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25 May , 202030 May , 2020

What i have learnt from facilitating the Everest Simulation for Executive learners.

Covid-19 lockdown has provided me with more opportunities than normal to think. As someone paid to assist professional managers learn, I’ve taken this opportunity to reconsider my own learning journey and to reconsider when in my career “training” would have given me real insight not gained from “experience”… and then to apply this to my executive engagements and try to rethink how I would have approached my own personal learning.… Read more

17 December , 201917 December , 2019

Business teaching on Netflix

I’ve recently watched two HBO productions that had me thinking : The Inventor, a documentary about the Theranos scandal, and Chernobyl, a mini-series of the worst accident in nuclear history, but which captured a basic truth about why it happened. “The Chernobyl disaster was more about lies, deceit and a rotting political system than it was about bad engineering or abysmal management and training.”… Read more

17 September , 20189 August , 2018

How to transition into a leadership role

Recent extensive research has revealed a disproportionate percentage of executives were unprepared to inspire and lead themselves and others to achieve higher levels of performance in an increasingly complex and demanding global marketplace. Powerful executives are those who consistently produce excellent results while maintaining personal energy and enhancing their relationships as well as the skill and commitment of those they lead.… Read more

3 September , 20189 August , 2018

4 reasons why leaders fail

I see often that Companies move younger employees with less experience into executive roles faster than ever. And they don’t always prepare these leaders for what they will find at the top. Its my role with SMU to assist leaders prepare for their future roles.

That’s just one reason 50-70% of executives fail within the first 18 months of promotion into an executive role, either from within or coming from outside the organization(Of those, about 3% “fail spectacularly,” while nearly 50% “quietly struggle.”).… Read more

30 July , 20186 June , 2018

5 disfunctions of a team (5) Inattention to results

You’ve inherited what you consider a dysfunctional team, but what makes you think they are dysfunctional? We’re on our last leg now. The team trust one another, have productive meetings where positive conflict is mandated, share commitments and hold each other accountable… but a lack of focus on results can ruin a happy group.

Patrick Lencioni created a very understandable model about how and why teams are dysfunctional and how you can assist them to function better. … Read more