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Regular monthly content by Repa to help leaders prime their potential, lead their team more effectively, and experience joy more often in their work.
How to develop business strategy that engages the hearts and minds of your team
Many leaders and boards are grappling with how to manage a constantly changing COVID landscape. How do you: Develop a business strategy that allows you to respond quickly to market changes? Increase engagement at a time when people are struggling with uncertainty? Galvanise your organisation towards delivering your vision despite the daily deluge of distractions? The key is to shift the way you develop strategy. Use a methodology that energises your people whilst delivering exponential growth. One of the core methodologies I use to help teams thrive and move beyond incremental results is Appreciative Inquiry. It’s a strengths based approach…
Read How to develop business strategy that engages the hearts and minds of your team4 simple strategies to define your leadership purpose
There are many types of leaders and, yet, very few of the leaders I meet have consciously chosen the type of leader they want to become. The conscious choices you make as a leader begins with why you want to lead. I came to learn this the hard way. In my corporate life, I started to feel like I wasn’t in the right job, and that perhaps I should be doing something else. Unfortunately, I wasn’t sure what this ‘something else’ was, and so, I continued working in the same environment despite my head and heart telling me otherwise. Eventually,…
Read 4 simple strategies to define your leadership purposeThe Mindful Leadership Challenge 2021
Welcome to my 2021 Mindful Leadership Challenge to celebrate Mindfulness and Compassion Week. What’s the challenge? 5 days of practical tools to create a compass to navigate uncertainty and lead your team to deliver market leading results in the new financial year. Check back here each day for a new video on a range of mindful leadership topics, and, if you’d like to be sent the daily meditations, simply contact me with your email address and I’ll ensure that they’re sent to you. Wishing you many mindful moments. Mindful Leadership Challenge Day 1: Clarity In times of crisis, it’s…
Read The Mindful Leadership Challenge 2021Mindfulness: A Valuable Tool For Leaders
Have you noticed how mindfulness has become a buzzword, with many organisations adopting mindful practices in their leadership development, and others rejecting the notion outright as eastern “woo-woo”? What exactly is mindfulness, and why is it a critical tool for leaders? I define mindfulness as being fully present in this moment, without judgement and with self-compassion. There are three critical elements of this definition: Deliberately choosing to pay attention to this moment. This requires you to make a conscious choice and often transcend your mind’s attraction to distraction. Letting go of all expectations of how this moment should be, not…
Read Mindfulness: A Valuable Tool For LeadersHow to Support Diversity in Your Team
In her work on diversity and inclusion, Juliet Bourke (AICD, 2016) found that organisations with inclusive cultures are 8 times more likely to achieve better business outcomes. In fact, when it comes to gender diversity, organisations in the top quartile of female executives are 25% more likely to have above-average profitability than companies in the fourth quartile (McKinsey, 2020). In my experience, a true increase in organisational diversity goes far beyond the hiring stage. To achieve the real business benefits of diversity and inclusion requires a cultural shift, which starts with the leadership team. The leadership team sets the strategy…
Read How to Support Diversity in Your TeamTo Change Your Results, Change Yourself
Most organisational change focuses on structure, process and systems. Even when there is a genuine intention to engage people to effect change, the majority of resources, effort and energy is concentrated on processes and systems changing, and then expecting people to adapt quickly. To create real change in an organisation, you need to start with changing the way your leaders behave, supporting them to effect a deeper personal change that is not reliant on the end result. In any change initiative, there are bound to be errors and things that don’t go to plan. This is a salient reminder that…
Read To Change Your Results, Change YourselfRest Is Not a Luxury
Every year come December, I am inundated with friends, family, and clients telling me how tired and burnt out they are. Modern workplaces and 21st century living has resulted in employees working longer hours, taking fewer holidays, and succumbing to illness when they finally do stop for their annual Christmas break. This year has been particularly taxing with working from home blurring the lines of work, family and rest. Working on demand without daily periods of rest and sleep is simply unsustainable. In the pursuit of excellence, and the rise of “hustle culture”, we have come to believe that rest…
Read Rest Is Not a LuxuryWhy choosing to lead is not enough
There are many types of leaders and, yet, very few of the leaders I meet have consciously chosen the type of leader they want to become. I believe there are 3 dimensions of leadership: Functional – an expert in a particular field, a neurosurgeon, for example Professional – a leader that manages a group of functional experts, the head of neurosurgery at a hospital would be a good example Transcendental – a leader that is known for their ability to influence large groups of people towards a common goal. A CEO of a hospital, for example A functional expert loves…
Read Why choosing to lead is not enoughHow do you get leaders to take responsibility for their team’s wellbeing?
70% of employees feel that their organisations are not doing enough to promote wellbeing in the workplace, with a lack of support from their leaders being the number one cause for professional burnout, according to a recent survey on workplace burnout by Deloitte So what can you, as a leader do to promote wellbeing and reduce feelings of burnout and overwhelm in your team? 1. Improve workplace culture Recent research shows that 1 in 3 employees do not feel comfortable taking vacation time. Not only that, but changes in workplace situations means more and more people are working from home,…
Read How do you get leaders to take responsibility for their team’s wellbeing?Be Conscious of What Drives You
Have you ever worked really hard for something in your career and experienced only relief when you achieved it? Cathy Freeman described this when she won Olympic gold at the Sydney 2000 games. That’s what you experience when your goals are not aligned with your purpose. Purpose is a confusing word that is often used to mean anything from values to intention. It’s not some lofty ideal like world peace or solving poverty either. Purpose drives performance and it’s the impact you want to have on others. One of the questions I’m asked most often from leaders I work with…
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