Leaders who make people feel safe help them perform at their peak. In the workplace, where team members change over time, you need to constantly work on maintaining a culture of trust.
10 Keys to Great Online Meetings
This is an excerpt from Lauren Parsons’ book “Pitfalls and Positives of Remote Work: How to maintain a thriving connected team even when you’re spread apart.” You can download a complimentary copy here. 1. HAVE FEWER MEETINGS First, decide whether you really need a meeting. If there’s no clear purpose, skip it. Find a better way. If you do meet, … Read More
The DERT Model of Leadership
I’ve created this simple, yet powerful DERT model of leadership. Yes, I’ll admit that phonetically, it may not sound like the best model, but we have been talking about cultivating the ‘good soil’ as the right workplace culture, haven’t we?
Do your colleagues confuse you?
An article by Getting a Grip founder, Robyn Pearce I had a really interesting discussion recently with a group of highly dedicated social workers doing great work with some of our most disadvantaged people in South Auckland. They were fascinated to learn what a difference it can make when we understand our differing ways of processing information. At a macro … Read More
Boosting Energy and Effectiveness Within Your Team
The environment we’re in shapes how we perform and how we feel. Your staff may not be professional athletes, but their performance certainly depends on their physical and mental state.
7 Common Recognition Pitfalls to Avoid
Immediate specific feedback is one of the best leadership strategies, parenting strategies and relationship strategies available because of its power to reinforce behaviour and boost motivation.
How To Manage Time: Eight Top Time Tips
’No’ is your most powerful time management tool. When we know what our values are, and when we have a clear set of goals in all areas of our lives, we’re in a much stronger position to politely and appropriately say ‘no’ to potential time-stealers and less relevant activities.
Positives and Pitfalls of Remote Work
This is a short excerpt from Lauren Parsons’ book “Pitfalls and Positives of Remote Work: How to maintain a thriving connected team even when you’re spread apart.”
THRIVE TV 081 – Are you digging in the wrong place? with John Polley
Discover how our bodies reflect our mental, emotional and physical history, recent and distant past, how issues manifest in one place, but are created elsewhere, and what we can do practically, to find the right solutions to overcome problems.
THRIVE TV 080 – The Slow Revolution with Carl Honoré
Discover the power of slow in a fast world, what the slow movement is really all about and how to embrace it, and how slowing down can exponentially improve relationships, connection, productivity and wellbeing.