about.
There is also a handy conflict avoidance questionnaire to help you decide whether to engage, or let this one go!
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- Article: Avoiding Conflict? Here’s What You’re Really Doing.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #50: Are You Avoiding a Difficult Conversation?
- Thoughtful Leader Membership – learn more and register for the early-bird pricing here.
Ever had tasks on your list that continue to stare at you week after week, while you keep putting them off?
Procrastination is a common problem, even for leaders.
But the problem is, leaders are meant to be leading and moving forward, not standing still!
In this episode, I take a look at some common causes of procrastination and what we can do about them.
Show Links:
- Article: Overcoming Procrastination In Your Leadership.
- Book: “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.
- Thoughtful Leader Membership – apply for the early-bird pricing today!
Ever found yourself stuck in an "all or nothing" mindset?
Where everything is black or white, always or never?
We can get stuck in this type of thinking in tough environments and it can really hold us back.
In this episode, I take a look at this way of thinking and how we might be able to put a stop to it.
Show Links:
- Learn more about the Thoughtful Leader Membership here.
- Article: All or Nothing Thinking: How Is It Impacting Your Leadership?
- Article: Build A Better Leadership Mindset In 6 Simple Ways.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #113: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mindset?
- Huberman Lab Podcast: The Science of Gratitude and How to Build a Gratitude Practice.
- Meditation and Mindfulness: Meditation for Beginners.
Ever had to lead a team member who is lacking in confidence? It can be a daunting experience for some leaders, and for others it may seem like a burden or nuisance.
However, leading a nervous team member can be an excellent way to build trust and help them realise that even if they might have had a bad boss in the past, it doesn’t always need to be that way!
In this episode I take a look at some simple tips for leading team members who may be lacking confidence, as well as some of the challenges you might face when doing so.
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Show Links:
- Article: Leading a Nervous Employee? Here’s What to Do.
- Membership: Click here to learn more about the Thoughtful Leader Membership and sign up for the earlybird pricing!
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #101: Is Your Team Feeling Safe or Scared?
- Article: Why Building Trust Is Better Than Authority.
- Article: Are You a Consistent Leader, Or Keeping Your Team Guessing?
- Coaching: Apply for your complimentary coaching session here.
Leaders who inspire confidence in others have it easier.
People tend to listen to what they say and leave them to do their work.
Want to be one of those leaders?
In this episode, I look at 3 simple ways to show people that you’ve got this leadership thing sorted.
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Show Links:
- Article: 3 Simple Actions That Will Inspire Confidence In Your Leadership.
- Article: The #1 Way That Leaders Damage Team Trust.
- Article: Struggling at Work? Try Building a Better Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #22: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy & Leadership.
- Article: The Importance of Planning and Why Leaders Can’t Ignore It.
- Article: Following Orders When You Don’t Believe In the Direction.
Being effective and productive are important for good leadership.
We want to be focusing on the right things and doing them well, rather than rushing around stressed and constantly busy.
I’ve found that mindset is one of the most important factors in being productive and effective. In this episode, I take a look at some of the mindset shifts that can help you to remain focused and stop you from falling into the rut of just being busy.
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- Thoughtful Leader Membership: Register for the early-bird pricing here.
- Article: How to Shift Your Mindset to Improve Productivity.
- Article: Why Good Mental Health is a Leader’s Best Friend.
- Article: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #13: Too Busy to Lead Effectively.
- Article: Struggling at Work? Try Building a Better Working Relationship With Your Boss.
- Article: How Leaders Can Build Strong Working Relationships.
- Article: Multi-tasking and productivity.
Acknowledgement of the importance of mental health has grown steadily over the past few years.
In years past, we mainly used to focus on physical health and safety, with people often being expected to “toughen up” or “be more resilient” when placed under pressure and stress.
In this episode, I take a look at why leaders need to prioritise their mental health and wellbeing, and some simple steps you can take to help safeguard your mental health.
I’m not a medical professional, so I’m sharing some simple ideas about what has worked for me in my career, If you are struggling with mental health issues, then be sure to seek professional assistance.
Show Links
- Join the Thoughtful Leader Membership – it opens soon and you can claim your discount for being an early bird member! Click here to learn more and register for the discount.
- Article: Why Good Mental Health is a Leader’s Best Friend.
- Article: Why Being Resilient Will Kill You.
- Mental Health Resources:
- https://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/workplace-wellness
- https://workplacementalhealth.org/
- https://www.headsup.org.au/your-mental-health/mental-health-conditions
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Can Build Empathy in the Workplace (and Why It Matters).
- Coaching: Interested in a complimentary coaching session? Click here to apply.
Leaders love to have engaged, enthusiastic employees working for them, but it’s not always easy to make it happen.
In this episode, I recount a short story of a time when I had some success in helping a team member feel more engaged in the work they were doing.
I break it down into three main steps that made the difference, with the hope that you may be able to replicate some of them for yourself.
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- Article: 3 Steps Towards Employee Engagement: A Success Story.
- Article: How Leaders Can Support Team Motivation: A Simple Model.
With the rise of remote and flexible working, people are becoming more open to the idea of actually enjoying their work.
Instead of just going through the daily grind, people actually want to like what they do!
As leaders, we play an important role in helping our people feel more fulfilled.
It’s up to them to decide where they want to go, but we can help them get there!
In this episode, I take a look at some ideas to help your people feel more motivated and fulfilled at work.
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Show Links:
- Article: Are Your People Feeling Unfulfilled at Work? Try This.
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #71: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Article: Coaching Employees? Try These Tips.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #66: How to Feel In Control Without Being a Controlling Boss.
In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Mark Altman, who is the founder of MindsetGo, a company that helps people become more confident and effective communicators.
Mark reached out to me a few months back and since then, we’ve been catching up to speak about leadership, training and all sorts of other topics and to bounce ideas off each other.
In our conversation we speak about the importance of mindset, the impact of showing appreciation to others and some tips on starting to break those bad leadership habits you might have got yourself into!
Mark Altman Bio In 2015, Mark Altman, started MindsetGo to help people become more confident and effective communicators.
Mark has over two decades of experience speaking and training on interpersonal disciplines including organizational development, leadership, sales enablement, communication, emotional intelligence, and generational engagement.
Prior to MindsetGo, he founded Mark Altman & Associates (MA&A) in 2001. He grew and transformed his vision into a business which was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the nation in 2010 and 2011.
Mark sold the company and shortly thereafter, became a private investor and member of Launchpad Investment Group in Boston.
His podcast ICommunicate focuses on communication, emotional intelligence, and motivation challenges in leadership, sales, and company culture. Mark is a native of Boston and enjoys spending time with his three active children.
For the last 20 years, he has also been a passionate youth sports coach and a freelance sports reporter for the Associated Press (AP) covering home games for the Boston Red Sox, Celtics and Bruins.
Show Links:
- Learn more about Mark and MindsetGo: https://www.mindsetgo.com/
Development opportunities are one of the best ways to stop your team from stagnating, ensuring everyone keeps learning and staying motivated. However, it’s not always easy to provide development opportunities.
In this episode, I look at some of the risks in providing development opportunities, and some steps to take to enable your people to safely step outside of their comfort zone.
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Show Links:
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Article: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #22 – Self-Fulfilling Prophecy & Leadership.
Blind spots are dangerous for leaders.
It might be that you think people are perceiving you in one way, but actually they think something else about you entirely.
Or perhaps you aren’t aware of your shortcomings, when other people can see them as plain as day.
Whatever the case, ideally we want to reduce our blind spots so we don’t run into unexpected trouble.
In this episode, I look at a useful model of self-awareness as well as some ways to try to reduce your blind spots, so you can lead better.
The Johari Window, courtesy of communicationtheory.org.
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Show Links:
- Article: Blind Spots: How to Shrink Yours to Lead Better.
- Johari Window Model: https://www.communicationtheory.org/the-johari-window-model/
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #9: Leadership Weaknesses.
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Book: The War of Art.
- Assessment Tools: Clifton’s Strengths and PRINT.
It’s natural for team members to need your support, but when it happens too often, it can be a real drag on your time.
However, it’s not useful to lay the blame at their feet.
Leadership behaviour is a major factor in how people behave, so the question should be asked – are you setting up the right conditions for your people to be self-sufficient?
In this episode, I look at some strategies to help your people fend for themselves rather than using you as a crutch to lean on.
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Show Links:
- Article: Got a Needy Employee? Try These Strategies!
- Article: Protective Leadership: Is It Holding Your Team Back?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #40: Traps for Supportive Leaders.
- Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It’s Crucial.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder.
Have you ever taken the time to actually write down what your team does, and how it does it?
It can be a really useful process to go through to help you understand your team better, highlight gaps and improvement areas and communicate to others what your team is all about.
“Operating model” can comes across as a consulting buzzword, but when it comes down to it, it’s all about understanding what your team does, and how it does it… then writing it down.
In this episode I look at the key parts of your team operating model and how it can help you.
I’ve also got a handy checklist you can download below for free, to help you get started!
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Show Links:
- Article: Don’t Have a Team Operating Model? Here’s Why You Need One.
- Article: Why You Need to Understand Your Team Process.
- Article: 3 Signs You Should Worry When Team Members Are Quitting.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #34: How Toxic Workplaces Happen (and what you can do about it).
- Checklist: Download the checklist here.
Are you one of the many leaders who wish your people would take more accountability?
Do you yearn for the day when your people will take greater ownership of their work to produce better results?
Well, you’re not alone.
In this episode, I take a look at some simple ways to improve accountability in your team, to hopefully help your people step up and take greater ownership.
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- Article: 5 Simple Ways to Improve Accountability in Your Team.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #66: How to Feel In Control Without Being a Controlling Boss.
Sometimes you’ll come to work feeling like you’re being tested by your people.
They’ll push boundaries, do their own thing and maybe give you some attitude.
It can be super frustrating, but it’s a natural part of leadership especially for leaders new to their role. Sometimes people just need some time to adjust.
In this episode I look at some of the ways that people will try to test your leadership, and some steps you can take to pass the test with flying colours.
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Show Links:
- Article: Liked or Respected: Which Would You Rather Be?
- Article: 5 Ways People Will Test Your Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #87: How to Fix Behaviour Issues In Your Team.
- Article: 3 Simple Reasons Your Team is Missing Deadlines and How to Fix It.
