Wise leaders know to fix these three things before expecting trust and collaboration in their team. Purpose: Trust has flat-lined in recent months, thanks largely to the lack of physical interaction. Plus the small detail that this pandemic has massively damaged the global economy threatening jobs and business survival. And without trust, there’s no chance of collaboration (in spite of all the wonderful tools to support…

Nothing gets done in a single silo or department anymore. Constant collaboration and trust are at a premium because everything worth doing is always led by cross-functional teams. Now, the essential foundations of Collaboration and Trust are deteriorating. As leaders, we need to act now and stop the slide. …

Your brain is magnificent. It’s also limited. And it’s also a gas guzzler! There is so much going on in the world around you right at this moment, that you cannot possibly, consciously process all that information. It would just be totally overwhelming. To cope and save essential gas (energy) for other things, every…

(And Get Your Own Back!) Encourage I’m going to take a wild guess here that your work and your life has become more demanding. Furthermore, I can be pretty certain that you feel under-valued. I’ll even dare to suggest that your pay is not the main issue in feeling under-valued, rather it’s because it seems…

Part 1 of a series on “How to Play Politiks Without Losing Your Soul — More clients than not tell me that they don’t like to play politics at work. Indeed, most work politics have a terrible reputation. But they are a fact of working life. So you had better get wise and know how to play the game and yes, you can do so…

Coaching a colleague, a team member or anyone you know well is a challenging situation. For example, a manager usually conducts the performance review for their staff focusing on their performance in the job and team which may lead to a recommendation about salary or promotions. …