Develop Your Own Personal Trademark
At the start of the year many of us would have formulated new years’ resolutions – things we want to do better in the coming 12 months. How are they going so far? Often, keeping those resolutions can be a challenge. Why? Because we tend to focus our energies on an outcome, rather than focusing […]
How to strengthen your resilience muscle
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.9″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] Has anyone been feeling like Andy Dufresne from the Shawshank Redemption recently? Imprisoned, slowly chiselling away, but never losing hope that a better future awaits us. In a conversation with Red, Andy states; “Hope is a good thing, maybe the […]
Want to make your team happier? Fix your meetings
Once upon a time, I was part of a team that disliked meetings so much we went to pretty extreme measures to cut them short. At this company, we were spread regionally and only met once every month or two. Those days together contained highly valuable time that could have been utilised really well. Instead, […]
Is Your Team Working in Silos?
Often in our line of work, when we go in to meet with CEOs, managing directors and business owners to help them improve performance, we will ask: ‘What is your pain point at the moment?’ or ‘What is currently holding you back? In many instances, leaders nominate a lack of collaboration or the often-referred-to ‘working […]
Around the square: The behaviours we walk past are the behaviours we accept.
One cold June night, as playing coach of a senior football team, I was getting frustrated by the lack of discipline and poor attitude of the team halfway through the training session. I gave them my observation on training and said ‘look, training isn’t great tonight, let’s jog a cool down lap around the centre […]
What does your team reward?
Last night I was tempted away from the Block, the Bachelor and some other cooking show to find myself tuning into the 7.30 report and was captured by a story around Australian cricket. Of particular interest, was the current culture and what lead the players to tamper with the ball in Cape Town at the […]
Starting at Leading Teams
Gavin Mahony, who started with Leading Teams in late 2017, reflects on his journey so far and what it has been like to join our team.