That's a wrap, people. Woody is winding down for the festive period. See you in 2025! Enjoy the forced fun corporate Christmas parties!
#culture #forcedfun #conga

Have you ever spent more time getting approval for taking an action than the action itself? Most people have. The “let's make sure” mentality is flawed because things will always go wrong no matter how much you (over)design the process. Guardrails (+ trusting your people) beat processes every time.

Humor and leadership may seem like strange companions but the positive impact leaders' humor has on employees and work outcomes is no laughing matter! Humor is now being conceptualized as a leadership tool for leaders to strategically use to bring about desired employee outcomes. #leadership #humor

As many of us begin to wind down for the festive period, I am thinking of how powerful having radical clarity on the company strategy and team priorities would be moving into 2025. Unfortunately, more often than not, we end up with garbled messaging leading to 'crystal confusion'!

Does your organisational tech stack serve the work, or is your work a slave to the tech? Tech tool choices all have a POV, each benefit has a tradeoff. Are you making deliberate choices or, for example, using all Microsoft tools because they are there? Here's looking at you MS Teams...
#tech

Trust is an espoused value in many companies, but it's more of a vague aspiration than a lived value. The organisational OS neither incentivises nor creates the conditions for people to trust each other (or the company.)
#culture #organisations #trust #leadership

It's hump day, so what else would we need than some explicit manager-led motivational speech? Maybe just being left alone to do our own thing?
#management #motivation

In business, in stark contrast to online, I see far too much consensus - or sometimes just passive agreement on an issue just to move on. Having the space to offer an opinion is essential - let's create those conditions #leadership #organisation #culture

Happy Monday! Are you all set for micromanagement again this week? I remember a former boss using the sentence starter: "I'm not going to micromanage you," which gave me a great relief....until he said “but” + a series of things resembling micromanagement. It's all about the "but"...
#management

It's Fri-YAY! Remember to be true to your boundaries today, this weekend and, erm, every day.
#waysofworking #boundaries

Do as I say, not as I do. A little self-awareness goes a long way...
#leadership #management #selfawareness

A digital bank with no branches, mandating people return to office. Customers stay at home, but staff you have to go to a place to interact with zero customers. Nice
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

How delegation sometimes feels for the person that has been delegated to.
#leadership #management #delegation

Leading from the front?
#leadership #management #organisations