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Effective leadership in innovative organisations – some insights

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 24th January 2019 Harvard Business Review has come up with another insightful article on what makes for effective leadership. This time, Gary P. Pisano shines a light on what leaders can do to channel potentially chaotic creative talent into cost-effective and productive behaviours and outcomes. (The Hard Truth about Innovative Cultures, HBR …

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Dealing with the dark side of our personalities!

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 9th November 2017 Current approaches to management put emphasis on identifying and developing our strengths.  And rightly so.  Our individual strengths give us the opportunity to make significant contributions in our home and work lives.  The diversity of strengths within a team contribute to the success of organisations. Personality tools such as …

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Understanding when we are at our best

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 26th June 2016 Why seek to understand when we are at our best? Two of the most popular topics in the 3-day Introduction to Management course that I run with RiverRhee Consulting are motivation, and Belbin team roles.  The way we explore them is by examining what motivates the delegates on the …

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Is it psychobabble? How better understanding can lead to better collaboration

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 4th October 2015 Meet Diane and Tom Diane and Tom are two colleagues who have been working together for some years now.  Their latest project is to make a new kind of widget. Diane enjoys a good debate. She loves having new challenges to explore, opportunities to think ‘outside the box’, to break …

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Difficult people are not necessarily being difficult!

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By Elisabeth Goodman, 31st March, 2015 How to work with difficult people is a subject that many managers struggle with How to work with “difficult” people is one of the topics Janet Burton and I explore in RiverRhee Consulting’s 3-day Introduction to Management course , and in our tailored in-house supervisor and line manager courses. …

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