by anna | Jun 29, 2016 | Collaboration, Courage, Leadership, Working effectively across the organisation
Organisations concerned about sustainability are increasingly asking for help to improve their internal collaborative behaviours. In my work with them, however, I observe that people continue to have difficulty in collaborating outside of very specific team...
by anna | Mar 22, 2016 | Leadership, Stepping up to Leadership, Working effectively across the organisation
I see people rushing and quite literally running from meeting to meeting. I find it interesting that highly intelligent individuals book meetings that start on the hour and finish on the hour. Given that ‘Beam me up Scotty’ is as yet technically not with us I am...
by anna | Mar 1, 2016 | Build better relationships, Leadership, Working effectively across the organisation
Leadership characteristics include the courage to override a short-term approach to focus on things that really matter. For a family emergency, most of us would let go of what had appeared just seconds before to be the most important tasks.. We are prepared to...
by anna | Nov 30, 2010 | Working effectively across the organisation
A hypothesis: Building on existing behaviours and preferences rather than trying to change them, will result in more cross functional opportunities. Encouraging Partners from different functional areas (e.g. audit and tax) to work together in a way that creates new...