Self Leadership blog

In my experience as a leadership consultant and facilitator, there are five vital ingredients for a highly effective leadership teams, and the lack of any of these leads to dysfunctional cultures and performance. The first vital ingredient is trust, and I’m not talking about predictive or affective trust, the sort where team members like each other but deep cognitive trust. High performing leadership teams have a trust built from knowing each other’s strengths and … [Read more...]

I am proud to announce that 'Self Leadership - How to Become a More Successful, Efficient, and Effective Leader from the Inside Out' (McGraw Hill) is now available in India. Self Leadership India I will be in India to promote Self Leadership this month at the World HR Congress and I will be speaking at the World Coaching Congress, February 16th at the Taj … [Read more...]

A belated Happy New Year to you for 2013 and an early ‘Gong Xi Fa Cai’ for the year of the snake. What will 2013 bring for you? How are you doing with your resolutions? 2012 was a turbulent year for myself and many people I spoke to; but, despite predictions, the Euro did not collapse and the world didn’t end! So it is with relief and renewed optimism that we can enter 2013. 2013 Year of the Snake This 2013 year of the water Snake is meant for steady progress and attention to detail. The snake is the enigmatic, intuitive, … [Read more...]

To be authentic is to be genuine, to be real, and to be original. The opposite of authenticity is to be false or an imitation. Authentic people are true to themselves and their principles and don’t feel need to judge others or fit in to be popular. I hope you will agree that being authentic is a positive character trait that we should strive for, but how do we become authentic when we are influenced from birth by our parents, our teachers and our culture? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet a father (Polonius) gives this advice to his son (Laertes) before he … [Read more...]