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Building Trustable Teams

Trust isn’t naturally occurring. It needs effort and intention. — Trust is fundamental. Relationships, teams and organisations cannot succeed without trust. It’s not controversial. We need to trust, and be trusted. In “The Neuroscience of Trust”, which appeared in the January 2017 Harvard Business Review, Claremont Graduate University Professor Paul Zak wrote that: Compared with people at low-trust companies, people…

Management

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Building Trustable Teams
Building Trustable Teams
Management

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Coaching For Flow

Building the foundations for teams to exceed expectation In my experience, there are two characteristics to a successful team reflection session: The team learns something new about themselves The team did not expect to learn that thing. In their most recent retrospective, a software development team I coach was interrogating their reflection that they are communicating well, and…

Coaching

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Coaching For Flow
Coaching For Flow
Coaching

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How Strategy Succeeds

Your strategy is out of date from the moment you complete it. So would it follow that an effective strategy is one that isn’t complete? — Penguins have a tough job to do in a harsh and unforgiving environment. They survive and succeed by making behavioural and structural adaptations. Behaviourally, they survive winter storms by combining the body heat of the community, and tens of thousands of them may huddle together for warmth. Structurally, they have…

Leadership

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How Strategy Succeeds
How Strategy Succeeds
Leadership

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Reflecting on Reflection

I’m a staunch advocate of the practice of reflection. The benefits are extraordinary: greater ability in sense making; developing a better understanding of yourself and others; recognising connections between people and practices; creating and maintaining space and reducing cognitive load. …

Coaching

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Reflecting on Reflection
Reflecting on Reflection
Coaching

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Aug 5, 2022

Just unsubscribe me from your bloody email

Stop checking if I really want to unsubscribe. I do. Just unsubscribe me. — For a period of six months last year I compiled and wrote a weekly newsletter. More than anything, it was an experiment in whether I could build and maintain a consistent writing habit. …

Marketing

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Just unsubscribe me from your bloody email
Just unsubscribe me from your bloody email
Marketing

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Mar 11, 2022

The First Three Things Every New Manager Should Do

A foundation for your team’s success is the starting point for your own. You’re in your first management role, and there is no shortage of advice available to you. Stop being a friend, start being a leader. Dress for the role. Build relationships with everyone around you. Be productive. Inspire…

Management

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The First Three Things Every New Manager Should Do
The First Three Things Every New Manager Should Do
Management

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Feb 7, 2022

Outside the Echo Chamber

What can we gain by having conversations with strangers? All of us are exposed to the same selection of opinions for the majority of the time. A combination of conscious decisions, and whatever cognitive biases are dominant at any given time, provide us with a slice of information that we use to construct our beliefs. In an attempt to…

Personal Development

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Outside the Echo Chamber
Outside the Echo Chamber
Personal Development

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Jan 24, 2022

Planning With Purpose

How do we make plans that can succeed in an out of control world? — As 2022 begins, we live in a chaotic world. And we make our worlds even more chaotic by trying to impose order. I resolve to do this. I will achieve that. “This will be my year.” Can we really do this with willpower alone? That disorder, or lack of definition…

Strategy

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Planning With Purpose
Planning With Purpose
Strategy

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Dec 16, 2021

Do One Thing

How I coach team members who are struggling with focus — I am now, as I have been for the last week, blocked. I’m stuck. I can’t get started. I have no plan. I have no idea what this article will be about. I don’t know how, when, or if I’ll be able to publish it. I am devoid of any…

Productivity

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Do One Thing
Do One Thing
Productivity

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Dec 13, 2021

The Feedback Paradox

Feedback is most valuable when it’s difficult to hear. Three actions to create better relationships for feedback. — We all want to improve. Intentionally or otherwise, we do this by experimentation. We take new actions or try different methods to see if our outcomes improve. One of the key ways we measure that improvement is by external feedback. …

Coaching

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The Feedback Paradox
The Feedback Paradox
Coaching

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Piers Campbell

Piers Campbell

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Building and coaching connected, high capability teams, and then writing about it.

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