- Article: Alternative explanations.
- Article: Visualisation.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #124: How to Stay Calm In Tricky, Stressful and Uncertain Situations.
- Article: 6 Steps to Deal With Behaviour Issues In Your Team.
Do you find your team reacting to problems rather than taking proactive action?
You’re not alone – this can be a huge problem for team productivity and effectiveness.
In this episode, I look at some of the reasons behind a lack of proactivity, and of course, some steps you can take to try to grow it in your team.
It never feels good to be on the back foot all the time, so instead, let’s see if we can create an environment where proactivity is more likely to happen!
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Show Links:
- Article: Proactive vs Reactive Team Members: Make the Switch.
- Research: Hofstede’s Cultural Insights
- Article: Is Your Team Overwhelmed at Work? Here’s Why You Need to Work at 80%.
Ever wanted to feel better about your leadership, enjoy your role more and have more motivation to make change and lead the way?
Well, you’re not alone.
Leadership can be a hard slog, especially with the constant change and turmoil that we have been experiencing over the last few years.
In this episode, I look at some good ways to start to shift your mindset to a more positive place, so you can show up as your best self more often.
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Show Links:
- Article: Build A Better Leadership Mindset In 6 Simple Ways.
- Book: Legacy – What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life.
- Book: The War of Art.
- Article: How Daily Commitments Can Improve Your Leadership.
- App: Randomly RemindMe.
- Article: Getting started with Visualisation.
- Work With Me: Apply for your complementary coaching session.
In this episode, I interview Robbie Swale who is a Coach and Author of the new book “How to Start When You’re Stuck”.
In this interview we cover a lot of topics including how leaders commonly find themselves getting stuck, as well as a powerful question to ask yourself when you’re struggling to know what action to take.
I’ve been working with Robbie over the last year myself, and as usual in this interview, he comes up with many insights and resources that you can find in the links at the bottom of this page.
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- Website: Robbie Swale’s Website
- Book: How to Start When You’re Stuck, by Robbie Swale
- Blog: Seth Godin’s Blog
- Book: The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks
- Book: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
- Video: Difficult Conversations by Fred Kofman
- Book: Time to Think, by Nancy Kline
Ever noticed how busyness is often a sign of capability, competence or importance in many workplaces?
Well, it’s time we put a stop to this.
The problem with needing to be busy all the time is that thoughtful leadership suffers.
In this episode, I look at some ways to start to push back against this nonsensical phenomenon and actually start getting real value out of the time we spend at work and in our leadership.
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Show Links:
- Article: The Cult of Busyness: How Leaders Can Kill It.
- Article: Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
- Article: Do You Have An Effective Team, or Are You Focused on Busywork?
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #76: Don’t Wait for a Crisis: Why Leaders Should Focus On Workplace Wellbeing.
Sometimes thoughtful leaders have a tendency to get in their own way. It might be not asking for what they really want, putting everyone else’s needs above their own or making assumptions about what’s possible without really knowing.
Whatever the case, this can hurt our leadership and career potential, so in this episode I look at some of the common ways that leaders hold themselves back and what we can start to do about it.
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- Article: Are You Holding Yourself Back? Spot the Signs.
- Article: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
- Article: How to Put Yourself First: A Guide For Leaders.
Leadership can be daunting, and it can feel like we need to have years of leadership training and study under our belts to feel confident.
The truth is, sometimes leadership is made out to be more complex than it really is. What we often really need is to exercise some simple common sense.
In this episode, I look at some common sense leadership principles you can apply to your leadership, because sometimes it just ain’t that complicated.
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Show Links:
- Article: Common Sense Leadership: Let’s Dumb It Down!
- Article: Don’t Know Your Employees? Here’s Why You Should.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #55: The Importance of Consequences for an Effective Workplace.
- Article: How to Put Yourself First: A Guide For Leaders.
It’s important to understand our team members to create an environment where they can perform at their best. But it’s no different for the leader.
In order to create an environment where you can perform at your best, you need to understand yourself. That includes your preferences, triggers and the situations that have you performing at your best and your worst.
In this episode I cover why it’s so important to understand yourself better, and some good ways to go about it.
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Show Links:
- Article: How Knowing Yourself Equals Better Leadership.
- Article: How to Delegate Work to Improve Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #9: Why It’s Good to Know Your Leadership Weaknesses.
- Clifton’s Strengths: Learn more about the Clifton’s Strengths assessment.
- Coaching: Apply for your complimentary Coaching Session.
Many leaders go through tough times dealing with politics, bad bosses and many other problems.
Not all of these issues are within our control to solve – so what should we do?
Sometimes, the best we can do is to keep taking small steps to improve and do our best to feel at peace with our leadership situation. Otherwise, we run the risk of feeling frustrated, helpless and burning out.
In this episode, I take a look at some ways to help you feel more at peace with your situation, so you can hang in there and keep leading thoughtfully.
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- Article: How to Be At Peace With Your Leadership Challenges.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #115: Workplace Issues? Take These Powerful Leadership Actions.
- Article: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
- Coaching: Apply for your complimentary Discovery Coaching Session.
It’s very common for leaders to feel low on confidence. After all, they’re often dealing with new situations and challenges which they’ve never had to tackle before.
When we feel unconfident, it can feel like we’re lacking confidence everywhere in our leadership.
In reality, there are often a few specific factors or situations that contribute to this feeling, not everything.
In this episode, I take a look at tackling the cause of your leadership confidence issues, rather than focusing on the symptoms. And I leave you with some great questions to ask yourself if you’re low on confidence, so you can get to the bottom of it and start improving.
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Show Links:
- Article: Leadership Confidence Problem? Let’s Diagnose It.
- Podcast: Is a Lack of Confidence Showing In Your Leadership?
- Coaching Applications: Apply for your complimentary coaching session here.
In this special episode of the Thoughtful Leader Podcast, I’m interviewed by Akua Asare, who is the founder of the Not-For-Profit Professional Women at Work. Akua is a Quality Manager and an inspirational improvement-focused individual who is doing great things!
In this episode Akua interviews me about my background, how and why I got into coaching and some of the leadership challenges I commonly find through working with my clients.
Akua is also a former coaching client of mine, so she speaks a little about her experiences of coaching and what it was like working with me! You can find out more about Akua and Professional Women @ Work at the show links below.
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- Professional Women @ Work website: https://profwomenatwork.co.uk/
- Toastmasters Club Directory: https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
- Coaching with me – apply for your Discovery Coaching Session here.
Negative behaviour patterns are common in workplaces, and you’ve probably run into them yourself.
So how do we put a stop to behaviour that impacts team performance and wellbeing?
In this episode, I take a look at this tricky problem and outline some steps you can take to try to make a positive shift in your working environment, for the benefit of yourself, your people and your organisation.
This is the last episode for the year – so be sure to give me an end of year positive review on Apple podcasts below if you liked it, and have a safe and hopefully restful end of the year.
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Show Links: * Article: Seeing Negative Behaviour Patterns? Here’s How to Stop Them. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #50: Are You Avoiding a Difficult Conversation? * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #104: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work. * Leadership Coaching: Apply for your complimentary full coaching session.
It’s a common problem for thoughtful leaders – taking on too much work to handle. Often, this comes from trying to help others more than we are trying to help ourselves.
This is an admirable quality, but it can land us in hot water.
In this episode, I look at some of the common causes of taking on too much, and of course, what we can do about them.
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Show Links: * Article: Taking On Too Much? Here’s Why. * Article: Don’t Have a Clear Team Purpose? Here’s Why You Need One. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #81: The Power of Setting a Direction for Your Team (and how to do it). * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities. * Article: Is Optimism Bias Sabotaging Your Leadership? * Article: How Short Term Thinking Leads to Bad Leadership. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #92: Struggling to Say No? Try These 5 Ways! * Resource: UK Government guidelines and calculators. * Coaching: Apply for your Discovery Coaching Session.
There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. Every team is made up of different individuals with varied goals, motivations and personalities.
As a result, you can’t just treat every team you lead the same way. To make matters more complex, every organisation is different too.
However, all is not lost. In my experience, there are a few main factors that I take into account when leading people, and in this episode I’m going to share them with you!
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Show Links:
- Article: What Leadership Style Should You Use and When?
- Article: Tailoring Your Leadership Approach: Key Factors to Consider.
- Article: 3 Simple Tips For Successfully Managing Experienced People.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #132: Would You Rather Be Liked or Respected?
- Leadership Coaching: Apply for your complimentary coaching session here.
Many of us are still caught in the busyness mindset – where we feel like we should be rushing around busy all day. However, in my experience, I’ve found that this is not a great way to show up as a leader.
Doing less is the key, allowing us to focus our effort to our most important priorities.
In this episode, I look at some of the key benefits of doing less, and some ways that you can make it happen in your work environment.
What steps can you take to start doing less today?
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Show Links:
- Article: Why Doing Less Is Better Leadership.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #81: The Power of Setting a Direction for Your Team (and how to do it).
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #58: Why Leaders Should Do More Planning (and Why They Don’t).
- Leadership coaching: Apply for your complimentary Discovery Session.
Many people “Like” all the nice leadership quotes on social media, and there seems to be an overwhelming amount of agreement of what constitutes good leadership.
So why do we continue to see bad leadership happening in our workplaces?
In this episode, I take a look at some of the causes of bad leadership that I notice, and some steps thoughtful leaders can take to try to avoid them and make their organisation a better place to work.
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- Leadership Coaching: Get in touch and apply for your complimentary Discovery Coaching Session.
Many thoughtful leaders suffer from the common problem of putting their own needs last, and focusing on everyone else first.
This is admirable, but over time, this can lead to a situation where you are working on everyone else’s priorities and sacrificing your own time and effort. It’s hard to lead effectively in this situation!
In this episode, I look at some good ways to start putting yourself first and setting boundaries, so you can lead effectively and show up as the best leader you can be, each day.
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Show Links: * Article: How to Put Yourself First: A Guide For Leaders. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities. * Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It’s Crucial. * Leadership Coaching: Get in touch and let’s start a conversation.
Many thoughtful leaders have a habit of overthinking things.
It’s great to be thoughtful, but too much thinking can turn into a lack of action. You can also tie yourself in knots trying to come up with the perfect plan or strategy, when simply getting on with the task might be a better use of your time.
