Paul Fleming McCullagh
Engagement. We want it, but don’t always give it. Companies want us to buy and engage with their apps. Managers want us to engage and be productive, and we want our social media followers to engage with our content. So, why is it, when faced with two products that do the same thing, we gravitate […]
Exceptional leaders help their team be proud of the work they do and ensures their team has a voice and are heard. The result? The team, and you, hit your goals and targets because of your excellent leadership. How you get there is by building support for your ideas and processes, and building trust between […]
Practical Change Management is a fun mix of people, process, and storytelling. What makes it satisfying is the people you are helping, become more confident and better able to do their jobs because of your efforts. How you get people to their happy place and excited about the change initiative is by providing the right […]
Let’s start with a question: what is project management? Is it a never-ending series of templates and dashboards, beloved of faceless bureaucrats with clip-boards, or is it a repeatable framework that facilitates project work and encourages the successful delivery of an end product? It’s really the latter, but many see it as the former. At […]
Ethical leadership is the ability to have people follow you and trust your ideas. Not through coercion or manipulation, but through positive actions and the care you take of those around you. A formal definition could be: ethical leadership is influencing those around you through your own positive behaviours. This article explains what ethical leadership […]
A keystone habit is a powerful habit that positively impacts everything you do. Picture an artist at their desk, the paint splattered surface overflowing with bottles and tubes, pens and sketches. Their creative habit impacts the way they feel—relaxed when painting, frustrated when they can’t—the clothes they wear and how they hold their brushes and […]
To solve a problem, we need to understand the root cause, then define and deliver a solution. And that starts when you ask the right questions. In a pivotal scene in the science fiction movie I, Robot, the hero, Detective Del Spooner, must ask a hologram a series of questions(5). The answers Spooner receives will […]
The first step to solving problems is to think and act differently than before. It can be a small action, like moving your to-do list to an app in place of your sticky notes that no longer stick and get lost. Or it could be significant, like changing jobs or careers. Either way, and for […]
What is Positive Intelligence and your Awareness Quotient? Your Awareness Quotient (AQ) is your ability to reflect on your thoughts and actions without judgement or bias or negative feelings. AQ enables you to practice self-awareness with compassion towards yourself. Falguni Katira, author and Transformational Coach, describes self-awareness as, “… knowing not only who you are, […]
We can find leadership lessons in the unlikeliest of places. The most powerful have come not from management books, but from watching people go about their jobs in industries different from mine. Are they someone others look up to? Do they enjoy the work they’re doing? Why do they do things the way they do? […]
This guide gives you the practical steps to improve your leadership skills and achieve the outstanding results others can’t. It starts with a keystone habit – the secret sauce that made all the difference for me – walks you through the method that delivers the improvements, and finishes with an example from my own career […]
Examples of being open-minded cover a wide range of behaviours and scenarios. There are minor examples like trying new food or watching a new show, while at the other end of the scale are the giant steps, like deciding to talk and listen to people with the polar opposite political views. At work, we encounter […]