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Team Health Indicators – Trust

Over the next few weeks I thought we could consider how healthy our work teams are. And I’ll start off with trust as an indicator. Before reflecting on our level

Dealing with Burn-Out at Work

There was a lot of feedback on the previous article on burnout, some readers asked really pertinent questions that will be addressed in a dedicated article as we finish off

Leading Leaders

The dream team for any leader has to be a team of professionally mature individuals who can be relied upon to deliver with minimal supervision. But that same dream team

If commitment means being focused on

If commitment means being focused on, dedicated and loyal to something, then team commitment would be the extent to which our behavior shows dedication and loyalty to our team. If

Drivers of Professional Growth

Previously we looked at the value of psychometric tests in employment decision-making, whether that was to assess the level of ‘fit’ between the job and candidate profiles at recruitment, or

Managing Burn-Out as a Team

As we wrap up on burn-out, we look at ways the c-suite can tackle this phenomenon as a team, instead of one outspoken individual admitting burn-out at the risk of

Emotional Intelligence in the C-Suite

You know why this subject is coming up? Because the way you feel about me shouldn’t affect the quality of support you give me in terms of our role relationships.

Empty Promises from the Executive

We know integrity and accountability are integral to leadership, yet we often encounter employee grievances and disputes that arose out of various empty promises made by members of the leadership

Deferential is a Supported Culture

In the last instalment the subject of overly deferential behavior was discussed with a view to helping the leader firstly be more aware of the dynamic and secondly identify practicable

Career Ladder vs Career Lattice

It used to be a linear process – complete a tertiary qualification, get that first job at the bottom of your industry career ladder, work up towards the highest job

Burning Out?

I tried to access current statistics relating to wellness in the workplace, specifically burnout, and found, among others, some work done especially around the time of Covid-19, with emphasis on

Build or Buy?

Talking specifically about senior roles, there is always this question around whether to appoint internal candidates or recruit from the open market. As with all pertinent conversations, there are good

Acting Appointments

Let’s agree on the definition – an acting appointment is where an employee is given a temporary assignment to perform the duties of a higher position, and this employee is

Accountability in the Team

Over the past few weeks’ content has been based on the Five Behaviors® profile system, which itself is based on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. As

Team Behaviours Results

If you have been following over the past few weeks, we have been exploring the team building model made popular by Patrick Lencioni through his book “The Five Dysfunctions of

Team Health – Conflict

Have you ever used psychometric profiles to manage conflict? Whether we express some of form of fight or flight in how we deal with conflict, we each have our own

Team Health Indicators – Trust

Over the next few weeks I thought we could consider how healthy our work teams are. And I’ll start off with trust as an indicator. Before reflecting on our level

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