Situational judgement: navigating ethical decision-making

Would you instruct a brickie to produce a substandard sample panel?
Or make a promise to a client to win a project knowing you are going to break it?
Or accept a crucial role knowing you lack the necessary experience?

Have you read your professional code of ethics – lately or ever?

Here’s a chance to explore all the above and to test your ethical instincts.

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Successful leadership requires an understanding of the relationship between ‘Be’, ‘Do’ and ‘Have’.

Your right at the top, the leader of the organisation. Or maybe that’s your aspiration.

Who are you as a person and why does that even matter?

What about the team around you, who are you as a leadership team and why does that matter?

How did you become a leader, were you prepared for it? What about your team?

This is about advanced influencing for leaders …

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We Need to Talk About Transformation

Everyone’s talking about ‘transformation’. It seems like hype to me; is it ethical to sell ‘transformational’ benefits?

What does it even mean?

I think “We Need to Talk About Transformation” … coaches and all professionals.

I borrowed the title from one of my fav films – “We Need to Talk About Kevin” – a great watch though harrowing.

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Is your team leading ‘on purpose’?

Without a clear purpose leadership teams unwittingly cause confusion, drift and division.
“We are working in silos” is a common refrain.
The team was established for a reason, there was a purpose but it’s not evident now.
It needs to rediscover its purpose and lead on purpose. But how?
What’s the purpose of this leadership team?

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“We need a strategy for that.”

What do you mean by strategy?
Few leaders I work with seem to agree and yet it is a major part of the tool kit.

How have we gotten here?
Want to join a group to explore strategy, this might be useful …

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Five top tips for construction job interviews

They asked for my top five tips to ace a job interview.

This got me thinking about the interviewer. Are you trying to get the best out of the applicant or are you testing them to see how they are under pressure?

Here’s my top tips to ace it.

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