Valuable Leadership

Well it’s December. The countdown to the Christmas break begins and work both simultaneously speeds up and slows down. Here in Aus there are two months of the year that are particularly susceptible to this ‘predictable chaos’.

Let me share with you, word for word, a discussion from my house earlier this week...

95% of the change initiatives I’ve seen across my career define a WHY, create the solution and then get about delivering. Those leading these initiatives then act surprised when what was delivered doesn’t always meet the organisation’s or customer’s needs.

As a Change Leader - part of your job is to build and rally others behind a clear, shared change WHY. What you don’t want to do is fall into the vagueness trap.

I’ll keep this one short. After getting all the way to Mid-November, in our second year of this pandemic - if you’re finding that your own energy and enthusiasm is waning, I want you to ponder something for me.

Through many of my conversations with clients lately, I’m hearing a consistent theme: Burnout. It’s been a tough year.

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been making my way through the absolutely fantastic How to Be Animal: A New History of What it Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger.

This week, one my advisory clients received one the most bureaucratic decisions from ‘down the line’ that I’ve heard in a long time.

Bret Yount is a professional Stage Combat Teacher who has done work for many big name productions throughout the UK. He’s also worked with acting superstars, one of which is Benedict Cumberbatch on the 2019 London National Theatre production of Hamlet.