Can Accountability Thrive Amidst Bureaucracy? In a recent blog I shared the challenge a large insurance firm client of mine was facing in resetting accountability across their organisation. Normalising personal ownership and collective responsibility across complex,...
Can You Diagnose the Problem? It can be hard to know where to begin. You know that issues with accountability are limiting progress and enabling underperformance. You see that it’s making the team fragile as you navigate the uncertainty and disruption of a...
Can Accountability Culture Work From Home? The kitchen bench is my ‘new desk’, workout gear my ‘new work wardrobe’ and helping my daughter with her Grade 8 maths my ‘new brain break’. Welcome to the ‘new normal’ of working from home. The challenge with this – no, one...
Please team, can I have some more? As the Decade of Disruption continues to live up to its name, successful leaders, teams and organizations are asking what’s making and keeping them fragile so they can meet the challenges and maximise the opportunities in front of...
Can you Architect Accountability? I was working with the Executive team of a large insurance firm recently on resetting accountability. The CEO has recognised that the legal requirement for accountability that has swept the financial services industry is barrelling...
Breaking the Tyranny of Micromanaging What does it feel like to be micromanaged? This was a question I asked a group of senior leaders from a Saudi-based energy company in our masterclass last week. ‘Demotivating’ ‘Undermines your confidence’ ‘Frustrating’ ‘Shows a...
The Accountability Reset I wrote about accountability in a blog last year and have done a deep dive into it over the summer break. Why am I interested? Because it’s often what makes us fragile that blocks our progress to becoming AntiFragile. And often what makes us...
Are You Ready To Play a Bigger Game? Have you noticed what’s it’s like to work with people you like? Communication is clearer and smoother; the work seems to take less effort and gets done more quickly and when things don’t go to plan – which will inevitably happen at...
5 ways to dial up accountability with your team Struggling with accountability in your team? You’re not alone. But there are a few simple ways you can drive authentic engagement. My two adolescent daughters went back to school last week after more than 6-months...
Brain-based Leadership – the smart way to lead Leadership can feel pretty hit and miss. Sometimes it ‘works’ and sometimes it doesn’t, and whilst it has been the topic of thousands of studies, it is still widely acknowledged as one of the least...
Your Team Is Dysfunctional – It’s Ok… Whether we like it or not, all teams are potentially dysfunctional. Why? Because they are made up of fallible, perfectly-imperfect human beings – like you and me! And whilst each of us knows that working...
Getting Match-Fit for 2022 It’s amazing the lengths we’ll go to avoid the things we don’t want to face. Here are some examples I’ve seen and experienced recently … A conversation where the one thing that needs to be addressed to move the whole thing...