However, we don’t overthink things because we like it. We do it for a reason.
In this episode, I take a look at why you might be overthinking and some steps in place to try to reduce this behaviour so you can get on and start taking action!
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Show Links * Article: How Being a Perfectionist Leader is Killing Your Leadership. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #123: Common Leadership Fears and How to Challenge Them. * Article: How Leaders Can Survive & Thrive Working “In the Grey”. * Article: The Importance of Planning and Why Leaders Can’t Ignore It. * Article: Is Passive Leadership Destroying Your Team’s Motivation? * Article: Overthinking Things? How Thoughtful Leaders Can Stop It.
Wellbeing is no joke. Working long hours and experiencing stress and pressure is still seen as a badge of honour in many workplaces, but it’s time we put a stop to it.
And the best people to make a change are leaders in our organisations!
In this episode, I take a look at some simple ways to support wellbeing for your people, to improve motivation, productivity and help people work more effectively rather than heading for burnout.
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Show Links: * Beyond Blue Australian research study: The State of Workplace Mental Health in Australia. * American Institute of Stress statistics * Meditation statistics by TheGoodBody * Headspace: Meditation app * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #80: What to Do When You Have Too Many Priorities * Article: 1 to 1 Meetings: Let’s Make Them Better * Article: The myth of multi-tasking * Leadership coaching – apply for your complimentary coaching session.
In this episode I had the pleasure of interviewing Ben Alexander, the retired Australian international Rugby player. Ben played for the Wallabies 72 times and also retired as the ACT Brumbies’ most capped player with 152 games.
Ben is now the co-owner of Canberra pub ‘The Dock’ (Instagram: thedockcbr) and co-founder of meal tracking service Alfred (IG: the.alfred.app).
The father of 3 is also on the ACT Brumbies Board, and The Dock was recently named ‘Canberra’s best pub’.
Ben started Alfred while he was playing, after getting frustrated with the current meal tracking apps, and designed Alfred to be the first meal tracking app that can “help do the work of tracking your food for you”, and launched it in the Apple App Store late last year. Ben is also a keen blogger and parkrunner.
I’m a big Australian Rugby fan so it was an honour and a pleasure to interview Ben and gain some insights from his international sporting career, as well as his life after Rugby.
We talk about accountability and culture within a team, motivation and also how sleep tracking and food tracking can help you bring your best self to the table every day, without needing to be a professional athlete!
Show Links: * Ben Alexander’s Blog: https://benalexander.substack.com/ * The Dock Pub in Canberra: https://thedockkingston.com.au/ * Alfred Meal Tracking App * Oura Ring for sleep tracking * The ACT Brumbies Rugby Club * The Wallabies (Australia Rugby Team) Instagram * Robbie Deans, former Wallaby Coach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Deans * Michael Cheika, former Wallaby Coach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cheika * The All Blacks (New Zealand Rugby Team Instagram)
It’s nice to be optimistic, but what happens when we go too far?
In this episode, I take a look at optimism bias and the impact it can have on our leadership. Of course, I’ll also offer some ways that you can try to reduce the impact of optimism without turning you into a negative thinker!
Be sure to leave a comment below and tell me about your experiences with people being too optimistic in your workplace.
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Show Links: * Apply for a complimentary Leadership Coaching session. * Article: Is Optimism Bias Sabotaging Your Leadership? * Article: Following Orders When You Don’t Believe In the Direction. * Article: Why You Need Your Team to Speak Up (and How to Make it Happen). * Article: De Bono’s Thinking Hats. * Article: What Is Risk Management? – APM.
In this episode, I interview Justin Peters, a young leader who went from being an intern at one of his first employers to being the Program Manager for the entire internship program.
We discuss many topics including the challenges of transitioning into a leadership position and the best ways to support new leaders to grow their confidence and experience.
Justin also hosts the Struggle is Real podcast, which helps young adults learn to overcome life challenges that aren’t really covered in traditional education programs.
You can contact Justin and follow his work at the links below.
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Passive aggressive behaviour can be quite common in the workplace, as many of us work in a relatively polite society. Passive aggressive behaviour is a way for people to say “No” and push back on you, without direct confrontation.
Needless to say, it can also be one of the most frustrating behaviours to encounter in the workplace!
Leaders are likely to run into this behaviour because we are in the business of making change… and many people don’t like change. In fact, they’d rather that you just left them alone!
In this episode, I’ll take a look at some common signs of passive aggressive behaviour and what you can do about it.
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We often think that only “bad” leaders fall into displaying poor leadership behaviour. In reality, I believe that depending on the situation, we all have the potential to do things we’re not proud of in leadership.
This doesn’t make us bad people or even bad leaders, it makes us human!
So what should you do if you’re slipping into bad leadership habits that you would like to change? It’s all about identifying the pay off (what you’re getting out of the behaviour) and then challenging the belief underneath.
Listen to this episode to learn more about how to get yourself back on the right leadership track.
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Coaching can be a really powerful way to help your people improve. It also shows that you’re interested in committing significant time to their personal and professional development.
In this episode, I run through some advice to help you coach your people, including when coaching might be appropriate, and when it might not be. I also introduce a simple model you can use for coaching, to help you and the person you are coaching achieve a positive outcome from the experience.
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Leaders often need to introduce process and structure into their teams. So it can be really frustrating when your people won’t follow what you’re trying to introduce!
In this episode, I look at some of the major reasons why people aren’t following your process. And as usual, I’ll provide some ideas of what you can do about it, to have your people follow your lead.
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Daily commitments are a powerful tool that I use with some of my coaching clients. Commitments are a great way to shift mindset and help you show up the way you want to every day.
For leaders this is extremely valuable, because we are often in challenging situations where our people are relying on us to remain calm, composed and motivated. After all, we want to role model the right behaviours!
In this episode, I discuss the benefits of daily commitments, how you can develop some for yourself and then what to do with them. Try them out, they can make a big difference to your mindset and create a better tone for your day.
Daily Commitment Questions:
“If I reached the end of my life, what is something I would regret if I hadn’t done it?”
“How do I want to be each day at work (or home, or wherever)?”
“What behaviour, mindset or attitude will help me to reach my goals?”
“What do I want to be really proud of, in my role / in my life / at the end of my life?”
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Ever wanted to improve engagement in your team, and make work more interesting at the same time?
Well, you’re in luck! In this episode, I interview Lauren Dixon who is the founder of Wizard Innovation Labs.
Lauren is an ex-corporate consultant who wants to make work better for all kinds of teams. She founded Wizard Innovation Labs in 2020 to help teams be more innovative and effective through unlocking people’s creativity and performance.
You’ll most often find her – Sharpie in hand – facilitating a creative problem solving workshop, or coaching leaders through understanding how to better understand the individuals on their teams.
It’s a great interview – see if you can implement some of Lauren’s ideas in your team! And you can learn more about Lauren at the links below.
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Show Links: * Online collaboration solutions: Mural and Miro. * Quick video recording and sharing tool: Loom. * Learn more about and follow Lauren: + LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wizard-innovation-labs/ + Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wizardinnovationlabs/ + Twitter: https://twitter.com/wizardteamlabs + Podcast: https://anchor.fm/work-upgraded/
Many leaders struggle with the balance between wanting their people to like them and getting the respect they need to perform their leadership role effectively.
So which is it? Is it better to be liked or respected? And is it reasonable to want both?
In this episode I look at both sides of this issue and look at the pros and cons of each!
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Show Links: * Article: Would You Rather Be Liked or Respected? * Article: Don’t Know Your Employees? Here’s Why You Should. * Group Coaching Program: Group Coaching to Tackle Overwork, Overwhelm & Stress.
It’s frustrating when you ask your people to do something and they just can’t seem to get on board.
Your first instinct might be to think they are incompetent or lazy. However, I’ve found that hardly anybody comes to work looking to do a bad job – there is usually more to the situation.
In this episode, I’ll take a look at some of the questions you can ask yourself about your people, to see whether you can narrow down the source of the problem.
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Some leaders consider regular 1 to 1 meetings with their team members to be a waste of time and effort. After all, there are lots of other things that could be done instead of adding another regular meeting to your schedule.
This perception often results in 1 to 1 meetings being held less frequently, on a monthly basis or even less. This isn’t very much over the course of a whole year!
1 to 1 meetings can be a valuable point of engagement with your team, especially if you focus on making them useful. In this episode, I share some of my ideas to improve your 1 to 1 meetings to both you and your team members can get the most out of them.
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Show Links: * Article: 1 to 1 Meetings: Let’s Make Them Better. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #63: “I Don’t Have Time”: Taking Back Control of Your Leadership. * Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team. * Article: How Leaders Can Identify Mental Health Issues. * Article: 5 Questions to Ask An Unmotivated Team Member. * Group Coaching Program: Group Coaching to Safeguard Your Wellbeing and Tackle Overwhelm.
It’s never pleasant when your people aren’t getting on board with what you’re trying to do. But leaders are in the business of making change, and resistance is a natural part of the process.
Whether you are trying to introduce a new process, change the structure of your organisation or trying to get your people to think differently, you’ll likely find people who are resistant to it. Change brings uncertainty, which breeds fear of the future, and of the unknown.
In this episode, I discuss some of the ways that resistance to change can show up in our workplaces and of course, some ways that you can overcome it to be successful in your change efforts.
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Show Links: * Article: Seeing Resistance to Change In Your Team? Do This. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #65: How to Deal With Uncertainty & Working “In the Grey”. * Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum. * Group Coaching Program: Group Coaching to Safeguard Your Wellbeing and Tackle Overwhelm.
It’s very common for leaders to feel a lack of confidence sometimes, and it’s nothing to be ashamed about. But ideally, we’d like to be perceived as self-assured and confident most of the time, so people want to follow us!
In this episode, I look at some of the common signs of a lack of confidence that I see in leaders, so that you can try to avoid them. Sometimes it’s as simple as creating a shift in language and behaviour that can make us seem much more confident.
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Show Links: * Article: How a Lack of Confidence Shows In Your Leadership. * Podcast: Beating Leadership Imposter Syndrome. * Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It’s Crucial. * Resource: Leadership Coaching to Improve Your Confidence.
Ever struggled working in a tough role in a challenging workplace? How about working for a horrible boss? If the answer is yes, then this episode is for you!
