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Greg Mitchell

How's Your Thinking?

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How's Your Thinking?
Have you ever had the experience where you've been working or otherwise interacting with someone and they've responded to something that's happened in a way that is surprising to you? Perhaps their reaction has been so different to what you anticipated that you've asked yourself what planet they've come from! I've seen this a lot over my career, wi...
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3 Simple Ways to Stop Negative Self-Talk

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3 Simple Ways to Stop Negative Self-Talk
​ We all get knock-backs occasionally. As the old saying goes, life is not all wine and roses (or beer and skittles for that matter). At these times, it can be a natural tendency for some to slip into a negative mode of thinking and self-talk: "Why does bad stuff always happen to me?", "I made a mess of that", "My life sucks", "I'm a failure/impost...
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Greg Mitchell

Leadership and the Value of Insight

Leadership and the Value of Insight
​ I've spent a lot of time over the years in the leadership development space - as a learner, facilitator, coach, avid reader and observer.  One of the things I've learned along the way is that much of the literature and research in this area is focused on seeking answers to questions such as "What is it that constructive leaders DO?", and "Ho...
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Greg Mitchell

6 Ways to P*ss Off Your Staff - Guaranteed!

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6 Ways to P*ss Off Your Staff - Guaranteed!
One of my coaching clients mentioned to me the other day that he was working on some "anti-goals". Rather than focusing on what he wants to achieve in his personal and professional life, he's finding it more helpful to make a list of what he doesn't want (eg. "a job where I have no time for family", "a job with pay that doesn't give me enough incom...
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Greg Mitchell

"She's great at her job, but..."

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"She's great at her job, but..."
On at least three separate occasions over the last couple of weeks I've had clients make comments to me along those lines, and it's frankly getting annoying. Please don't tell me "S he's great at her job [Finance Manager by the way] , but terrible at managing people ". Please don't tell me " He's great at his job [Business Development Manager] , bu...
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Greg Mitchell

Conquering the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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Conquering the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team model (above) was developed by Patrick Lencioni, author of the best-selling book of the same name and founder and president of The Table Group, a US-based management consulting firm.  The model, drawn from Lencioni's experiences in executive team development, identifies those attributes that tend to be apparent ...
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Why do the good employees leave? Engaging and keeping the “keepers”

Why do the good employees leave? Engaging and keeping the “keepers”
Have you ever wondered why it's the good people in your organisation who move on – yet the "dead wood" effectively quit and stay? Recognising and rewarding talent in your organisation – and engaging those people so that they want to help you succeed in business – is a critical competitive advantage that you possess and should harness. Step 1 is, of...
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Greg Mitchell

How Strong Are the Links in Your Management Chain?

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How Strong Are the Links in Your Management Chain?
​I'm sure we've all had the experience at one time or another of seeing apparently sound decisions fall apart at the point of implementation, or otherwise proceed but result in unintended consequences.  This can of course happen in connection with any type of decision, and staff-related decisions are certainly no exception. Indeed, training in...
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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Dependent

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Dependent
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviours, and their impact upon business and organisation performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest and fina...
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Greg Mitchell

Measuring People Management Performance - “Who Cares?” and “Oh Sh*t!”

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Measuring People Management Performance - “Who Cares?” and “Oh Sh*t!”
​Just as it's critical to business success to measure and analyse revenue and profit, investment performance, and monitor the costs of production or service delivery, so it is critical to measure the outcomes and processes associated with managing people.  This applies regardless of the size of the business. After all, employment-related costs...
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Greg Mitchell

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Power

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Power
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviours, and their impact upon business and organisation performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest article ...
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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Affiliative

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Affiliative
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviour, and their impact upon business and organisational performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest article...
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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Approval

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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Approval
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviour, and their impact upon business and organisational performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest article...
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Greg Mitchell

Surviving the Growing Pains! – Managing Staff in a Period of Growth

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Surviving the Growing Pains! – Managing Staff in a Period of Growth
One of the common features of many of the businesses we come into contact with is that they are experiencing a period of rapid growth.  They have a proven product or service, they're doing the right thing by their customers and they're reaping the rewards of their efforts – terrific! But life is not always wine and roses as they say, and ...
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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Competitive

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Competitive
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviour, and their impact upon business and organisational performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest article...
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Focus on Leadership and Culture: Self-Actualising

Focus on Leadership and Culture: Self-Actualising
In a previous article, we introduced the Human Synergistics Circumplex™, a proven framework to measure, report, discuss and better understand individual and collective human behaviour, and their impact upon business and organisational performance (refer: Catching Smoke: A Proven Framework for Addressing Culture and Leadership ). This latest article...
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Setting Expectations: A further key to achieving Success through People

Setting Expectations: A further key to achieving Success through People
Recently we've been taking a closer look at several elements of our exclusive 8 Elements to Success through People© model (to date we've covered Clear Vision and Strategy, Effective Leadership and Recruiting Right). This post looks at another key component of the model – Setting Expectations – what it's all about and how to achieve it. "Don't lower...
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Recruiting Right: Why It's Important and Top Tips

Recruiting Right: Why It's Important and Top Tips
In our first couple of blogs on the 8 Elements to Success thtough people we've taken a look at what we call the Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200" elements of our exclusive 8 Elements to Success through People© model - Clear Vision and Strategy and Effective Leadership. This blog looks at another key component of the model – Recruiting Right – an...
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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Effective Leadership

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Effective Leadership
"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, become more, you are a leader " John Quincy Adams In the first blog, we considered the importance of every business/organisation having a Clear Vision and Strategy. Indeed, it is in our experience so important to have a Clear Vision and Strategy that we refer to it as one of the tw...
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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Clear Vision and Strategy

Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect $200: Clear Vision and Strategy
"The only th ing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision" Helen Keller As we rapidly head toward the end of 2016 and begin to plan for 2017, it's a good time to remind ourselves of the importance of every business/organisation having a Clear Vision and Strategy. Indeed, it is in our experience so important that we refer to Clear Vision...
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