Posts Tagged ‘influence’
Breaking the Grip of Influence: 4 Strategies to Make Decisions as a Strong Leader
Hold your own power: stop letting others influence your decisions. American actor, James Hong, is quoted as saying “Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.” He could just have accurately said, “Lead how you want to lead…” One of your key responsibilities as leader is to make decisions. Some…
Read MoreNeed for Contentment: how it impacts our top leadership executives?
The Need for Contentment and How This Manifests in Executives (Part 5 in the Human Needs Series) Over the first four blog posts in this series, we have discussed a number of the different needs that humans need to fulfil in order to live a satisfied and fulfilled life. These are significance, control, belonging, and…
Read MoreHuman Need for Significance: how can it manifest itself in executives?
The Need for Significance and How This Manifests in Executives (Part 4 in the Human Needs Series) So far in this series, we’ve looked at the four needs that humans need to fulfil: the need for significance, control, belonging, and contentment. We’ve also looked at two of these in more detail – control and belonging.…
Read MoreWhat powerful impact can the human need for belonging have in leadership?
The Need for Belonging and How This Manifests in Executives (Part 3 in the Human Needs Series) In the first two blog posts of this series, you will recall that we talked about the four needs that humans need to fulfil in order to achieve inner peace and psychological calm. These are significance, control, belonging…
Read MoreNeed for Control: how can this human need manifest in leadership?
The Need For Control and How This Manifests in Executives (Part 2 in the Human Needs Series) In the first blog post of this series, which you can view here, you will recall that we talked about a personality psychology and trait and behavioural theory models that suggests four needs that humans need to meet.…
Read MoreExecutive Behaviour: how it can be impacted by four critical human needs
Human Needs and How These Affect Executive Behaviour (Part 1 in the Human Needs Series) If you’re interested in the psychology and human/executive behaviour space, chances are that you’ve already heard of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This is a five-tier pyramid model that was proposed by American psychologist, Abraham Maslow, in 1943. Each tier or…
Read MoreExecutive Burnout- simple ideas for how to avoid this destructive phenomenon
Is Executive Burnout a Pandemic Symptom – How You Can Avoid It If you asked us back in 2019 what we thought work would look like in two years’ time, none of us would have guessed how significantly it would be changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Flash forward to 2022, and we’ve seen a massive…
Read MoreHow Psychological Safety Creates High Performing, Innovative Teams
Using Psychological Safety to Create High Performing, Innovative Teams High performing, innovative teams are an asset to any business. After all, you can’t have a successful business without having the right team behind it! But how exactly are we supposed to go about enabling our teams to reach that “next level”? There’s a few schools…
Read MorePerformance Executive Coach- why are they so effective for survival in the corporate world?
What Is A High Performance Executive Coach? Simply Explained “Executive Coaching”. If you’re a CEO, executive, or senior manager in the private corporate sector, there’s a good chance you’ve heard these two words thrown around a bit by other companies and executives. But what exactly is executive coaching, and why do you need it? Basically,…
Read MoreLack of self-confidence: how to overcome it to be a more impactful leader
Mindset for Success: Why you lack self-confidence and what to do to overcome it. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem I’d like to take that quote a step further and say, “Self-doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. If there’s one thing that holds us back from success, it’s…
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