Meetings take up a lot of the working day. Sometimes it feels like all of it. Going through all the ways to make meetings better could fill a book in itself. In this blog I’d like to focus on one idea to shorten meetings. How often have you found yourself in a meeting where the discussion […]
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Giving feedback is a lot more challenging in practice than it seems. It requires attitude, timing and technique. Let’s look at attitude first: What’s the purpose in giving someone feedback? To let off steam? Then, I button my lips. To put someone down? Button lips. To appear knowing? Lips. If I am interested in improving
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Would you prefer to be breakfast, or to eat breakfast? As Peter Drucker put it, “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast”. This was one of the insights that helped me to develop our definition of Enduring Leadership Excellence: The first part of the definition reflects strategy, the second part of culture. And an appropriate culture supports
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Do you want to be the best leader you never had? Along with relaunching our website, we are relaunching our blog. It is a well-curated collection of classic articles from the past, together with articles on our latest thinking on leadership excellence and articles prompted by your questions and feedback. Take a few minutes to
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You got to where you are because you’re excellent at what you do. Now you face the challenge that you have more to do than you can deal with, so you need to delegate tasks to other people. People who may not match your skill and enthusiasm levels. In his book The Tao of Coaching, Max
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The one thing CJ’s grandmothers could agree on — apart from how to make the perfect apple tart — was, if you lose something and you pray to St. Anthony, he will help you find it. As a small child, CJ nodded in agreement to this, since there was often a slice of perfect apple
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Finally! Here at Leadership Sculptor we are pleased to announce that our new website is live! Our original website was developed at a time when Leadership Sculptor was CJ, Daphne, Melanie, and Billy (who has recently reached emeritus status). Over the last 10 years, we have grown considerably and have taken the time to reflect
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A strong profile gives your leadership traction, and enables you to navigate the unique set of challenges you face. Using our leadership profile model, you develop the authenticity vital for good leadership. This helps your people trust you, your decisions and your actions. The key elements of our model are: Job What are your main
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Since 2011, we, at Leadership Sculptor, have ramped up our business capacity for developing leaders in research and development to achieve better scientific breakthroughs. Throughout our journey, we’ve focused on providing the best possible service to our clients, resulting in a remarkable standard of customer satisfaction. We took the time over the Summer to reflect
Since we influence people through our words or actions, our communication style plays a big part in our effectiveness as a leader. In this blog article I outline seven ideas that come up time and again in my work with leaders. Tip #1 There is an “I” in Leader Clarity is a hallmark of good
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