insium's newsletter on leadership: January, 2017
Written by geoff Tuesday, 24 January 2017 00:00
Leading with Courage in a VUCA World
Sustaining organisational performance in an environment that is volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) (Bennett & Lemoine, 2014) is challenging and falls to the leadership within an organisation. This environment has contributed to corporate scandals including that of Enron in 2001 and Lehman Brothers in 2008. Might the collapse of both of these organisations have been averted by a strong expression of courage by senior and executive employees? Might courage – defined as "an intentional constructive or moral action taken by an individual in the presence of perceived personal risk, fear and uncertainty of outcome (personal or organisational) in order to resolve or avert an organisational dilemma" – avert further global collapses?
How can others find out about what you do and how you do it? How do people know about your competencies, your beliefs and your values? Just like the products you buy in stores or online, you have a "brand" that gives others an idea of what you're about.
In an excerpt from her presentation at the veski "Inspiring Women" workshop, watch insium Director & Founder Dina Pozzo share some important insights into how you can develop and build your own personal brand. Click the "Read More" button to view.
#notmypresident – a hashtag that is trending at the moment. No doubt you’ll have seen or heard news about the many protests in the USA, in response to Donald Trump becoming President-Elect.
Regardless of your opinion regarding the outcome, as a leader, how would you lead in this situation? How would you support an unpopular outcome? How would you maintain energy and positive mood for yourself and your associates?
You may have seen footage of Hilary Clinton’s concession speech and/or President Barack Obama’s response to the outcome. What would your advice be to those who do not support the result? To those who do? How would you call upon everyone to remain united? What connections would you make with others? Encourage others to make?
insium's newsletter on leadership: November, 2016
Written by geoff Friday, 11 November 2016 00:00
Raising the bat - 50 insium newsletters!
insium was formed in 2005 and in 2006 insium dispatched its first e-newsletter. Now in 2016 we've brought up our 50 - and have no intention of declaring our innings closed yet!
Our first newsletter covered the results of our annual client survey, as well as articles on the following topics:
- Insights From Some Truly Inspirational People
- Empower Your Direct Reports by Asking Better Questions
- Making Business Change Sustainable
Many of our newsletters have focused on the topic of "Leadership", and we've often been asked for copies of previous newsletters on this topic that people would like to refer to. With this in mind, we've decided to collate some of these and put them into e-book form. If you'd like to obtain a copy, please get in touch with us.
I'm a moderately active person. I play netball once a week; I like to go for a run 2-3 times a week; and with Geoff, I walk the dogs every day. Playing a number of different sports throughout my life, I've had my share of injuries which is not surprising. But I never thought I'd get injured from sitting down for too long.
The importance of getting up from my desk and stretching regularly has been made very apparent to me. I have scaled back work quite considerably over the past 4 weeks so that I can focus on my University Capstone project. This has meant considerably more time sitting at my desk, which has resulted in an injury to my neck and shoulder with headaches where I could not think ... all because I was sitting for too long. Headaches have gone, neck and shoulder on the mend with still limited movement, which has also meant no running and netball.