Accountability Conversations
All organizations need the commitment of their people to achieve performance and results. As leaders, you are often measured by how well you motivate your team members to keep their commitments and deliver.
Are you listening?
Most of us know that listening is a valuable skill. It’s a key ingredient for strengthening relationships, making good decisions, managing conflict and building and empowering teams.
Empowerment
This short article clarifies the meaning and importance of empowerment, and outlines five actions you can take to make it work for your business.
Resilience
Our fast-moving, disruptive world demands personal and organisational resilience. To prepare for the inevitable challenges ahead, this article helps you to develop three foundational characteristics of personal resilience.
Give Yourself a Break
LMP Partner, Sharon Toye, outlines the benefits of self-compassion and a non-judgmental attitude toward our experiences of inadequacy and failure.
Team Leader
Most work in your organisation is done in teams. The success of these teams largely determines the success of your organisation. If you lead a team, you therefore have one of the most important jobs in your company. Lynn Harris provides 7 recommendations to be a great team leader.
On Purpose
Why do you choose to lead? And why should people follow you? In this article, Lynn Harris explores these profound questions, and gives you a 3-step process to create your own leadership purpose.
Avoiding Rabbit Holes
Effective team meetings are one key domain of team health. In this article, Sharon Toye explores how healthy high-performing teams know how to make effective decisions at pace, and how, in doing this, they need to either avoid rabbit holes or get out of them as quickly as possible.
Disrupt & Rethink
Our ability to disrupt and adapt the way we think and behave has become a leadership essential. In this article, Lynn Harris uses 3 apparent contradictions that challenge us to think differently: The Joy of Being Wrong, The Power of Inverse Charisma and The Strength of Uncertain Conviction.
Productive Disagreement
Productive disagreement is foundational to team and organisational performance. In this article, Lynn Harris explores 4 challenges that make productive disagreement difficult and 4 enabling conditions to overcome these difficulties and achieve the results you want.
Influencing with Agility
As leaders, we need the resilience to navigate our way through disruptive times and develop the skills and flexibility to influence others in ways that inspire, build trust and create change. In this article, Tom Costello provides 5 top tips to strengthen your influencing agility.
Power of Doubt
In this article, Lynn Harris challenges the established wisdom that leaders need to be confident and certain, and instead, encourages leaders to embrace a power of doubt mindset as a basis for better decision-making and creativity.
Caterpillars into butterflies: leading with a digital mindset
At Leadership Mindset Partners, we support leaders across industries as they confront the twin challenges of both navigating digital disruption and delivering digital transformation. In this article, Sharon Toye explores how to build a digital mindset to take advantage of the exciting opportunities provided by digital transformation.
5 Principles of Deliberate Leadership Practice
Practice is expected and formalized in sports and the arts – why not leadership? In this article, Lynn Harris explores the importance of developing a practice mindset and creating deliberate leadership practice.
Truth-Telling
In this article, Lynn Harris explores the damage done by a lack of truth-telling in organisations and the skills needed to have honest, constructive conversations.
12 Tips for Productive Meetings
Most managers and leaders spend too much time running or attending meetings. In this article, Lynn Harris provides 12 practical tips to make your meetings more productive and worthwhile.
How Leaders and their Teams can Stop Executive Hubris
In this article, Sharon Toye and Jonathan Mackey explore how to build a culture of critical thinking and humility that can spare companies from the ravages of excessive CEO confidence.
The Acceleration Factor
Accelerating teams don’t just get results more quickly — they gain the proficiency that allows them to take on new kinds of challenges. In this article, Sharon Toye and Colin Price explore how team performance depends on the ability to accelerate — to operate at an increasing pace, doing in weeks what once took months, and doing in days what once took weeks.