Happy New Year! š„³ I hope everyone is well and started the New Year with a bang! I am sipping flat champagne out here on the patio as I write this at 10:13am. A bit early but we thought the bottle was empty and, as there was one glass left, I wasn’t going to waste …
We all know of the ubiquitous “To Do” list. Most have heard of the “Not To Do” list. But how many of us have a “Do Not Care” (DNC) list? A DNC list is a way to consciously decide the areas we consciously give energy to and areas we consciously don’t give a toss about! …
One of the dilemmas of trainers is in ensuring people to retain and apply the learning they have experienced. This is one of my bug bears where I don’t want to spend time with a group, get great evaluations and feel they’ve “got it” only to find very little has been applied. I mean, application …
Saturday and Sundays will posts are hereby now known as S&S. Though short (and sweet), hopefully insightful to give you a shot of energy and focus to do “the thing” you may have been putting off, or re-starting that “thing” you know has value but you’re stuck somehow. Today is about the growth mindset! Simply …
The SCARF Model was developed by David Rock in 2008. It may seem a deceptively simple model at first, but it creates a broad range of conversations to help develop you develop as well as the people around you and the team/s you lead. SCARF stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness and Fairness. The model …
I was speaking with an ex-colleague a few months ago, and they shared with me something that happened to her at work. Her supervisor told her to “… get a growth mindset. You have a fixed mindset and you need a growth mindset!” Her response, not sure if it was verbal or just to herself, …
Why the R in SCARF is the most important element. SCARF is a great tool for anyone, leader or not, to help improve the environment at work. (You can use this in your personal life as well.) The basic premise is we operate by threat or reward. If something seems threatening, we work to avoid …
Imagine your team. Imagine their performance mapped along a bell curve. It’s likely you’ll have a fairly common distribution. You’ll have some at the right hand side, killing it. Mostly having good days, weeks and months. A good proportion will be in the mid range. What Kim Scott in Radical Candor* calls Rockstars! (Ch. 3, …
The term G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time) is often applied to superstars of sport and business, of stage and screen. But did you realise that if you are better than you were yesterday, you are your own G.O.A.T. of that! Perhaps you are thinking that doesn’t count. Maybe it only counts when there is an …