Jon Mechan
How to Be the Boss No-one Quits
People don’t quit their job, they quit their boss. Jon! You wrote about this last time! Don’t worry, I’m not really repeating myself. In...
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Jon Mechan
How to Make a Graceful Exit
People don't quit their job, they quit their boss. At least according to 74% of respondents to a Gallup survey a few years ago, anyway....
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Jon Mechan
Setting the Right Cultural Tone
A man walked into a bar... Wait, we're not really doing that are we...? Bear with me... A while ago, I wrote about how you as a leader...
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How to Develop Your Leadership Voice
A client recently moved into a C-level role in a new organisation. They have a million and one things on their plate right now. One key...
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Approaching Goals from a Different Angle
As a leader you often have to consider the topic of goals, both for yourself and for your team. Frequently, however, they don't feel like...
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Jon Mechan
How to Make Tough Decisions
There are lots of clever decision-making frameworks out there. A friend asked me the other day about making a career decision so I...
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Managing Change (That You Didn't Choose)
Sometimes things happen to us in life that we don't choose. In a business context this could be a reorganization, a new boss, or even...
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Dealing with a Busy Brain
Life in the modern world is busy. There’s always a lot going on. There’s a constant assault of news and notifications and updates and...
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Eliminating Self-Sabotage
Today I'd like to start with an excerpt from a novel I read recently. Our species doesn’t operate by reality. It operates by stories....
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Watch Out for Burnout
I don't know if it's specifically related to the pandemic or just to how the modern world is impacting us, but it feels like people are...
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Putting Change Into Practice
I talk a lot in these articles about making changes, improvements, and evolutions in yourself and your leadership. The other day a client...
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Looking Back and Looking Forward
For the start of the new year, I’d like to do something a little bit different today. I recently talked about the idea of yearly themes,...
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Forget Resolutions - Choose a Theme Instead
Every year at around this time it’s natural to be reflective. Now, there’s nothing particularly special about a year but humans like to...
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Giving Recognition and Rewards
This week I had the great honour to collect an award on behalf of my wonderful team. A new initiative at our company, teams submitted...
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Giving and Receiving Feedback
As a leader, whether you’re the CEO of a multi-national company or a first-time manager, you will need to be able to give feedback to...
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Creating Team Autonomy
In my last article I wrote about how you might go about Building a Leadership Team - this time I want to go a bit further and explore...
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Jon Mechan
Building a Leadership Team
As a leader you cannot work alone. A good leadership team is greater than the sum of its parts. It is an essential support structure for...
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Jon Mechan
Learn Something New
I am a terrible sketch artist. But I do it anyway. Over a recent weekend I was fortunate enough to join the incomparable Leni Wildflower...
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Jon Mechan
Your Words Have Power
A few years ago I was given the opportunity to work with a coach who helped me with, amongst many other things, my unwitting use of...
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One Impactful Change
What one thing, if it were different, would have the most impact on your life? I was having a conversation with a friend the other day...
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