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
Read article →The best leaders coach rather than direct. These articles teach you the skills without the jargon.
Controversial truth: your top performers are often your biggest constraint. Not because they are underperforming. Because they are overcompe
Read article →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
Read article →These five amplifying shifts keep surfacing in Amplify cohorts. Different industries, same patterns. They look small. They work because they
Read article →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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Imagine your next team member walks into your office, bracing for feedback.
Read article →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
Read article →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.
Read article →This week, Traverse Worldwide moved from the amazing city of Lima, to Medellin in Colombia.
Read article →One of my goals in writing this blog is to look at everyday scenarios in new ways.
Read article →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.
Read article →What separates people who are high performers from those who succeed and then slide backward again? My view is simple – discipline.
Read article →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
Read article →“I want to do something I am passionate about” – A simple thinking framework to help you brainstorm the answer to this challenge.
Read article →I was excited to attend the Jumpshift NZ Leadership Action Network event last week, focussed on Liberating Structures.
Read article →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
Read article →Glaciers, Dumbledore and the wrong paint choice — 3 essential leadership tips for the future.
Read article →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.
Read article →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
Read article →During the last few months, the internet has been overwhelmingly filled with content helping people to adapt to working in lockdown/shelter
Read article →The conversation that I have found myself experiencing multiple times this last week is how COVID has impacted the Employee Experience.
Read article →This week I'm putting the finishing touches to a six-month leadership program with an Asian based market leader in the manufacturing industr
Read article →This week I have been creating the opportunity for leaders to make some space for reflection.
Read article →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
Read article →I was thrilled to receive so many requests for the SERVICE model I shared last week.
Read article →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
Read article →I pay attention to things that come along in threes. When I see something for the third time it, drives me to the keyboard.
Read article →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.
Read article →As hybrid work becomes the norm for many companies, your team members are not the same people who headed home during the first lockdown.
Read article →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
Read article →I was on a call recently with a group of leadership thinkers; talking about the actively futurist leader.
Read article →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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Why Resolutions Fail and the Power of Embracing RE-solutions for Achieving Your Goals
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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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