This week, I interview Reshad Oberlander, an experienced leader and host of the excellent Weekly Leadership Experience podcast. In this interview, Reshad shares his experience working in toxic workplaces, and how he has managed to bounce back and keep leading despite the setbacks.
Reshad is a leadership super junkie with more than 17 years of award-winning leadership experience in a number of industries. He hosts the podcast “The Weekly Leadership Experience” where he shares content designed to challenge, inspire, and grow your leadership.
Reshad wants to help leaders grow themselves and their teams to be more effective and avoid the mistakes in leadership that he has made or seen. Reshad is a “Canameristralian” and lives in Edmonton, Alberta with his wife, two daughters, and Zeus the Weimaraner.
Check out Reshad’s podcast at the link below – as well as the links to resources we discussed during the episode!
Follow Reshad Oberlander: * Website: www.reshadoberlander.com * Podcast: www.reshadoberlander.com/podcast * Instagram: www.instagram.com/reoberlander * Facebook: www.facebook.com/reoberlander * LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/reoberlander/ * Twitter: www.twitter.com/reoberlander
Show Links: * Book – The No Asshole Rule: https://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule-Civilized-Workplace-Surviving/dp/1600245854 * Tea with Gary Vee: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CAYmbf7FUsK/?utm_medium=share_sheet
Thoughtful leaders sometimes get caught in the trap of trying to shelter their people from harm. While this can be a good thing, it can also slow the growth and development of your team members if they never need to fight their own battles or solve their own problems.
In this episode, I look at protective leadership, some of the common causes and then the situations where I see it occur most commonly. You can use these scenarios to see whether you may need to adjust your own approach to your team!
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Trust is a vital ingredient in a productive, cohesive team. When people in a team trust each other, they feel like they are in a safe environment, free from blame.
People in a trusting team are much more likely to show commitment to the team and to feel compelled to do a great job. For leaders, trust is important because they need to believe that their team members will be able to get the job done and work well with others.
However, trust goes both ways. Not only do you need leaders to trust the team members, team members also need to trust the leadership. A low trust environment can destroy confidence as people believe their boss is out for themselves and don’t have their best interests at heart.
Compared with people at low-trust companies, people at high-trust companies report: 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives, 40% less burnout.
– Article: The Neuroscience of Trust, Paul J. Zak
In this episode, I talk about a simple trust model to help you think about it differently, some good ways to build trust in a team and why it matters.
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Show Links: * Article: Why Building Trust Is Better Than Authority. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #53: Why Trusting Your People Is Your Best Strategy. * The Trust Equation: https://trustedadvisor.com/articles/the-trust-equation-a-primer. * Article: The Neuroscience of Trust, Paul J. Zak * Leave a Review on Apple Podcasts here!
Work doesn’t always go smoothly, or to plan. As leaders, we are often put in situations where we are under stress and having to work through uncertainty.
Leaders need to be able to keep calm, make good decisions and move forward. That’s why in this episode, I run through some good ways to help yourself stay calm in times of trouble, stress and uncertainty.
After all, a calm leader looks more confident and capable, and is more likely to have people want to follow them!
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Fear is a natural part of leadership, because leaders are always pushing forward, trying to make change and improve their workplaces. They are taking on responsibility and dealing with difficult situations every day.
Thoughtful, introspective leaders can be vulnerable to fear because they tend to be aware of their feelings and emotions. Instead of ignoring them, they may feel that this means something is wrong. However, it’s impossible to avoid all fear in your leadership role, and it’s how we respond to them that really counts.
In this episode, I discuss some common fears of thoughtful leaders and some ways to try to reduce their impact on your leadership.
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Show Links: * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #83: Handling Emotions in Leadership. * Article: Got a Case of Leadership Imposter Syndrome? Try This. * Resource: Clifton Strengths assessment. * Article: How to Lead People Who Don’t Want Your Leadership. * Article: Why is Leadership Important? Here’s a Reminder.
One of the most frustrating parts of workplace life happens when people aren’t communicating effectively. After all, it’s easy for communication to break down in the hustle and bustle.
In this episode, I look at some of the common causes of communication issues and of course, some ways that you can avoid them in your team and workplace.
As usual, leaders have a huge part to play in how communication flows, which can have a dramatic effect on just how productive your workplace is!
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Show Links:
- Article: Communication Breakdown: 5 Common Causes and How to Avoid Them.
- Article: 5 Communication Skills Every Leader Needs.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #37: Communication Mistakes That Will Damage Your Leadership.
It’s inevitable that at some point in your leadership career, you’re going to come across a colleague that you just don’t see eye to eye with.
In this episode, I cover the various causes of poor working relationships and some ways to fix it so that you can work together productively, even if you don’t become amazing friends.
After all, it’s much nice to come to work without the stress and awkwardness of a difficult colleague.
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- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #50: Are You Avoiding a Difficult Conversation?
- Article: 3 Ways That Leaders Can Improve Cross Team Collaboration.
- Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It’s Crucial.
- eBook: The Difficult Conversations eBook.
Sometimes even the best of us will go down the road of weak leadership… even if we don’t mean to. Leadership is complex and can be difficult and sometimes we’ll run the other way when we come up against our fears.
We might take the easy road instead of the more difficult path. But what might that mean in the long run? Could our problems get even worse?
In this episode, I’ll discuss some of the misconceptions of weak leadership, as well as some of the key signs of weak leadership and what you can do about it.
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Show Links:
- Article: Weak Leadership: Are You Doing It?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #28: Why Softly Spoken Leaders Make a Big Impact.
- Article: Avoiding a Difficult Conversation? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
Collaborative and inclusive leadership can be great when used in moderation. But what happens when leaders collaborate too much?
Many thoughtful leaders fall into the collaboration trap because they value the input and opinions of others. They care about giving people a chance to make their opinions count. This is generally a good thing… but it can come with some issues.
In this episode, I’ll cover the pitfalls of the collaborative and inclusive leadership style and look at some ways to avoid them in your leadership. After all, it’s good to be collaborative, but only when it serves you and your team, not when it creates bigger problems!
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- Article: Collaborative Leadership: Are You Using It Too Much?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #44: Directive Leadership: What It Is and When You Should Use It.
- Article: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #104: Why Leaders Must Set Boundaries at Work.
- Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
In this episode I interview Michael Watts, who is a consultant focused on helping business incorporate more purpose into their operations. In our conversation we cover what we mean by “Purpose for Profit” and how leaders can start to use a purpose-driven approach to improve engagement within their teams and organisations.
You can get in touch with Michael by clicking the show links below, but don’t forget to leave a review if you like the podcast!
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if everyone in our teams were super high performers? You know, go-getters who are striving to improve their career and going over and above all the time?
Well, maybe. But maybe there are other people in our teams who play a valuable role that we are actually overlooking. In this episode, I take a look at some of the types of team members who deserve some appreciation, but sometimes aren’t the first people we think about.
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Show Links:
- Article: Show Appreciation For These 5 Underrated Employees.
- Article: Why Softly Spoken Leaders Make a Big Impact.
Do you ever wish your team members were more resilient? You know, putting up with the problems and striving forward with even greater motivation?
Well, it’s not enough to wish people were more resilient. And you can’t just blame them for feeling bad in a chaotic and complex work environment. Leaders need to set the right conditions for resilience to happen.
In this episode, I talk about some of the key ways that I believe you can create resilience in a team, and have your people feeling more able to cope with the challenges that come.
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Show Links: * Article: Why Being Resilient Will Kill You. * Video: Video: Suffering from Uncertainty in Your Leadership? Do This! * Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team). * Article: How Leaders Can Build a Resilient Team. * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 42: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
If you’ve ever encountered tricky behaviour or performance issues in your team, it’s not pleasant. Sometimes leaders will wait until the problem “sorts itself out” or goes away, instead of taking action to fix it.
The only problem with this approach is that these issues hardly ever go away by themselves. It often takes some powerful and courageous leadership action to make progress. In this episode, I’ll discuss four of the powerful actions you can take to address the issues in your team, rather than waiting for them to go away on their own.
There is no silver bullet solution for these problems either – you might have to try some different approaches and see what works. Your team is different from everyone else’s. But the 4 leadership actions presented in this episode are usually what it takes to make a positive change.
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- Article: 4 Powerful Leadership Actions to Fix Your Workplace Issues.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 48: The Perils of Passive Leadership.
- Article: Avoiding a Difficult Conversation? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
Many people think that being strategic is just for company CEOs and executives, but this isn’t necessarily the case. In this episode, I’ll introduce some of the top strategic skills that I believe make for better leadership.
You might not feel like you have a strategic bone in your body, but it really doesn’t need to be too complicated. In my opinion, strategy can be summed up by knowing where you want to be, developing an approach to getting there and having a framework for deciding what to do as things happen along the way.
Being strategic can help every leader achieve their goals and identify a better way to get from point A to point B!
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Show Links:
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #58: Why Leaders Should Do More Planning (and Why They Don’t)
- Article: How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
- Article: 5 Strategic Skills to Improve Your Leadership.
When you’re in a tough leadership role, it can be easy to slip into a victim mindset. Nothing is your fault, you can’t do anything to fix the workplace problems and you end up being passive in your approach.
This is obviously damaging for leaders because they slip into complacency and inaction. So what can we do about it? In this episode, I discuss this mindset challenge and some common situations that can bring it on.
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Show Links: * Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #87: How to Fix Behaviour Issues In Your Team * Article: Seeing Performance Issues In Your Team? Try These Things. * Article: 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace. * Article: Do You Have a Victim Leadership Mentality?
Continuous improvement is obviously very popular these days. Why wouldn’t you want your team to keep improving? But there is more to team improvement than just boosting performance to make you look good.
In this episode, I look at some less obvious reasons why improving your team is something that all smart leaders should do. It can make the difference between leading an engaged, motivated team and having a team that simply stands still.
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- Article: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Keep Chasing Team Improvement.
- Article: Motivation at Work: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
Leadership situations are often complex, because they involve people and competing priorities. Each leadership challenge involves multiple dimensions that need to be considered.
Even when you think there is a simple solution, there are often complexities that arise when we analyse the situation from different perspectives.
In this episode, I discuss a helpful model for assessing your leadership challenges from 3 perspectives: Rational, Emotional and Political. I’ll walk through these 3 aspects to help you view your workplace in different ways.
