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Time to Read: Around 2 minutes The real root cause of your success or failure As a team, in a project and in your organisation. A few months ago I was invited to meet the CEO of a Hi-Tec company for a coffee. We sat and we chatted about life, the universe and Brexit –…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 45 seconds The very first words I wrote for ‘The Naked Leader’ – Chapter 23 – Recapture The Magic. With global economic uncertainty, they seem even more apt today – 16 years on. So, after you’ve read them, the question for you as a leader is this – what are you…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 2 minutes 30 seconds You learn far more from failure This month, Clive Barrett, speaks with Professor Mark Durkin, Dean at Ulster University Business School: IF passion, knowledge and determination to succeed are the benchmark for business success it is no wonder Professor Mark Durkin has scaled the heights. While bridging the…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 45 seconds Competencies have one major downside They never work. Boring, complex and time consuming aside, they simply create general all rounders. Going forward – strengths are all. Because if people do not use their strengths every day, they will reduce. If all you did in your organisation was to unlock the…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 17 seconds People love doing what they are good at… And they – we – are good at what we love doing. When I said this recently, at a school, a young boy responded: “Duh!” So, ask everyone in your team, on your project, in your organisation, what do you LOVE doing…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 40 seconds The top 7 ways to unlock new ideas from the people you already have Organisations that identify, unlock and unleash the strengths, passions and ideas in the people that they already have will succeed, those that don’t, won’t. So, 3 NL Weeks – this one on ideas, next on passions…… Continue Reading
Time to read: 4 minutes This month’s Leader Feature – Clive talks to an inspirational young woman, Katie Walker. Katie won the Prince’s Trust Young Achiever of the Year title at the Pride of Britain Awards. Here’s Clive Barrett’s interview with Katie: KATIE Walker was “shaking” when she went to click ‘send’ on social media…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: 40 seconds How to be recognised for the work you do without shouting about it – in Royal Flush order…. Ace – Get known in your organisation as being an obvious expert in something so you become the go too person in that area – do not brag – just make it…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Time to read 90 seconds Good service is when… Good customer service is how the customer is treated when things go wrong. Too many customer service training initiatives concentrate on following a process for how things should proceed, and too few on what happens when events go outside of that process. In…… Continue Reading
Time to Read: Shorter than arranging a meeting Bolt the door, lock the windows, send for pizza… I was coach to a new CEO who had been in place for around 3 months and he had invited me to a monthly Executive meeting. For a variety of reasons he was doubting whether important financial information…… Continue Reading