Why Trust Is At The Heart Of Great Teams
Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance, learning environment. Creating a safe environment for learning Ben has often […]
Join A Company, Leave A Boss
Tom Barry is Co-Founder of Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? and developed the Crazy Goal Workshop process. He facilitates senior board programmes, strategy development and works closely with senior teams to observe performance ‘in the moment’. If you’re a boss that sucks, it’s all over. Or is it? I remember the moment well. […]
Leading Change Through Storytelling
Jon Harding is a Senior Performance Consultant for Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? He has over 20 years’ experience as a business coach, team coach and facilitator. Jon has successfully worked with clients to improve leadership and team dynamics to create a high performance environment. What’s in a story? The story of Ben’s crew – […]
Marginal Gains – ‘One Percenters’
I talk a lot about being focused on performance or in other words, continuous improvement, having a performance mindset, marginal gains or ‘one percenters’. For the sake of this blog I’m not going to define and discuss the difference between these phrases, I just want to look at what they mean at a basic level […]
Leadership – which of these Mantras do you use?
Leadership mantras – do you use them? What are the qualities that make someone a good leader? That’s a difficult question to answer. The skills and traits that make for excellent leadership in one set of circumstances, could be a leader’s Achille’s Heel in another. It all depends on the group of people you’re leading and […]
Managing Team Performance – Avoiding Stress
Team performance – keeping it stress free Managing team performance is a challenge for business leaders in organisations everywhere. There are many areas of possible friction. Whether it’s how much autonomy to give an individual team member, or how big a task to give one particular group, leaders and managers may feel they are constantly […]
Leadership Development – How to Build your A-Team
Leadership – what’s required? What is it that allows some teams to be more than the sum of their parts, while some teams of experienced high-performers struggle to reach their potential? In some cases, the cause could be the quality of the leadership that the team enjoys. High quality leadership can be particularly important when […]
Managing Teams Effectively
Performance Principles – Managing Teams Effectively The third of our Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Performance Principles is “Work effectively with others to achieve goals”. Surrounding yourself with the right people is critical. What needs to be in place for you as a business leader to be able to trust the people around you? […]