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Playing Well With Others: Being on Time Matters
I recently supervised a make-up exam. I couldn’t believe it, students were wandering in ten minutes late to an exam. Like the start time is optional. It made me start to think about […]
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Diversity: Good and Bad
Getting ready to teach the teams and groups classes in my organizational behaviour course, I started to think about diversity and how it affects teams. Students today are growing up with more […]
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Playing Well Together: Working in Teams
The millennial generation struggles to work well in teams. Just ask them. They will tell you. And so will their employers. Ability to work in teams has been identified by employers as an important […]
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What is Proactive Behaviour?
Being proactive is good, right? Most of the available literature on strategy, leadership and effectiveness in the workplace supports the idea that leveraging our human capital, by encouraging them to...
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The Downside of Proactivity
A while ago I wrote a post on “proactive” behaviour, talking about the risks of encouraging people to be proactive, but then ignoring their input. One of my readers recently posted this […]
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Empowerment & #Leadership
Empowerment is a crucial tool in our modern leadership toolkit. We write and talk about “empowering” our people constantly – Google the term empowerment; you’ll get nine million search results....
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Your teams are less effective than you think…
Effective teams have good decision-making processes based on evidence and critical thinking. Most teams aren’t effective decision-makers. One of the most profound ways to improve team decision-making...
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Celebrating the “Small People”: Getting Things Done
Two years ago, Carl Henric Svanberg, the Chairman of the Board of British Petroleum commented on the impact of the U.S. Gulf Oil Spill that was caused by a BP deep water […]
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#Leadership Basics: Getting Things Done
We live in a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Our VUCA world is one of the contributing factors to our need for greater leadership skills in the workplace. And […]
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Getting Your Ducks in a Row
Every year in August, I write new course outlines, with objectives, tasks, roles and deadlines identified for students. The university requires it and students expect it. From a leadership perspective,...
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