Explaining Solution Focus to an insurance actuary
My colleague Promod Sharma of Taxevity* is an insurance actuary. He wanted to hear via a typical client story about how I personally use the Solution Focus approach to help support… Read more »
Tag Archives: leadership
Ten Views on Leadership. What’s Your’s?
My colleague, Mark McKergow (and his colleague, Helen Bailey) will be publishing a book on Host Leadership* which got me thinking about the vast number of views on leadership. Here’s… Read more »
How to Have Monkey-Free Meetings. A Better Questions Cheat Sheet
How do we be a solutions provider and a leader / influencer in meetings? You didn’t think there were so many better solutions-oriented questions to ask about a meeting, did you?… Read more »
How to build leadership and capacity in NFP orgs
The not–for-profit sector is a large employment sector. It’s important to economies. It does things neither government or the private sector can do. With a few notable exceptions, it… Read more »
Six ways to banish monkeys from meetings
It’s a productivity issue, not just a matter of either bursting blood vessels or falling asleep over time-wasting meetings. But first, you know these meeting behaviours, don’t you? Still, win-win,… Read more »
Leaders: 12 ways to ask better questions in 2013
Wondering why last year, good things happened but your performance was just ‘OK’? Was it because many of the things that needed to change remained unchanged? Wondering how to leverage… Read more »
How not to handle stress
Here’s a way to make a difficult situation worse. I came across a web page titled, “Work related stress – together we can tackle it”. What do you think is wrong with this typical to-do list?
4 ways NFPs learn from the perils of bad strategy and lack of clarity
Management professor Richard Rumelt asserts that bad strategy abounds in organizations. Former CEO John Bell asserts clarity via strategic plans captured in one page. Not much to disagree with on… Read more »