A new Leader’s first step…

Leadership is a great strategic topic, but I don’t read too much on how to start being a leader, especially for newly appointed managers who are expected to quickly become leaders.

If you are newly hired or a newly promoted leader what are the first couple of steps you should do to start leading.

We all know that you need to find a way to build rapport or empathy with your team… and at the start its really tough to do, especially if you don’t know what to do.… Read more

8 Critical things to do, and don’t do, in your first hour at work

I am a morning person, I always aimed to get to work early, before anyone else, and considered the first hour at work precious. It was a time for me to think and plan, to consider and reflect, before the rest of the team came to work and started bombarding me with e-mails, requests, questions, meetings, reports… work.

I believe one of the reasons I was successful was that I took this first hour as my time to step back from the day to day and reflect how I could be most useful for that day or that week..  … Read more