by John Drury | Apr 15, 2012 | Leadership Articles
How Soft Skills (a.k.a. Leadership) Save Time And Make Money! Just recently, I was talking with a HR expert who works in Executive placement in larger companies. I asked him to estimate for me what it costs for a company to have the wrong person in a role and have to...
by John Drury | Mar 31, 2012 | Leadership Articles, Team Building
HOW You Communicate Is Often More Important Than WHAT You Communicate. We live with communication devices practically attached to our thumbs and yet in many ways communication has never been more difficult. Often the busyness and pressure of life can cause us to...
by John Drury | Mar 20, 2012 | Leadership Articles
What is Leadership? Recent surveys suggest that between 45 and 70% of people in leadership positions within Australian companies have not received adequate leadership training. Companies will invest significant dollars into skills training but often require staff with...
by John Drury | Feb 24, 2012 | Leadership Articles, Team Building
Most Important Leadership Question Ever! The Most Important Leadership Question: Why does this enterprise (organisation or business) exist? The story is told of two labourers working at a large building site in Europe in the 18th century. One was swearing and...
by John Drury | Feb 9, 2012 | Leadership Articles, Team Building
How To Have That Difficult Leadership Conversation There are few things more destructive to morale in a workplace as when there is a staff member causing havoc and no-one is willing to have that difficult leadership conversation with them which would quickly fix...
by John Drury | Jan 29, 2012 | Leadership Articles, Team Building
I worked with a business recently where the employees would dread it when the owner of the business came into their premises after a few days off because they would always notice the one thing done poorly rather than the 99 things done well. New staff would try really...
