Recently I read a very powerful and insightful whitepaper by Nick Petrie from the Centre of Creative Leadership. What struck me as I read through the pages of the trends in Leadership Development was the term, putting “Development” back into Leadership Development. LeadershipHQ are consistently researching, reading and reflecting on our methods, content and most…
Thank you to Tony Wiggins for this post. View the original here: https://tonywiggins.wordpress.com/2012/04/28/leadershiphq-leadership-challenges-and-insights/ Sonia McDonald was proud to facilitate and hold the first Leadership Effectiveness Group (LEG) for Brisbane Leaders to discuss their purpose, challenges and insights around leadership and talent. The LEG was well attended by practitioners from the building and construction, consulting, finance, government…
Team productivity, confidence, and self-reliance come from many sources, but the primary influence is the atmosphere created by leadership. Employees are given the reign and trust to complete tasks they are proficient in, to speak out when issues arise, and to add a new perspective to projects underway. This doesn’t happen on its own, but…
Finding solutions to productivity and leadership in Brisbane is simple with the services provided by LeadershipHQ, the region’s premier leadership partner with organizing and driving your company’s personal development and strategy. With mindful and conscientious intervention in our consulting and client relationships, using a one-on-one hands-on approach as well as practical applications of neuroscience, businesses…
Life is full of conflicting priorities, or at least modern life is. We want it all, we expect it all, and the world around us also expects us to be it all. Or that’s how it seems. We often talk about leadership balance in terms of work life and home life. But there’s more to leadership balance than…
The weight of leadership derives from many elements when in a management position, but one traditional point of view is the leader’s expectation to take risks – either real or perceived. These expectations come from their own bosses as well as peers and employees, but the simple matter is, it is not risking the leader…
Henry Ford was right on the money when he famously said “If you always do what you’ve always done you’ll always get what you’ve always got.” Ford had no idea of the innovation that was to come in his lifetime and beyond, yet his words continue to have relevance decades after his death. In any…
It was a long and stressful week. I was tired. I wasn’t sleeping and I knew I wasn’t operating at my best. My pre-frontal cortex was really tired and all I could focus on was negative. Something the brain does really well when it is exhausted and under pressure. It was at that moment I…
Where is your focus when you arrive at work? Are you thinking as a leader or manager? One of the main factors that distinguish a leader from a manager, is that that leaders lead by inspiration, whereas managers will coordinate people and tasks. From time to time, however, as leaders, we can find ourselves taking…
“What we think, we become.” – The Buddha The decision to lead people, whether it happens to be in the workplace, the army, as a volunteer, or in some other setting is a significant responsibility. Capable, intelligent, driven leaders just do not come along very often. Of course, most of us have had the joy…