Use this section when you want to provide direction for your team, do strategy, or help your team to implement a corporate strategy, a new set of values or any project. This section is designed for team leaders, coaches, strategy facilitators and strategists.

 

 

 

The role of a strategic leader

• Strategic leadership. Whether we are doing strategy, implementation of strategy, transformation, change management, or project management we are involved in the management of success. What do leaders of successful teams do?

Plan a team intervention.

• Plan a team intervention.You need to plan a team intervention. How do you choose the right one? Choose the appropriate intervention based on what you as a leader, want to achieve.

Develop a strategic plan for your area

• What makes strategic planning fail. Most senior managers who have attended numerous strategy retreats in their career view strategic planning as a nothing more than a big pretence. Which it often is. Filled with great pretenders. The great pretenders include:

• Evaluate strategic planning How do you know if your strategy retreat was a pretence or a success? It all depends on what your team has achieved by the end of the strategic retreat.

• Strategic development. The end result of a successful strategic planning session is a powerful strategic plan, AND a team that is united and excited about their future. To achieve such results from a strategy workshop, follow these 3 principles:

 

This section contains articles and tools on team innovation. It is designed to help team leaders, innovation champions, coaches and facilitators to help their teams to innovate.

 

 

 

 

Get a team to generate innovative ideas

• Run a team innovation workshop. Do you need to get a team to come up with innovative ideas – to submit to your organization’s innovation system? An innovation workshop provides you with a wonderful opportunity to energize your team, build team spirit, and inject some fun and creativity into your work place.

 

 

 

 

This section has articles around the theme of Team Leadership. This includes leading teams in many different situations. It is designed for team leaders, a coaches, facilitators and change agents.

 

 

 

 

 

Lead your self

• Lead yourself first. This article shows how by applying two leadership tools (vision & values) to yourself first, you can be more powerful in leading your team.

 

Manage change.

• Managing change- write your own story. Why managing change is like writing a story. You, as author can choose whether you want to create a horror story or an inspirational tale of achievement.

• Why people resist change 10 reasons why people resist change

• The role of a change champion What change champions do. Qualities of a change champion. How change champions solve problems and inspire us. A tribute to change champions who have changed our lives.

 

Project management

• The power of you - leave your mark How project managers use emotional intelligence to help keep their project teams motivated to reach the finish line. By Susan Ksiezopolski.

Organizational restructuring

• The role of a change agent during an organizational restructuring. An organisational restructuring is like a hurricane, that knocks down everyone in its path, leaving a trail of destruction behind it. This article shows the role that you as a change agent can play, to help your clients ( leaders, teams and individuals) to get up again.