Alignment

Many people who play golf have never taken a lesson! They get introduced to the game by a friend or family member and learn to play by going along to the golf course and playing.
When you learn this way, by instinct as it were, you develop a muscle memory…

It is tempting to give positive feedback without preparation, after all, it’s a nice thing to be doing. When you prepare, your positive feedback enables sustainable behaviours. Remember, give positive feedback in public. § Be specific § Be sincere §…

How Shared Situational Awareness Can Make or Break the Organization

What is Shared Situational Awareness and what you can do about getting it. An audio enabled presentation.

I appreciate that many of you reading this may not have ever played golf, for you some alternatives, perhaps liken the tight grip of a golf club to: the tight grip of the reins of a horse holding your dog on a very short leash holding on tight to your child's…

There's a wealth of evidence that having goals and setting them is an important process. And that goals are best considered as performance goals rather than outcome goals - principally because a performance goal is something that the individual can be in…

Pull Mode, unlike push mode, is about leadership and paying attention to growth and improvement. Rather than focusing attention on problems to be solved or fixed or overcome, in Pull Mode we take time to clearly envision our future and allow the goal to pull…

The stresses of Push Mode, always making things happen and forever coming up against obstacles and ‘time-wasters’, causes many people to fall into Drift Mode rather than Pull Mode. Drift Mode is quite different to Pull Mode, somewhat ‘New-Agey’ in…

This mythical creature in Dr Doolittle provides a metaphor for how many leaders feel about leadership. They are in Push Mode for themselves, driving the agenda and encountering resistance of their ‘followers’ who have to be pulled, some suggest dragged…

Do you take pride in hard work? Do you brag about working more than 50 hours a week? Do you use ToDo lists? Do you think that in order for things to happen, that you have to make them happen? If you answer yes to most or all, you’re in Push Mode. Do you…