Every time we learn something new we have to connect that to our world, to understand how that new piece of information or skill will work for us. Knowing is not enough, we have to integrate the new into our existing understanding of the world. That takes reflection.
In this podcast, Ricky and Rob explore why reflection is so important and offer up different strategies that will help you reflect, and therefore embed, your learning.
Motivation is essential if you want to get the best from your team that is. How to get the best from your team comes from understanding what motivates them and how they like to work.
Do you know what motivates the members of your team?
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How many goals should you have? Should you have goals for everything, or just focus on one thing?
Ricky and Rob have one goal in this podcast, to talk about how many goals should have if you want to make sure you achieve all of the goals that you set yourself.
Have you considered why your people are not stepping up?
This video is a 90-second summary of our first LinkedIn article, which asks why my people are not stepping up.
We explore how your leadership shadow can limit your people more than you ever imagined. The shadow of a leader makes it hard to step up; it feels too hard, so they don’t.
Stepping up is expected of every leader, and we hope our people follow suit, but your shadow and your behaviour get in the way.
To get a more productive team, you need an understanding of motivation at work.
This video explores the basic needs of a more productive team and how more effective motivation can help you achieve it with your team.
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Ricky and Rob get ARCI in this podcast, looking at how (and why) people often confuse accountability and responsibility.
The RACI model is a great tool to help understand different roles and responsibilities, but is Responsible (the R in RACI) really the place to start, or should Accountable go first?
Someone, probably a past manager, will have talked to you about time management at some point in your working life. You won’t be alone if these conversations have left you feeling that if you could just organise your time a little bit better, you would suddenly become so much more successful.
In this podcast, Rob and Paul explore this idea and pull apart the myths behind time management, suggesting that the alternative might be just to be better at managing your attention and choices.
Every organisation suffers from politics in the workplace; it’s how things get done; influencing, cajoling and getting stuff done means we need to know how to handle politics in the workplace.
In this video, we share a useful, practical model from Baddeley and James; their work uses animals to describe political behaviours. The Fox, the Owl, the Sheep and the Donkey. You will learn how to spot politics in the workplace, and working with political animals is essential if you are to get things done and navigate your way through everyday business life.
In this episode of the podcast, we explore motivation.
Ricky and Paul consider why the typical motivational strategy of rewards and consequences (Carrot and Stick) might not be getting the best out of your team. They consider why this approach is so common when it has such a limited impact, and discuss alternative strategies that will create more engaged and motivated team members.
By the way, sorry about the audio quality on this one. Even though it sounds like it, we can assure you that Paul was not recording from the toilets!
In this video, we discuss how to show up as your best self in seven ways. So, whether you’re working on your own personal growth or striving to be a better co-worker, colleague, or manager, this video will provide you with some helpful tips.
With this video, you can work on becoming the best version of yourself! I think you’ll find that this is a journey that’s well worth taking. Thanks for watching!
