The Performance Inversion: When Top Performers Become the Biggest Constraint
Controversial truth: your top performers are often your biggest constraint. Not because they are underperforming. Because they are overcompe
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Coaching Skills
The best leaders coach rather than direct. These articles teach you the skills without the jargon.
Busy Work vs Breakthrough Work
When I coach managers of managers, I see the same pattern. Diaries full. Meetings that update but do not decide. Teams busy, yet the results
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The Five 1% Shifts: What Keeps Paying Off for Managers of Managers
These five amplifying shifts keep surfacing in Amplify cohorts. Different industries, same patterns. They look small. They work because they
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Why Working Harder and Longer Stops Working
When I was a young Army officer, I trained by running as fast and as far as I could until I dropped. I wore the pain like a badge. It worked
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Five Questions That Transform Feedback Into Growth (And Save Your Time)
Imagine your next team member walks into your office, bracing for feedback.
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Are you feeling emotionally disrupted or out of control?
One day you feel like you're on top of the world, in the zone, smashing it! All of a sudden, you realise that you are spinning out of contro
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What would this look like if it were easy?
I spend a lot of my time asking myself multiple "hard" questions in pursuit of being the "best business I can be" – whilst being remote.
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Are you swimming, floating or drowning?
This week, Traverse Worldwide moved from the amazing city of Lima, to Medellin in Colombia.
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Goals: 6 easy ways to improve your chances of success
One of my goals in writing this blog is to look at everyday scenarios in new ways.
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"Jump – Go Go Go!!!"
Jumping out of a perfectly good plane is something I haven’t done yet but it’s been a thing on the “almost” bucket list for a while now.
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BOXERS, SNOWBALLS, and FLOATS
What separates people who are high performers from those who succeed and then slide backward again? My view is simple – discipline.
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Needs versus wants 2.0 – re-imagined for high performance
As I work with clients on their (and my own) performance, I have been paying increasing attention to the power of the universe and my intera
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Align Your Passions With Your New Career
“I want to do something I am passionate about” – A simple thinking framework to help you brainstorm the answer to this challenge.
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Teaching old dogs new tricks
I was excited to attend the Jumpshift NZ Leadership Action Network event last week, focussed on Liberating Structures.
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Leading into the future – better
As I transitioned back to NZ from Mexico this Christmas, after a little over two years away “on the road”, I knew it was going to be tough s
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Glaciers, Dumbledore and the wrong paint choice-3 essential tips
Glaciers, Dumbledore and the wrong paint choice — 3 essential leadership tips for the future.
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Are you swimming against the current? What I realized & changed.
One of the things that have been top of mind for me during this lockdown period has been how and where I use my energy.
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Try this if you're missing watercooler conversations whilst WFH
If you're anything like the leaders I work with, you may have been struggling with creating a sense of connection amongst your team members
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As we return to work, have you considered this?
During the last few months, the internet has been overwhelmingly filled with content helping people to adapt to working in lockdown/shelter
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Employee experience is dependent on your leadership skills
The conversation that I have found myself experiencing multiple times this last week is how COVID has impacted the Employee Experience.
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Why I think "failing fast" should be called "learning quickly"
This week I'm putting the finishing touches to a six-month leadership program with an Asian based market leader in the manufacturing industr
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Why reflection is the new CrossFit (without the scandals)
This week I have been creating the opportunity for leaders to make some space for reflection.
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Does your brain get tangled when it counts? Here's 5 tips to help
We all know that feeling before we have to do something important. As a facilitator, I have faced it a couple of times myself in the last co
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Build psychological safety for your team in 5 steps
I was thrilled to receive so many requests for the SERVICE model I shared last week.
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What do you value?
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks packing up my life, dropping various possessions into friends’ attics for storage, and moving from NZ ba
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Get clear by pre-flecting
I pay attention to things that come along in threes. When I see something for the third time it, drives me to the keyboard.
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How do you deal with the employee who always brings you problems?
As a leader, much of our time can be taken up by members of the team who encounter a problem and come to us to fix it for them.
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Stop telling your team how, and starting asking this
As hybrid work becomes the norm for many companies, your team members are not the same people who headed home during the first lockdown.
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Bow and wake effect
I had several people reach out to me on my latest IG posts on @jimmybleadership this week related to my Bow and Wake post so I thought I wou
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Why high performing leaders break the ice
I was on a call recently with a group of leadership thinkers; talking about the actively futurist leader.
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Try these 3 things to optimise your lessons learned
Last Thursday we welcomed leaders from all over the world to our monthly mastermind where we discussed how "lessons learned can grow your bu
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The Downfall of Traditional New Years Resolutions And What Works 100 x Better
Why Resolutions Fail and the Power of Embracing RE-solutions for Achieving Your Goals
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Using the PVC Model to Support Your Team During Peak Period Overload
The middle of the year can be when teams really start to get busy. Whether it be the result of team members on leave and others picking up t
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