Hopefully, you can use these perspectives to successfully overcome your next leadership challenge!
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- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: Stakeholder Management Tips For the Everyday Leader.
- Article: Tricky Leadership Situation? Consider These 3 Dimensions.
Many leaders need to deal with a tricky situation – balancing the needs of their boss with that of their team.
In this episode, I take a look at why this can be difficult, and how failing to balance both aspects can be bad for your leadership and the workplace itself.
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- Article: Should You Focus On Managing Your Boss Or Your Team?
- Podcast: Avoiding a Negative Team Culture.
Ever had an influential stakeholder who blocked what you were trying to do? What about one who supported you and removed the roadblocks along the way?
Leadership always involves gaining support from the key people around you, whether it’s your boss, other colleagues or senior executives within the organisation. Leaders who ignore this aspect of leadership can come unstuck as they experience opposition to their ideas and have trouble moving things forward.
In this episode, I discuss some simple steps to take to help you manage your key stakeholders so you can get your work done more easily.
Stakeholder Matrix Stakeholder Management Matrix – use this to map your stakeholders.
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- Podcast #70: How Team Alignment Will Help You Get On (and Stay On) the Right Track.
- Article: How to Influence People to Achieve Your Leadership Goals.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/109/
Many leaders (especially the thoughtful ones) struggle to find the right balance between being too kind or lenient with their teams, and making them stand on their own two feet.
In this episode, I pose 3 simple questions to help you work out whether you are being too kind to your team members, or whether perhaps you could benefit from taking a bit of a harder position with them.
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- Article: Struggling as a Kind Leader? Ask Yourself These 3 Questions.
What is the difference between leadership and management? Does it matter? And who cares?
Well, in this episode, I answer all of these questions and provide some advice for those people who would rather be more “leader” and less “manager”. I also discuss some of the negative stigma around management and some of the ways that you can add more aspects of leadership to your role, no matter where you sit in your organisation.
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Show Links:
- Article: Leadership vs. Management: What’s the Difference?
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #65: How to Deal With Uncertainty Working “In the Grey”.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #81: The Power of Setting a Direction for Your Team (and how to do it).
- Article: How Negative Leadership Behaviour Shapes Team Culture.
- Show notes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/107/
It can be super frustrating when your team members aren’t working well together. Maybe you’re seeing too much conflict, or perhaps people just aren’t helping each other out the way you’d like.
Whatever the case, “team work makes the dream work”, so try these simple tips to help you bring out that spirit of togetherness that you’re probably craving in your team.
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Show Links:
- Article: 5 Ways to Encourage Teamwork Today.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #42: Moving Your People Along the Motivation Spectrum.
- Article: Why Building Confidence is Critical for Thoughtful Leaders.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/106/
Delegation is often seen as the saviour of leaders who are struggling with their workload.
“You just have to delegate more” is common advice for these leaders. While delegation is a useful tool and it can really help leaders control their workload and get more done, it also has its downsides.
In this episode, I’ll look at some of these potential downsides and give you some aspects to consider when you think about delegation.
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- Article: The Downsides of the Delegating Leadership Style.
- Online Course: Time Management For Leaders Online Course.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #18: How to Delegate to Improve Your Team.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/105/
Workplaces are busy, and different people have their own priorities that they are focused on. That's why to be productive and effective, leaders need to carve out their own space.
Setting boundaries is critical because if you're not working towards you or your team's priorities, then you're probably working on someone else's! Boundaries prevent us from being stepped on, run over or controlled by the people around us.
Setting boundaries can take courage, because you may need to push back on others and have a negotiation. But failing to do so will often leave you in a position where you can't do your best leadership.
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Show Links:
- Article: Setting Boundaries at Work: Why It's Crucial.
- Leadership Coaching: Leadership Coaching.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/104/
As part of my coaching, I wanted a simple model I could use as a reference to help leaders target strengths and shortcomings in their leadership. So, I came up with the MORE model of leadership which stands for Myself, Others, Results-Focus and Effectiveness.
The model is simple, but I think it covers most (if not all) of the most important aspects of leadership. I included it in this episode because I believe this can also be a good tool for leaders to see whether they have the various aspects covered, or if there are any gaps that warrant their attention.
You can see the MORE leadership model here: What do you think of it? Let me know in the comments below!
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Show Links:
- Leadership Coaching Page.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/103/
Not all leaders are born equal. Some people will have personal qualities that will help them succeed in leadership positions better than others.
However, the good news is that leadership qualities can develop over time, along with our personality. That means we don't need to be born with them, we can take steps to incorporate them into our leadership even if they might not come naturally.
In this episode, I look at the top 5 qualities that I believe make for the best leaders in today's organisations, and what you can do to bring them into your leadership.
Be sure to check out the Leadership Confidence Online Course & Coaching Program for great ways to boost your confidence in your leadership role. 🏆🏆🏆
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Show Links:
- Article: 5 Leadership Qualities You Need to Succeed
- Podcast Episode: Handling Emotions in Leadership
- Build Your Leadership Confidence: Leadership Confidence Online Course & Coaching Program
Some workplaces operate with a culture of "command and control" and toxicity that can have our team members quaking in fear.
In this episode, I talk about the concept of Psychological Safety and how creating a safe culture can help to improve performance and the willingness to try new things.
What are you going to do to help your people feel safe and enjoy coming to work each day?
If you like this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts here, I really appreciate it! 👈👈
Show Links:
- Article: How to Build Psychological Safety at Work
- Article: Why Formal Authority Won’t Solve Your Leadership Problems
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/101/
The sad reality in many workplaces is that leaders keep working harder and for longer, putting the needs of their organisations and bosses ahead of their own.
Self-care is critical for leaders, because you will never be able to support or lead anyone effectively if your own mindset is not where it should be.
In this episode, I cover some of the problems I see in our workplaces, why leaders don't look after themselves, and of course some good ways to look after your own self-care.
This is the last episode for 2020, so I want to help you head into 2021 with a great frame of mind for you to be able to create a lasting positive difference in your workplace.
If you are interested in leadership coaching to give yourself a great start to 2021, you can contact me here. I would love to hear from you and have a conversation about how I can help.
You can read more about my leadership coaching services here: Leadership Coaching 👈
Show Links:
- Article: Self Care at Work: Why Leaders Need It Most.
- Article: Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You're Asked to Do It All.
Have you ever wondered what the main parts of leadership are? Me too!
That's why in this episode, I'm going to take you through what they are. It's important that we keep these components in balance, because when we focus too much on one area, other parts of our leadership tend to suffer.
Listen to this episode to find out more about the components and let me know what you think in the comments below!
Show Links:
- Article: Balancing the Four Essential Leadership Components.
- eBook: The Difficult Conversations eBook.
- Interested in Leadership Coaching? Go here: Leadership Coaching.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/99/
Job satisfaction is a critical aspect of team member motivation. If people aren't satisfied coming to work and are having to drag themselves into work every day, you're likely to see poor performance.
In this episode, I highlight some of the common "Job satisfaction killers" that I see damaging motivation and performance in our workplaces, as well as some simple ways to try to overcome them in your team.
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Show Links:
- Audiobook: The Motivating Your Team Audiobook.
- Article: 4 Job Satisfaction Killers That Are Demotivating Your Team.
- Article: 5 Reasons Smart Leaders Keep Chasing Team Improvement.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/98/
Ever felt insecure during your leadership role? It's not uncommon to feel that way, as leaders are often having to deal with change and uncertainty in their teams and workplaces.
But just because we feel insecure sometimes, it doesn't mean we should resort to insecure behaviour. If we are conscious of the signs of insecure leadership, we can stop ourselves from going down that path!
In this episode, I look at some of the signs of insecure leadership so you can be aware of them and stop falling into the insecurity trap!
Show Links:
- Article: Are You an Insecure Leader? Watch for These 10 Signs.
- Podcast Episode: Beating Leadership Imposter Syndrome.
- Interested in Leadership Coaching? Go here: Leadership Coaching.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/97/
Do you find yourself frustrated by team members who won't meet your expectations? You're not alone!
Many leaders struggle with this issue, feeling like they always need to run around cleaning up after their team.
In this episode, I target some of the key areas which can cause this problem, and look at some ways to help your people step up and take on more accountability and ownership.
Show Links:
- Enrol in the Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Article: Team Members Unable to Meet Your Expectations? Check These Things.
- Article: How to Encourage Team Members to Take Accountability.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/96/
Have you ever had to lead people that don't really want you to? Awkward!
But this can be quite a common problem in leadership, because there are lots of potential reasons why people might be resistant to your leadership. In this episode, I cover some of these situations, the root cause that is often behind this resistance and of course, what you can do to overcome this tricky problem.
Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and please leave a review on Apple Podcasts if you like it! Oh... and tell your friends and colleagues to spread the word!
Show Links:
- Article: How to Lead People Who Don't Want Your Leadership.
- Article: 3 Simple Tips For Successfully Managing Experienced People.
- Shownotes Page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/95/
As the leader of your team, the openness and honesty of your communication can be a bit of a balancing act. It can feel good to be open with your team, but this can cause problems too.
In this episode, I cover the benefits and drawbacks of being open and honest with your team, including some of the ways to strike the right balance.
If you like this episode, be sure to subscribe using your podcast platform of choice, whether it's Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or on Spotify.
Show Links:
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 37: Communication Mistakes That Will Damage Your Leadership
- Article: Why Building Trust Is Better Than Authority.
- Article: Why Showing Trust In Your People Is the Best Strategy (and Why It Works).
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/94/
Have you ever felt like you wanted your team, colleagues or your own boss to like you so much, that it has impacted your leadership? If so, you're not alone.
Some leaders would rather please the people around them than make the right decisions or take the right actions.
In this episode, I'll take a look at some signs that you might be a bit of a people-pleaser and then look at some ways you can shift your mindset to take the right actions instead.
Show Links:
- Leadership Confidence Online Course: Enrol here!
- More Confidence Resources: Leadership Confidence Resources.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/93/
Saying "No" is a critical leadership skill, and one that many leaders still struggle with. We all want to be seen as "team players" and good leaders, so it can be tempting to just say "Yes" to everything.
In this episode, I talk about how to push back and say "No" to unreasonable requests and extra workload that would push you and your team over the edge!
Show Links:
- Article: 5 Ways to Say No Without Getting Fired.
