Leadership… That you build Trust/psychological safety – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Avoid surprises, build creditability, build reliability, show authenticity and share credit “When trust is extended, it breeds responsibility in return. Emulation and peer pressure regulates the system better than hierarchy ever could.”…
Leadership… That you learn and grow – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Evolving you, evolving leaders and evolving the team, evolving the strategy, feedback “When you can truly understand how others experience your behavior, without defending or judging, you then have the ability…
Leadership… Stability (Protecting your Mental Health) – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20186 Dec 2018 Understand how you react under stress, moving beyond, buy time, process, leave When overwhelmed or under stress most of us rely on more "basic" approaches to problems, which is not…
Leadership… Approachability – Leadership by Example 9 Jul 20182 Dec 2018 Make it safe to approach you, give time to be approached, be present and follow up “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the…
growth… Eric Brooke Strength Finders Feb 2018 12 Feb 20182 Dec 2018 So as part of a team building exercise I redid my Strength Finders 2.0. It had changed. Here is my previous one Whilst three strengths were the same (in bold),…
Communcation… Leading leaders 21 Jan 20182 Dec 2018 Maybe you are a Director, a Head of X or a Vice President, and you now own a department or multiple teams. Moving from a front line leader i.e managing Individual…
Culture… First Job in the USA 2 Oct 20173 Dec 2018 Here is a presentation that I presented to some of my colleagues at Enova about what it was like to move to the USA. The Journey of an immigrant from…
Change Management… Leading software engineers 14 Apr 201515 Feb 2019 A friend (non technical) recently asked me how I lead my dev team, he had led product and marketing before, so I have attempted to focus on the differences, that…
Culture… Is ageism a lazy form of decision making? 15 Aug 201415 Aug 2014 Ageism is often used in reference to what some people think about older people. I have seen ageism used to undermine the opinions and thoughts of younger people.I think what…
Career Management… the need to reflect on yourself 26 Sep 201328 Sep 2013 I am a workaholic (I never feel I work hard enough), there used to be a few things that make me pause and force me to reflect such as illness,…
