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This is a great time of year to be developing your plans for this year- both as a leader and organisationally. In this month's newsletter we are going to focus on two areas:

Communicating Change - What not to do...

Focusing on Team Results

Personal SWOT - reviewing your capabilities

It is my hope that these two articles will help you kick-start your new year and make it highly productive.

Best wishes,

Craig

 

 

 


Communicating Change - What not to do....

Leaders make some common mostakes surrounding communciating change. These include:

  • "We must wait until we have the answers before we communicate"
  • "It's complicated, it could be alarming if isinterpreted…we'd better say nothing."
  • "It's taken us months to work this out…but you'll understand it after one presentation/newsletters etc"
  • "Our job is to make information available - anyone who's interested will come and find out about it"
  • "We haven't said anything so we aren't communicating"
  • "We've covered this before so we needn't say it again"

The article explores these mistakes and provides simple tips on how to overcome poor communication. The mantra of change management is after all communicate, communicate, communicate! We would say - add another four more.

To read the full article click here

 
 


Focusing on Team Results

Are your team members more interested in their own personal results than that of the team? Just how do I stop the team being distracted from their key results? These are just two of the typical questions I am asked during team building sessions.

The article looks at aspects such as:

  • How are you measuring success?
  • The Power of Team Goals
  • Team versus Individual Results

To read the full article on focusing on team results, click here

 
 


Personal SWOT analysis

It's a new year and the perfect time to sit down and to develop a plan to capitalise on your strengths. This simple exercise helps think through this area and make a plan. Why not make 2006 when you don't just make a new year resolution... To read more a [click here]

 
 


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Issue 2 - February 2006

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Thought

"Order means light and peace, inward liberty and free command over one's self; order is power."
Henri Frederick Amiel

Recommended Book

As it's the start of a new year and many are looking to a fresh start - how about some creativity. The book below provides some simple and practical ways to be creative. We have used many of the authors ideas in our work:


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