Jon Mechan
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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Jon Mechan
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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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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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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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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How to Onboard Successfully
Onboarding yourself into a new role can be a scary time. It's like being the new kid at school, and you don't know where the toilets are,...
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Creating Psychological Safety
I watched the finale of the most recent series of The Apprentice (UK) the other day. It's an interesting show. Not because it's in any...
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Managing Career Transitions
A few years ago, a client of mine lost his job. Here's how we got him a role he loves. (I'll call him 'Jim' in this article.) Step 1:...
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Leadership and Motivation
A friend of mine runs marathons for fun. I can't imagine anything worse. For him, the motivation of the achievement is super powerful. He...
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Curiosity as a Leadership Mindset
"I don't care, I want someone to blame." You can learn a lot from bad leaders. We had been troubleshooting a major outage all weekend,...
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Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill
A wise man once told me, "Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill". It has stuck with me ever since. When you're looking at recruiting for...
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About Imposter Syndrome
Many leaders suffer from Imposter Syndrome. It is a frequent problem among many people during their careers, with one survey suggesting...
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Defining Organizational Culture
Culture is defined by the people. But it is strongly influenced by leadership. This is because leadership defines the norms and...
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How to Plan and Reflect
As a leader, you are no use to anyone if you don't take time to think. You need to carve out time both to plan and to reflect if you want...
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How to Protect Free Time
In order to think more clearly you need to stop. Take a break. Rest. A couple of weeks ago I talked about using the Three Day System to...
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