- Podcast Episode: Is All Your Hard Work Helping or Hurting?
- Online Course: Leadership Confidence Online Course.
- Online Course: Team Accountability Builder.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/92/.
Have you ever fallen into the trap where you think you know what your team members want? And perhaps you've made assumptions based on your own experience and preferences.
In other words, you've assumed you know what your team members like, dislike or want to achieve in their careers, because you think they are just like you! This is a cognitive bias known as the "False Consensus" effect. Basically, this means in our head, we tell ourselves that other people are just like us.
Unfortunately, this can have a negative impact on the way we lead our teams. In this episode, I cover some of the bad things that can happen when we fall prey to this effect - and of course some of the ways we can try to avoid it in our teams!
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Don't forget to try my new YouTube Channel for more great leadership resources - it's different than the podcast, so be sure to try it out!
Show Links:
- Enrol in the Team Accountability Builder Online Course.
- Article: False Consensus: Is it Hurting Your Leadership?
- Article: Cognitive Biases explained.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #72: How You Can Be a More Thoughtful Leader Today.
- Article: Risk & Reward: How to Provide Development Opportunities For Your Team.
- Thoughtful Leader YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB_x0blCwpjKcPNc9CcjFRg/.
Ever felt like you're just not good enough for your leadership role? Do you feel like other leaders seem more calm and confident than you do?
Well, you're not alone. In fact, I've felt all of these feelings and more during my leadership career. The problem with imposter syndrome in leadership roles is that it can make you step back and stop leading the way you should be.
So in this episode, I'm going to cover some of the best ways that I've dealt with it over the years, so you can deal with it too.
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The course will take you through the process of building (and then applying) your own Accountability Plan which is tailored for your team, so you can help your team members feel more invested in the success of the team!
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Show Links:
- Article: Got a Case of Leadership Imposter Syndrome? Try This.
- Online Course: Leadership Confidence Online Course.
- Podcast #78: Want to Feel More In Control of Your Team? Try Letting Go.
Building team accountability is a great way to improve performance in a team. Team members that take accountability are more likely to put in extra effort, care and attention to making sure the work is done right.
Without accountability, leaders often feel like they are going it alone. If you are the only one who really cares about the quality of the work in your team, it can feel like you're running around trying to fix everything by yourself.
That's why we want to be doing things that increase accountability, instead of damage it. Sometimes as leaders, we do things that damage accountability in our teams, even without meaning to.
In this episode, I go through some of the simple actions that leaders sometimes take that can ruin accountability in a team, so you can avoid them!
Want to Build More Accountability In Your Team? Enrol for the Team Accountability Builder Online Course, where you'll create your own accountability plan to build ownership and commitment in your team!
The online course is available for Pre-sale right now, so click the link below to claim your spot before the pre-sale closes!
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Show Links:
- 4 Ways Leaders Damage Accountability in the Workplace.
- 5 Simple Ways to Improve Accountability in Your Team.
- Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 32: Why You Can't Hold Your Team Accountable.
- Show Notes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/89/
The way that leaders behave can have a dramatic impact on the way our team operates. Leadership behaviour can be contagious, so we need to make sure we're sending the right signals to our team members.
Like it or not, we are role models for our team members, and they'll often behave the way they think we want them to, even if they don't really believe in it. In this episode, I look at the impact of negative leadership behaviour and how it can shape the attitudes and actions of our team members.
Then we cover some more positive behaviours that are more likely to bring out positive aspects of team culture.
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Show Resources:
- Article: How Negative Leadership Behaviour Shapes Team Culture.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast: How Toxic Workplaces Happen (and what you can do about it).
- Article: The Unintended Consequences of Leading By Fear.
- Article: Following Orders When You Don't Believe In the Direction.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/88/.
If you’ve ever had trouble with behaviour issues in your team, you’re not alone!
In this episode, I take a look at some simple steps to take to diagnose and start to fix behaviour problems from team members. This can be quite tricky so there might be some trial and error, but if you follow the steps you should be able to make some progress!
Don’t forget to subscribe in your podcast app of choice and leave a review on Apple Podcasts if you like this episode!
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Show Resources:
- Article: 6 Steps to Deal With Behaviour Issues In Your Team.
- Podcast Episode: Thoughtful Leader’s 5 Cs of Performance Management.
- Team Accountability Pack: Team Accountability eBook Pack.
Situation-Behaviour-Impact Tool (SBI-BI)
With the rise of more inclusive and collaborative leadership, setting deadlines can be uncomfortable for many leaders. However, there are good reasons for deadlines and they really can help to improve performance.
The trick is to make your deadlines meaningful, useful and real. This will help your people strive to achieve the target and feel motivated at the same time.
In this episode, I look at some of the common problems we see with deadlines in the workplace (or lack of them), the benefits of setting good deadlines and milestones and of course, how you can do it for your team.
The Eustress and Performance Curve
Resource: Deadlines are just one part of motivating people. If you are struggling to motivate your team I know how you feel - I've been there!
That's why I created the Motivating Your Team Audiobook, with tools and techniques to get the best out of your team members and create the right environment for motivation. Don’t settle for a lazy, disinterested team… click here to listen to the audiobook today.
Show Links:
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/86/.
- Article: How Setting Deadlines Will Improve Your Team.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast #30: Using Work Pressure to Improve Team Performance.
- Article: 3 Simple Reasons Your Team is Missing Deadlines and How to Fix It.
- Article: Eustress - https://www.healthline.com/health/eustress.
Ever felt like you're constantly dealing with people problems and team issues, rather than doing actual work?
You're not alone. Dealing with people problems is a natural part of leadership. However, if it is consuming your working day so much that you can't actually focus on doing real work that moves your team or business forwards, then you have a problem.
You're not alone. Dealing with people problems is a natural part of leadership. However, if it is consuming your working day so much that you can't actually focus on doing real work that moves your team or business forwards, then you have a problem.
Frustrated By a Lack of Accountability In the Workplace or Your Team? Try my Team Accountability Pack. [sc name="resource-icon" ] I know what it's like to feel frustrated because your team won't take ownership.
That's why I created the Team Accountability Pack, with two popular eBooks to help you improve accountability in your team and tackle the difficult discussions you might need to get there!
Buy the Team Accountability Pack today and see the difference.
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Show Links:
- 5 Signs That You Aren't Really Solving Your Team Issues
- Seeing Performance Issues In Your Team? Try These Things.
- 6 Steps to Deal With Behaviour Issues In Your Team.
- Episode 58 - Why Leaders Should Do More Planning (and Why They Don't)
- Effective Ways Leaders Can Deal With Frustration in the Workplace.
Doing meaningful work is one of the greatest motivational factors that drives team member performance. When people feel as if they are taking on worthwhile tasks that matter, they're more likely to feel engaged and put in the effort.
Unfortunately, there are many people who aren't doing meaningful work. There is a lot of wasted time and effort in our workplaces which can destroy motivation.
In this episode, Ben looks at some ways that you can provide more meaningful work to your team, so they feel a sense of purpose and meaning when they come to work.
Like this episode? Please leave a review! Simply go to Apple Podcasts to leave your review - it really helps to get the word out to other leaders so we can improve the quality of our workplaces.
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Links:
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator (and How to Provide it in Your Team).
- Book: "Start With Why" by Simon Sinek. (Affiliate link)
- Article: Do You Have An Effective Team, or Are You Focused on Busywork?
- Article: Why the Best Leaders Are Wary of Stretch Goals.
As humans, we are constantly experiencing emotions and the workplace is no exception. Leaders often need to deal with deadlines, team problems and other situations, so it's inevitable to feel stressed, upset or anxious from time to time. Even positive emotions can get us in trouble in the wrong context.
The most important part of dealing with emotions is making sure that we can respond to them in a productive way.
In this episode, I cover some of the ways we experience emotions, some of the trouble they can cause and of course how you can work on ways to handle them more effectively.
After all, leaders are role models so we need to be setting an example for the people around us!
Do you like this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it helps other leaders find the podcast and create better workplaces. And of course, I really appreciate it!
Click here to visit Apple Podcasts and leave a review!
Show Links:
- Article: The Impact and Importance of Emotions in Leadership.
- Article: Theories of Emotions from Very Well Mind.
- Podcast Episode #73: Why We Need More Mindfulness In Leadership.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/83/
When I hear the words "Performance Management" these days I tend to cringe a little. Why?
Because over the years, Performance Management seems to have become more about following arduous Human Resources (HR) processes and pushing people out of the organisation than actually improving performance.
In this episode, I run through the 5Cs of Performance Management, to actually help you get better results in your team. Let's forget about the formal HR process for a moment and actually focus on good leadership and management to improve your team.
The better you lead your team, the less likely it is that you'll run into the tricky and complicated people problems that many leaders need to deal with!
Frustrated By Performance Issues In Your Team? Try my Team Accountability Pack. I know what it's like to feel frustrated by performance issues and team members that don't take ownership of their work.
That's why I created the Team Accountability Pack, with two popular eBooks to help you improve accountability in your team and tackle the difficult discussions you might need to get there!
Buy the Team Accountability Pack today and see the difference.
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Show Links:
- Article: The 5 Cs of Performance Management.
- Article: How a Self Fulfilling Prophecy Will Make or Break Your Team.
- Resource: Team Accountability Pack.
- Shownotes page:
Setting a direction is an extremely powerful action that leaders can take to reduce conflict, improve productivity and make sure everyone is on the same page. Setting a clear direction seems obvious, but I've seen many cases where conflicting priorities still unravel teams and cause dysfunction.
In this episode, I look at some of the reasons why setting a direction is so important, how it will help your team and of course, how you can set a direction yourself.
Get the Team Accountability Pack: I know what it's like to lead a disinterested team who aren't invested in the work... it's not pleasant!
I created the Team Accountability Pack to address this common issue.
It will help you to build accountability in your team and also tackle the difficult and uncomfortable conversations that you sometimes need to make it happen!
Click here to get the Team Accountability Pack today!
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Links:
- Resource: The Team Accountability eBook Pack.
- Article: The Power of Setting a Direction For Your Team.
- Article: How to Use Work Pressure to Help Your Team Thrive.
- Podcast Episode: Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 48: The Perils of Passive Leadership.
Many organisations seem to be trying to do too much, with too little. The list of "critical" initiatives and projects seems to keep getting bigger.
