No Bullsh!t Leadership

How To Give Great Feedback | Moment 189

Your ability to give quality feedback is one of the biggest predictors of leadership success. But many leaders never master the art of difficult conversations.  Like man

How to Stay Calm Under Pressure: 6 Signs Your Team Knows

You may think that you’re highly resilient, an expert at staying calm under pressure… but your team could be experiencing something completely different. They're the ones

How to Make Decisions Faster: 6 Signs They're Waiting on You

When you hesitate on an important decision, it’s rarely due to missing data or insufficient consultation. It's more likely because you're afraid of getting it wrong. And

How to Lead in Uncertainty: 6 Signs Your Team Is Frozen

One of your critical jobs as a leader is to absorb the ambiguity that you’re facing, and turn that into certainty for your people. If you can’t do that, your team will f

How to Focus Your Team on Value: 6 Signs They're Just Busy

When you reward long hours, instead of rewarding the results that make a difference, you're paying for effort instead of value. You can't hold someone accountable for de

How to Stop Doing Your Team's Job: 6 Signs You're in the Weeds

When you rewrite one of your people's reports at 9pm, you're not just compensating for their weakness. You're reinforcing it. That report was their chance to learn how t

How to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations: 6 Signs It's You

When you have an underperformer on your team, but you haven’t given them specific performance feedback, you're reinforcing their underperformance.  They may think that n

How to Hold Your Team Accountable: 6 Signs Nobody Owns Anything

Somewhere on your team right now there's a person who isn't delivering. You thought of their name before you got to the end of that sentence. Over the next seven days, I

Stop Taking the Pressure Home: 3 Ways to Compartmentalise | Moment 188

When you feel swamped and overwhelmed, it’s easy to go home and kick the cat.  But if you learn to compartmentalise, you’ll find it much easier to leave the stress of wo

How to Build a Team That Performs Without You: 16 Real Questions

We asked 800 leaders one question. What's actually hard about leadership right now? The answers were so good we decided to answer them live. No prep. No script. Em fires

How Do You Lead Your Old Team Mates? | Moment 187

Being promoted to a new leadership level is a difficult transition to make. But it’s even tougher when you’re promoted to lead the team you used to be part of. The bigge

Your Ultimate Talent Identification Checklist

Every time you fill a vacancy, you have to make a choice: do you promote someone from within, who you may know quite well, or take a punt on someone you don’t?  Over my

Will You Choose to Accept the Cost of Leadership? | Moment 186

There are three costs of leadership that nobody tells you about when you get promoted; and they are a given. You can no more change them than you can avoid the pull of g

3 Mindset Shifts When You're Unhappy At Work

When leaders are unhappy at work, they often blame the company. But more often it’s a sign of dissatisfaction with their own inability to work within the constraints of t

Better Decisions, Faster: Why Consensus Slows Your Team | Moment 185

Speed can be a performance multiplier, if you can build it into your culture.  But there are going to be times when you need to back off… and part of being a great leade

12 Execution Breakthroughs for Leading Leaders

If you're leading leaders, accountability is the first thing that breaks. You're not overloaded. You just rely too much on your own individual brilliance to get results.

How to Build a No Blame, No Excuses Culture | Moment 184

McLaren won back-to-back F1 championships when the CEO replaced victimhood and blame with a culture that guaranteed top shelf performance. That wasn’t luck. He made deli

Stop Solving Your Team's Problems: 6 Ways to Execute Like Elon

If you look at the spectacular results that Tesla has achieved as a business, it might entice you to try to emulate Elon Musk’s leadership approach.  But that would most

3 Timeless Principles of Success in 4 Minutes | Moment 183

There are 3 success principles that are particularly relevant for the new world we’re leading in. And they have nothing to do with luck, talent, or connections! As labou

5 Ways To Align People's Pay With Their Value

Can you explain clearly why the people on your team are paid what they're being paid? If you can't, you may have a hidden problem eating away at your meritocracy.  We've