Shadow Coaching - the curious rusty object at the bottom of your Leadership Development toolkit

Shadow Coaching - the curious rusty object at the bottom of your Leadership Development toolkit

So many important jobs make use of OBSERVATION as a way of guaranteeing the quality, especially when lives and livelihoods are at stake. And the observer is a trusted expert - someone who can be relied upon to maintain both quality and safety of people doing the role day in, day out.

So why don’t we see Leaders being observed, whilst they lead?

Living and Leading ‘Above The Line’ – how to step away from anger, worrying what others think of you, and needing to win

On Thursday 23rd January 2020  a new book will be launched around the globe.

Nothing remarkable there – books get launched all the time, but this release is more meaningful to me because I have a personal connection with the authors, Stephen & Mara Klemich. They taught me what it means to live Above The Line, through their Heartstyles philosophy, and set me on my own journey of self-discovery.

Workplace Wellbeing options are only half of the solution - here's the other half:

When an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins’


As Wellbeing / Mental Health conversations continue to become louder, and organisations devote more time and resources to creating strategies, plans and choices to improve the wellbeing of their employees, I’m left pondering a question:

Q. What effect is the vast array of options and the pressure to ‘Be Well’ having on employees?

Why colleagues from other countries can be so hard to work with....

Bridge the culture gap in your organisation - closer teamwork using the four principles of humanity to accelerate performance

 

Working in a global organisation, integrating people from different nationalities, can bring its own challenges. The way that diverse nationalities come together to lead, influence, persuade each other has a huge impact on the successful delivery of your end product or service to the customer. 

Leaders and Managers Must Be Watched.................

If you are a leader, a manager or in any position of authority, would you be courageous enough to have someone observe you working?

 

Well in one sense leaders are already being observed, by the people around them. From the moment we wake up in the morning people are continually forming judgments about our actions, what we say, our behaviours, and how we make them feel. This level of observation simply becomes more relevant in the workplace.

Annual Appraisal Time – effective performance appraisal tactics for Remote Leaders

Appraisal time for busy managers and leaders often brings extra work and pressure. The pressure to have potentially difficult conversations with employees to tackle behaviour and improve performance. For regional and area managers who work remotely from their team members, perhaps only meeting face-to-face on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis, appraisal time can represent even greater challenges. Building a deep enough understanding of your employee’s performance, to be able to quantify their appraisal grade within the context of popular ‘forced-ranking’ systems, can bring additional pressure.

 Here at www.regionalmanagerdevelopment.com we have compiled our favourite tactics for handling appraisals and reviews when leaders and team members spend much of the year apart, and come together infrequently for the review:

You're Left Alone To Run Your Region - Paradise or Purgatory ?

Have you ever managed a distant region, well away from the gaze of Head Office ?

You diligently dial-in to the weekly conference call to share your numbers, ‘highlights’ and ‘lowlights’ – so that, as long as the operation runs smoothly and the region turns in decent numbers, you are empowered to ‘get on with it’.