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Remote Leadership
Considering Personal Needs When Managing Remotely
Remote management requires a different, more structured approach to help people and teams to thrive. The most important aspect to consider is whether your teams' personal needs are being met remotely.
Tasking - The Art Of Managing Remotely
Because managers have less visibility of motivation, activity and confidence levels when managing remotely, a new approach is needed to ensure remote staff are adequately supported, problems are addressed early, and credit is given for strong performance. But what IS tasking? This video will tell you what you need to know.
The COURAGE™ Conversation Structure
To help with your Tasking approach to remote management, you'll need a conversation structure which will empower and support your remote employees. Here's a great one to help you.
Motivating Employees From A Distance
One of the toughest aspects of remote management and remote leadership, is how to motivate team members when you can't be face-to-face. Motivating others is tough at the best of times, but when you no longer have physical presence to rely on, you need a new, more personalised, approach.
General Leadership
Encouraging Creativity In Your Team
How to enable your team to think more creativity and to think outside the box... by putting them in a box. Sound odd? Take a look for some great creativity ideas.
Creating new ideas with SCAMPER
Most human beings are not very good at creating new ideas. Fortunately, there are tools that can help, and one which I use a lot in my business is called SCAMPER. Here's what it's about...
Communicating the organisational strategy
Strategic thinking isn't just about deciding and developing your strategy - equally important is how you communicate that strategy. Here are 3 tips to help.
Creating a SOAP to communicate your strategy
If you don't know that SOAP is a tool for communicating a strategy, then you'll want to watch this short video.
A Leadership Lesson from Franklin D Roosevelt
President Roosevelt was famous for many things, one of which is for having been a great leader. Watch this short video to see what we can learn from him today.
Leading With Your Head In The Clouds
As a leader, it's easy to become detached from your team. Learn some tips to put that right in this video from the Empire State Building.
A Leadership Lesson from Lausanne
A video lesson from Lausanne about how it's impossible to be an effective leader without knowing the organisation's strategy.
Commmunication skills
Can you have a high-impact virtual communication?
Do communications need to be face-to-face to have impact? Can you be high-impact on a video call? On an email? Here's what a high-impact communication really is, and how to achieve it whatever your medium.
Working with the Navanter Personality Style Instrument
Understand what your Navanter Personality Style Instrument - NPSI™ test results mean and improve the way you work with your colleagues, suppliers, customers, and anyone you interact with.
A Lesson In Presentation Skills From John F Kennedy & Richard Nixon
The first televised presidential debate, in 1960 between John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon, changed political campaigning forever. It also provides valuable lessons for anyone who wants to be believable and confident in front of an audience. Learn some valuable lessons from this debate in this video from Navanter.
Vidéos en français
Leadership
Une leçon de leadership de Lausanne (français)
Récemment, j'ai passé quelques jours à Lausanne. Voici une leçon vidéo sur le leadership de mon voyage...