Committing to lots of priorities seems like a good idea. It looks good to say you'll complete 100 initiatives this year. The problem is that in reality, it looks more like you'll complete 20 of those initiatives. Often the pressure flows down hill. The senior leaders at the top set too many priorities, and then everyone else needs to deal with it.
So in this episode, I look at some of your options when you and your team are faced with too many priorities that you won't be able to achieve.
Do you feel overwhelmed and disorganised? Try my Online Course. I know what it's like to struggle with your workload and feel overwhelmed.
That's why I created the Time Management for Leaders Online Course, to help you focus on what matters, feel more organised and get your important work done.
The course is self-paced and contains tools and techniques to help you manage your workload, improve productivity and achieve the right outcomes for your team. Click here to learn more and enrol.
Links:
- Online Course: Time Management For Leaders Online Course.
- Good Book: The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team.
- Podcast: Episode 57 - Employee Wellbeing: Is it Important Or Are We Just Ticking a Box?
- Article: Too Many Priorities: What to Do When You're Asked to Do It All.
- Article: Too Busy at Work? Try These 5 Things.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/80/
Self-serving leaders put themselves ahead of other people in their organisation, including their teams. Most of us have a tendency to believe that some leaders are selfish and out for themselves, while others aren't.
I believe that our self-serving tendencies lie on a spectrum, it's not black or white. Yes, there will always be the political animals and the power players, but everyone else sits on this spectrum too.
Sometimes, the environment we work in can bring out these harmful characteristics that make you put yourself first. In this episode, I look at some of the common signs of self-serving leadership and how you can avoid them when you lead your team.
Thoughtful Leader Forum: Leadership can feel lonely, which is why I created the Thoughtful Leader forum for you to share your experiences and solve your challenges with other Thoughtful Leaders. Click here to sign up and start a conversation today. Links:
- Article: 3 Symptoms of the Self-Serving Leader. Do You Have Them?
- Article: Why Your Fear of Leaving Your Job Is Making You a Worse Leader.
Leadership can be stressful. Sometimes we feel like we want to have all the answers, when the reality is that our workplaces can be full of ambiguity and uncertainty.
In an effort to gain control of their team and guide them in the right direction, some leaders will try to grip on tighter. They feel like if they don't, they'll lose control and everything will go wrong.
Well... what if I told you that the opposite is true? That you should in fact force yourself to let go, stand back and let your team take on more of the accountability?
In this episode I cover the importance of understanding what you can control and what you can't, as well as the key reasons why letting go will help you actually feel more in control of what is happening in your team.
The Sphere of Control
You can see the Sphere of Control shown below - use it to understand what to focus on... and what you're wasting time worrying about!
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Links:
- Article: How Letting Go Will Help You Take Control.
- Article: How to Get Comfortable Without Controlling Leadership.
- Podcast: Episode 21: Micromanagement and How to Stop It.
- Podcast: Episode 22: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy & Leadership.
- Online Course: The Leadership Confidence Online Course.
Most of us have been conditioned to believe that hard work is a good thing. Working long hours, being exhausted every day - it's all part of the general grind of work.
While hard work was certainly needed in the "olden days", our working lives have changed. Instead of going down a mine or lifting heavy things, many of us spend a lot of time doing "knowledge work" which involves writing documents or analysing information.
With this type of work, many of the benefits aren't so obvious. Many workers spend time in countless meetings and writing documents that nobody really needs. This means there is a tremendous opportunity to be working more effectively, instead of just putting in more and more hours.
In this episode, I discuss how your intense work ethic could actually be hurting you, rather than helping you... and talk about some steps you can take to improve the situation.
Online Course: Would you like to build a mindset that focused on doing good work, rather than just more work? Learn to focus on what matters and start to get rid of the rest with the Time Management for Leaders Online Course. It will have you leading more effectively, instead of just wasting your time. Click here to learn more and enrol today.
Got something to say? Click here to head over to the Thoughtful Leader forum and share your experience with all the other Thoughtful Leaders out there!
Links:
- Article: Is Being a Hard Worker Helping or Hurting You?
- Podcast: Why You Need to Work at 80%.
- Online Course: The Time Management for Leaders Online Course.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/77/
I've worked in many organisations where leaders are still running on the hamster wheel of work. These leaders treat themselves poorly, without taking breaks or doing anything else to support their wellbeing at work.
There are a few problems here - perception is one of them. Some leaders think that if they are perceived as hard-working or never taking a break, people will think they are better leaders... wrong!
When I see someone who can't take a break and keeps putting themselves second all the time, I see someone who has their priorities wrong and needs a wake-up call.
Your health and wellbeing is important if you're going to lead other people, because you can't help anyone when you're stressed, run-down and not thinking straight. In this episode, I cover some of my top, very simple strategies to improve your workplace wellbeing so you can be there to support your team.
Online Course: If you need to reduce stress and improve your effectiveness, enrol in the Time Management for Leaders Online Course, containing short video lessons with actionable strategies to improve your productivity. Don't just be busy... be effective! Links: * Article: Essential Daily Habits to Maintain Your Workplace Wellbeing. * Article: Why Good Mental Health is a Leader's Best Friend. * Article: Psychology Today - How Work Breaks Help Your Brain. * Article: How Work Breaks Improve Productivity. * Online Course: Time Management for Leaders.
Many organisations spend an enormous amount of time focusing on small, trivial issues and working around problems instead of tackling them head on. Focusing on the small issues is a great way to procrastinate and make yourself feel like you're doing something.
In this episode I talk about why this happens, how you can tell if it's happening to you and then, of course, some ways to help you change your mindset and give you the courage to address that elephant in the room.
If you like this episode, make sure you take a few minutes to leave a review on Apple Podcasts here. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
And don't forget to join the **Thoughtful Leader Community forum** at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I could answer on an upcoming episode!
**Links:**
- Article: Consumed by Trivial Issues? Let's Focus on the Real Problem.
- Article: Parkinson's Law of Triviality.
- Podcast: Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 31: Short Term Thinking = Bad Leadership.
Are you a leader who would love your team to be more proactive? I'm sure you're not alone!
Having proactive team members is great because it reduces the "fire-fighting" reactive mentality that often builds up in our teams and workplaces.
In this episode, I share some of my tips for cultivating a more proactive team, that you can try for yourself. They aren't rocket science, but you do need to be consistent to get results.
Try them out and let me know what happens!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts here. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I might answer on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: 5 Ways to Encourage Team Members to Be More Proactive.
- Article: Everyone is stupid, except for my team!
- Audiobook: Check out the Motivating Your Team Audiobook.
- Show Notes Page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/74/
Stress is a common part of every workplace, and leaders experience it more than most. In one particularly stressful part of my leadership career, I started to notice myself getting more frustrated and upset at situations in my workplace.
I decided that I wanted to make sure I was calm and composed and able to take on stressful work environments without flying off the handle. After receiving some advice from a senior colleague, I decided to give mindfulness exercises a try.
Mindfulness takes a little practice, but it isn't difficult. It really helps you to become more aware of your thoughts and feelings and how you are responding to situations in your life.
In this episode I share some tips on mindfulness that can help you remain calm and composed in your leadership role. After all, people are looking at us to provide a good example... we are role models, even if we don't really feel like it!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts here. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I could answer on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: Why We Need More Mindfulness in Leadership Today.
- Resource: Zen Habits.
Thoughtful leaders show empathy, are introspective, perceptive but they also push back when they need to.
Contrary to popular belief, being a thoughtful leader is not all about being soft and fluffy when leading your team. Being a thoughtful leader doesn't mean you're a pushover or you don't stand up for yourself.
Thoughtful leadership is all about intention. Thoughtful leaders (like you) think about how you are leading and the impact your leadership is having on the people around you. Listen to this episode for more ideas on how you can be a more thoughtful leader today - your team will thank you for it!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts here. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I could answer on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: 5 Ways to Be a More Thoughtful Leader Today.
- Show notes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/72/
Team Motivation is an ongoing challenge for many leaders, because work isn't the only thing many team members want to be doing. Some team members are very motivated and career-focused, but I've found this isn't necessarily the norm.
That doesn't mean we give up on the other team members. Leaders have a responsibility to try to bring out the best in their teams, and we can do this by working with our people and understanding their goals and aspirations.
You can see the simple Team Motivation Model below, with the five components Aspirations, Purpose, the Pathway, Hygiene Factors (or Environmental Conditions) and Team Harmony.
See if you can use the model to prompt you with ways to improve the motivation in your team. Your team members will thank you for it!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts here. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I could answer on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: A Simple Model for Team Motivation.
- Audio Book: Motivating Your Team for Improved Performance.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/71/
If you feel like your team isn't operating as well as it could be, it might be that you aren't all pulling in the same direction. Confusion, frustration and conflict are often symptoms that people aren't on the same page.
In other words, you need to get your team aligned so you're all speaking the same language. In this episode, I talk about some simple ways to make sure you and your team members are "singing from the same hymn sheet".
In simple terms, we can do this by choosing a direction, setting clear expectations and then monitoring and correcting as we go. Listen to the episode to find out more!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to have your say on this episode, share your experience or post a question which I could answer on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: Meaningful Work, the #1 Motivator.
- Podcast Episode: Why Leaders Should Be Doing More Planning.
- Article: Conflict? Confusion? How Team Alignment Will Help You.
- eBooks: The Hold Your Team Accountable eBook.
When you're trying to implement a change in your team, it can be tempting to just push it through. After all, you're the boss, right?
Unfortunately this is the attitude taken by many organisations who fail to plan changes adequately and consider the different aspects of change. However, taking a "It's my way or the highway" approach can lead to long-term damage to your team and organisation as resentment grows for the leadership team.
In this episode I cover some of the questions to consider when trying to implement a change in your team, as well as introduce a simple framework that can help you structure your change efforts.
Yes, change is constant and you will never please everyone, but leaders can and should be doing a lot better when it comes to leading change initiatives.
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to comment on this episode or share your experience or post a question which could be answered on an upcoming episode!
Links:
- Article: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/change-leadership-my-way-or-the-highway/
- ADKAR Framework: https://www.prosci.com/adkar/adkar-model
- Book: "Start With Why" by Simon Sinek - (Note: This is an affiliate link and I receive a small commission for any purchases through it).
