Leading Change, One Conversation at a Time
September 14, 2010 by Di
Filed under communication, leadership
Business is fundamentally an extended conversation. Whether you’re speaking with your boss, team members, colleagues or direct reports, conversations shape what gets done.
As a leader, you carry a core responsibility to engineer conversations that foster clarity, cooperation, creativity and a connection to company values.
Choose Success
July 21, 2010 by Di
Filed under leadership, motivation
Guest Post from Barbara Hofmeister…
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“The little girl was standing tiptoe on the old brown sofa that served as her bed at night. She pressed her cheek against the window pane trying to look down the five stories to the busy street below. But as much as she craned her head, their little attic room was too high up and the window too small to
see what was going on below. She signed and slipped down again behind the kitchen table. She really wished her mother would be home to keep her company and help her with her homework. But Mom was still at work and when she finally came home she would be much too tired to be any fun.
Since they had fled East Germany life had changed dramatically. Nobody had time for her anymore and she had left all her friends behind. No more roaming the countryside with her German Sheppard, no more feeding and teasing the chickens with her best friend Christine, no more climbing fences
and trees with her cousins. No more beautiful pink little girls room, no more warm kitchen with Mummy cooking her favorite dinner, no more laughter with Grandma who could tell such lovely stories. There seemed to be nothing anymore…
The Truth About Motivation
April 6, 2010 by Di
Filed under change leadership, change management, motivation, performance management
Most business leaders have lost sight of what motivates people at work. In fact, some companies haven’t updated their management practices in years, which means they’re incapable of creating high-performance teams.
Companies continue to ignore the obvious: Offering incentives and rewards is less effective than tapping into truly meaningful intrinsic motivation. Leaders operate on old assumptions about motivation despite a wealth of well-documented scientific evidence.
Think or Sink: The one choice that changes everything
January 19, 2010 by Di
Filed under change leadership, change management, coaching, leadership
What if you could get anything that you wanted without having to change your circumstances? What if you could master your mind so that it would actually alter your experience? What if you could be happy and stress-free regardless of what was going on around you? What if 2010 could be your greatest year ever because you discovered the ONE choice that changes everything?
Wouldn’t you be even the teeniest bit interested? 
Relax, Don’t Worry: The Brain Science of Productivity
December 17, 2009 by Di
Filed under goals, leadership, performance management, productivity
Everyone you meet these days is overworked and out of time. In our tech-enhanced world, we have more timesaving helpers and systems than ever before.
Relax Your Way to Wealth
RELAX – wealth is on the way …
Now that I have ventured into the world of publishing, I frequently have the opportunity to get an advanced look at new information products.
From time to time, new titles grab my attention, like this one I’d like to share with you.
Leadership and Women – Babes In Business Suits the Book Arrives in Australia
August 30, 2009 by Di
Filed under change management, leadership
Babes In Business Suits
Babes in Business Suits is the first in a remarkable series by Canadian author and publisher Felicia Pizzonia, celebrating the entrepreneurial success stories of women around the world.
Performance Management – Why don’t we play to our strengths?
November 18, 2008 by Di
Filed under performance management, productivity
If we were being really honest with ourselves, we’re probably not fantastic at every part of our job. If we were even more honest, we’ve probably learned to fake it a little – or a lot. It’s quite odd that we willingly subject ourselves to the stress of exerting constant effort to either fix, divert attention from or hide some part of our job performance we feel insecure about. This is instead of celebrating and growing the parts of our job that we’re really good at. In fact, we are so concerned that we will be busted for doing something wrong in an area we either don’t like or are weak in, that research by author Marcus Buckingham shows that 89% of us think that battling with our vices is our ticket to success.
It’s not as though we don’t have a choice. A staggering 74% of us feel we could adjust our job duties to suit our strengths. Yet we don’t.
Welcome to this on-line forum for leaders of change. My name is Di Worrall, and I help business leaders with the skills and confidence to make change happen for themselves, their career and their business. As an author, organisational change specialist and executive coach, I work with leaders to create a clear path through change and uncertainty; build their leadership skills and confidence; and create systems for lasting change and a more prosperous and sustainable future. For regular updates on our best leadership and change articles, you can subscribe to our fortnightly ezine below.
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