Take a quick trip with me while I reflect on an experience in a desensitisation chamber and describe how it influenced my thinking around the importance of feedback on performance. Stay with me while I consider the changing role of leaders around feedback and then finish off the journey by reviewing 10 Critical Characteristics of providing effective feedback.

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When it comes to learning to solve contemporary workplace dilemmas or creating breakthrough leadership outcomes no characteristic is more important than perseverance.

The purpose of Leadership is to create a vision of the future and to inspire and motivate followers  towards that future. Because we can never be sure what the future will bring it often requires leaders and followers to commit to a vision and take a ‘leap of faith’ towards it.

Arguably the most critical skill you can have as a leader is to be an impactful listener. The intention of this post is to introduce 4 powerful leadership listening insights and offerings that go beyond the standard advice to listen more and to listen with more empathy.

‘Who Dares, Learns’ Many years ago as a young lad from Tamworth I might have been described as socially clumsy, perhaps a little too cheeky and mischievously adventurous. I was splashing my way through life with little concept of the effect that I had on others – my experience of leadership was uninspiring, and most likely limited to a fearful respect for the power of position and a blind adoration for leaders in sporting arena. On one occasion…