In this episode, I answer some reader and listener questions that recently came through regarding how to manage a micromanaging boss and what happens when you fail to delegate.
I'm sure these are applicable to many of you leaders out there so I thought this would be a good opportunity to give my guidance on these often trick situations!
If you'd like to have the chance to have a question addressed in a future episode, simply sign up (for free) and post your query in the Thoughtful Leader forum!
If you like this episode, I'd be ever so grateful if you could please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It really helps other leaders find the podcast so we can help create better workplaces around the world. Thank you in advance!
Links:
- Post your question on the Thoughtful Leader Forum: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/
- Related Episode: #46 - Bad Bosses and the Scientist Mindset.
- Shownotes: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/68/
Effective leadership is all about getting your important work done while being able to support and improve your team at the same time. I have seen so many examples of wasted effort in my career and I feel that a focus on greater effectiveness is the solution.
It's not all about money - when people are working on things that don't matter or doing boring manual work that could be done more easily, it is demotivating and soul-destroying. We don't want that in our teams, so in this episode we focus on 3 pillars of effective leadership. See if you can apply them in your team!
Online Course: If you want to be more effective, take the Thoughtful Leader Time Management for Leaders Online Course. It's open now so enrol today!
And if you like this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts - it really helps others find the podcast so we can help more leaders around the world! Thank you in advance!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ to comment on this episode or share your experiences, challenges and successes!
Links:
- Article: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/leadership-principles-effective-leaders/
- Online Course: The Time Management for Leaders Online Course.
- Show notes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/67/
Leadership can be uncomfortable, especially when you're worried that your team might not be able to deliver what you need.
Unfortunately, some leaders start to resort to controlling leadership, where they get deep into the detail of every aspect and start to want to know everything that's happening, all of the time. Leaders in this situation might not delegate, instead trying to keep hold of the key aspects of the work for themselves.
This controlling approach doesn't lead to a very good outcome for our teams. So in this episode, I provide some steps to try help you feel more comfortable that you're in control, while also allowing your teams the space and autonomy to get their work done and stay motivated.
If you're struggling with feelings of a lack of control, listen to this episode and hopefully it can help you!
Don't forget to join the Thoughtful Leader Community forum at www.thoughtfulleader.com/community/ and share your experiences, troubles and successes!
Links:
- Article: How to Get Comfortable Without Controlling Leadership.
- Podcast Episode: Thoughtful Leader Podcast Episode 53: Why Trusting Your People Is Your Best Strategy
- Podcast Episode: Episode 58: Why Leaders Should Do More Planning (and Why They Don't)
- Resource: The Motivating Your Team Audiobook.
- Resource: Hold Your Team Accountable eBook.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/66/
Working "In the Grey" is a term used to describe a situation where we don't have all the answers.
We might be embarking on a project that we've never tried before or trying to solve a problem we're just not that familiar with. This is a fairly common situation as the business landscape is changing rapidly, with technology advances giving rise to new forms of competition and disruption.
The recent pandemic is another good example of working in the grey as many organisations suddenly needed to find out how they were going to remain productive while working with a completely remote team.
In my consulting career I had to do this often. When I started a new consulting project, if I'd never worked for the client before, I was unfamiliar with the organisation and their problem. But I couldn't take a long time to figure it out... I had to get cracking straight away!
In this episode I cover lots of useful tips for working in the grey and succeeding. And once you've succeeded working with uncertainty a few times, you'll feel much more confident to lead your team through it again!
Join the new Thoughtful Leader Community: I've recently created a new leadership forum for you (and other leaders like you) to engaged in discussions that will improve the way we lead our teams. Simply visit thoughtfulleader.com/community and sign up for your free account to start a conversation!
Links:
- Article: How Leaders Can Survive and Thrive Working In the Grey.
- Community: Access the Thoughtful Leader Forum and start some discussion!
- Podcast Episode: Why Leaders Should Do More Planning.
- Article: The Adaptability Quotient.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/65/
It's easy for leaders and their teams to become consumed with the day to day work, never finding the time to take a breath.
There also seems to be a desire to fill up our entire schedule with work, leaving no room for downtime or working on other activities that will help our teams improve.
However, when our teams are working flat out for 100% of the day, they are more likely to experience burnout, have less variety in their work and find no time to spend developing their own skills and careers.
That's why we need to work at 80% capacity. The rest of the time can be spent doing value adding work that will help our people and our teams improve!
Online Course: For great ways to improve your effectiveness and productivity at work, take the Time Management for Leaders Online Course today! Invest the time now and you'll see big rewards later as you start to work more effectively. Enrol now!
Links:
- Article: Is Your Team Overwhelmed at Work? Here's Why You Need to Work at 80%.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/64/
We are all busy and have constraints on our time, but that doesn't mean that we need to be a victim of our circumstances.
I hear it often - "I don't have time". What we're really saying is "That's not important right now".
I'm asking all the leaders out there to change the narrative. We need to start taking back control and being intentional about where our focus lies, instead of hiding behind the "lack of time".
We will always make time for the important things, so let's find out what they are, and do them. No more excuses - let's just be open and honest about where our priorities are!
Once we start to do this, we'll realise that some of the choices we make aren't great. After all, when we say "No", what are we saying "Yes" to instead?
Links:
- Show Notes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/63/
- Article: "I Don't Have Time" - Taking Back Control of Your Leadership.
- Article: Multi-tasking: Switching Costs - American Psychological Association (APA) - https://www.apa.org/research/action/multitask
- Article: Women and Men Are Equally Bad at Multitasking - Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/2018/09/research-women-and-men-are-equally-bad-at-multitasking
- Article: How Multitasking Affects Productivity & Brain Health - VeryWellMind - https://www.verywellmind.com/multitasking-2795003.
Often we dream of being "the boss" and having the authority to make any changes we like. The reality of our workplaces is much different.
So much of leadership is about influencing and building rapport with your team and other managers, and formal authority really only gets you part of the way.
Being the boss gets your team to listen to you, but they won't willingly follow your lead unless you build rapport, respect and credibility as well.
In this episode I talk about formal authority and some of the problems it doesn't solve, and then give some ideas on how you can improve your leadership without relying on formal authority so much.
Links:
- Article: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/formal-authority-leadership/.
- Article: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/how-to-influence-people/.
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/62/
The working world has been changing over recent years, with more flexible working arrangements and the ability to work remotely. Some online software businesses already operate with an entirely remote workforce and without a head office!
With the rise of the Coronavirus pandemic this year, we're now seeing a shift to remote working at a rapid rate. So in this episode, I talk about some of my tips and factors to consider when leading remote teams, so that you can stay productive and keep people involved.
Links:
- Article: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/leading-remote-staff/
- Show notes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/61/.
As leaders we need to be reinforcing the right behaviours in our teams. We do this by praising or rewarding people for good behaviour and making sure there are consequences for bad behaviours.
Likewise, we need to be doing this for performance, too. This means it is really important for us to be aware of what good performance is, and what it isn't. Too often people are rewarded for showing superficial high performance.
So in this episode, I cover some of the signs that might show that your people are just trying to appear like they are strong performers... rather than actually demonstrating it through their work.
Show Links:
- Shownotes page: https://www.thoughtfulleader.com/podcast/60/
- Article: Are Your Team Members Faking High Performance? Watch for These 10 Signs.
Middle Managers sometimes have a pretty tough role. They need to ensure their teams are performing well, while also pleasing their senior management and carrying out their direction.
This can be really hard if you disagree with the direction coming from the top, because you need to balance "following orders" with maintaining respect and credibility in front of your team.
In this episode, I discuss this tricky situation and talk about some potential options for how to move forward and get a positive outcome... or make a change for the better!
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Show Links:
- Article: Following Orders When You Don't Believe In the Direction.
- Article: What Is Cognitive Dissonance?
Planning is an often underrated skill. The reason many people don't care about planning is because when you spend time planning, you don't feel like you're doing anything.
When you've got a big project to do, it feels like you should be getting on and delivering things, rather than wasting time planning. However, there is a reason why people say "Measure twice, cut once" and "Failing to plan is planning to fail".
In this episode, we cover the key benefits of planning, and why leaders should be doing more of it!
Show Links:
- Article: The Importance of Planning and Why Leaders Can't Ignore It.
- Article: 3 Simple Reasons Your Team is Missing Deadlines and How to Fix It.
- eBook: The Hold Your Team Accountable eBook.
It's clear that there has been an increase in employee wellbeing programs in our workplaces in recent years. This is a positive step, because a focus on mental health is definitely required, especially where we spend much of our time - at work!
However, I've also noticed that these programs will be introduced without the necessarily changes in behaviour that need to go with them. Everything else stays the same - the stress, deadlines and micromanagement.
In this episode I discuss what is required to actually make a difference in employee wellbeing, so that we make this more than just a "tick the box" exercise.
Show Links:
- Article: Employee Wellbeing: A Hollow Promise or Do We Really Mean It?
- Research: Study from the Black Dog Institute.
- Research: Statistics from Mental Health First Aid.
I believe that Thoughtful Leaders (the ones who lead intentionally and think about the impact of their behaviour on their people) actually need to focus more on building confidence than other leaders.
Why?
Because Thoughtful Leaders like you have greater empathy for and awareness of the people around them, so they tend to notice the signs if things aren't quite right. And when your team is going through a tough time, highly empathic leaders can feel like turning back, when really they need to keep going.
In this episode, I unpack this concept a bit more and give you some tips on how to build your confidence so you can be thoughtful and effective at the same time.
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Show Links:
- Article: Why Building Confidence is Critical for Thoughtful Leaders.
- Coaching Program: Leadership Confidence Coaching Program.
In this episode, I talk about the importance of consequences in the workplace.
Sounds scary? It isn't really.
Consequences don't have to be all bad, and it's not always about firing people or yelling at them. Sometimes all you need is to show the people in your team that you care, and you're watching.
Listen to find out more about how positive and negative consequences can push and pull your people to higher levels of performance.
Audiobook: If you would like some help improving the performance of your team, be sure to check out my Motivating Your Team for Improved Performance Audiobook. It has plenty of tools, techniques and ideas to help you get the best out of your team. Try it today!
Show Links:
- Resource: The Motivating Your Team Audiobook.
- Article: Why Leaders Must Drive Consequences in the Workplace.