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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work

If you have ever wondered why some teams consistently demonstrate high performance and achievement of its objectives (and why some don’t) you have probably experienced great leadership by a leader who understands his or her team.

To Totally Rock Your Performance at Work, Your Self-Esteem is Key

To Totally Rock Your Performance at Work, Your Self-Esteem is Key

The Key Influencing Factor in your performance at work is not your skills, your status, your experience. It isn’t even who you know, or who knows you. All these things are important, but there is something fundamental that is required to make all these things attain value. It is your Self-Esteem.

How To Improve Your Performance With 8 Weekly Events

How To Improve Your Performance With 8 Weekly Events

Personal performance improvement is often treated like a ‘project’. You identify goals; you plan change; you manifest change; you test change; you review change; job done. For most personal improvements, this works just fine. But get this – this project work is often de-scoped or de-prioritized. And then it is rushed, just before your Performance [...]

6 More Powerful Questions To Ask At Your Performance Review

6 More Powerful Questions To Ask At Your Performance Review

Last week I posed 6 powerful questions to ask at your performance review . I’ve received quite a lot of traffic on this post so I can conclude this is an important and hot topic. Here are six more powerful questions to ask at your review, which delve further into your performance and to inquire [...]

How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?

How Do Business Analysts Measure Their Value?

Business Analysts are the fulcrum that turn an idea, problem or opportunity identified in the business into something that IT can engage with and deliver. So BAs generally deal with work whose inputs are less easily defined and therefore measured. So how do BAs measure their value? Take a look at BAs who are working in [...]

It’s Leaders Who Create Merit-Whores

A couple of weeks back I wrote about the most disliked behaviors in IT departments, and one that 80% of IT leaders felt strongly about was the rise of the Merit-Whore. A Merit-Whore is someone who persistently and unfairly takes credit for the work of a team or a subordinate. Why does this happen? In [...]