Recovery from Command-and-Control: A Twelve-Step Program

Effective Leaders know thyself. Effective Leaders know what drives them. They know their personal values and their work values. They know what motivates them and what they are good at. They know their own preferences and their ability to adapt. Effective leaders demonstrate high levels of self-actualizing behaviour. “Based on needs of personal growth, self-fulfillment…

The SCARF suite of assessments and workshops are designed to transform the quality of thinking and performance amongst teams. The link to the free online self assessment below gives you insight into the five domains of the SCARF model, and indicates the importance each domain currently has in your life. Understanding which of these five…

Being conventional has it’s benefits.  You can manage risk, be reliable, comply with policy and be safe. But, it has it’s down sides.  It restricts creativity and dampens your level of achievement. You end up living someone else’s life. Bend some rules. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy to growth” – John…

If your previous experience has developed your current patterns of thinking and behaviour AND you want to change your thinking and behaviour towards more constructive styles THEN you will need to deliberately design and live new experiences.

This blog sits very well with my recent post re “How NOT to create an environment for teaming and innovation”. In particular the last 4 minutes of the John Cleese video on creativity.