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Leadership and Life’s Little Luxuries: Are you rubbing your employees’ noses in it? Thumbnail

Leadership and Life’s Little Luxuries: Are you rubbing your employees’ noses in it?

Last week I received a call from prospective client who was struggling with a high staff turnover. He pleaded with me to help him stem the outflow. He is a small manufacturer that sells his products largely through distributors. I arranged to visit his offices in the Eastern suburbs the next day.

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The Change Strategy Rots from the Change Leader Down

It is sometimes uncomfortable to step back and reflect on the environment you create as a leader, however it is essential to understand your impact because people experience you from your behaviour and actions, not what you intend to say, think and feel.

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Warning: Your Mindset May Contain SPAM

Anyone who has made a major purchase like a car is likely to have experienced Reticular Activating System (RAZZ) in action. Let me illustrate. Once you’ve settled on a certain car you’d like to purchase or indeed have purchased, what happens? Well what happened to me is suddenly, “They’re everywhere! How did that happen?”

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Balancing the tightrope of health and high performance

Just before I headed off for my break, there was an interesting article in the Australian Financial Review, entitled, "It’s Recovery Time For Stressed Bosses." It was a timely reminder to use the break to rest my mind, body and come back with the best mindset for the year ahead.

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Leading Change – Are you a source of clarity or confusion?

You can be the most organised individual on the planet but when it comes to prioritising the right things to focus on at the right time with limited resources... that’s a different story.

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Leading Change – The Power of One

During a 360° feedback exercise that we completed with a client recently I was reminded of just how important it is for leaders and/or leadership teams to project or communicate the right message to their teams.

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Leading Change – Is the problem you?

There is certainly a lot going on right now. It’s like the race has started again for many organisations after spending a lot of time in the starting blocks. To cope with this, leaders need to be at their mental and physical best to ensure they can perform to the level that is demanded.

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One small change in mindset makes a BIG change to Don Holley

As a company Mindset has been fortunate enough to change individual, group and organisation mindsets, driving cultural change and improved results for our clients. 2011 is shaping up to be an amazing year and will challenge us all to be at our best to take advantage of the opportunities presented to us. Small, incremental changes to what you’re already doing have the potential to reap big results but making a difference starts with changing your mindset. Often the solution can be staring you right in the face.

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