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Since the launch of “The Attitude Book” I have given many talks and facilitated many events and workshops, seeking to inspire positive change through boosting individual, team and company attitudes. The eager (and
impatient) participants sometimes implore me to give them fast track short cuts. Perhaps we all seek that quick win, the ‘secret’!
There are few phrases as powerful, as evocative, as “I am…” People need to understand, clearly, who you are and how you operate in order to follow you, to advocate your work and to support your leadership vision. As leader, your role is to provide a clear and consistent message to follow.
This is one of my favourite chapters from The Attitude Book, the sharpening of your axe has come to encompass many things with the essence remaining the same - how you prepare for anything is how you end up doing anything. Every time I use this chapter with individuals or groups, it is just what is needed!
This chapter gets revisited often in coaching dialogues, particularly when clients are at a crossroads or struggling with recognising and fully appreciating their impact. As always, the reflective practice of writing helps to focus the mind, remind and reinforce your value.
In my experience, teams often get into patterns of behaviour that may or may not be helpful, unnoticed and easy to ignore without anyone confronting and challenging ways of working.
Using this metaphor is a valuable way of reviewing and realigning many aspects of how a team functions, liberating the opportunities for more to be achieved!
Urgentia is one of my favourite chapters to talk about and bring to life for clients at conferences and team events. It focuses on the sense of urgency and busy-ness that sometimes overwhelms us and how we can manage this to maximise our potential.
A couple of months ago I wrote a Simple Note about leadership impact. I also promised a more detailed article exploring my thoughts on this topic. So here it is, in all it’s glory, for you to explore how you can increase your leadership impact and influence.
Do you ever find team meetings or situations spiralling out of control as others hog the discussion?
It is often best to allow the rants and conversation spume to bubble up, flow-out and pass before sagely delivering your message, but in such extreme situations, where standards are low, you may need some additional techniques to steer and guide the room.
Here are tips on ways to get into a busy conversation that seems to offer no gaps!
In “The Impact Book”, author Simon Tyler describes the leadership impact journey as passing through four escalating outcomes – your Attraction; creating Appetite; nurturing Advocacy; and inspiring Action. This is your Impact A-game.
This article explores the first of those, Attraction: Finding and developing your leadership magnetism.
