by michelleloch | Aug 16, 2016 | Articles, Leadership
Whilst the great George Orwell in this infamous line was making reference to political irony, and also an acknowledgement of the futility of absolutes, there is some irony in how we view the conversations in our workplaces. There are conversations…and then there...
by michelleloch | Jun 27, 2016 | Articles, Leadership, Team
The statistics are compelling… Leaders spend 80% of their time in conversation. On average, an employee spends around 37% of their time in meetings – which are essentially group conversations. That’s a rather large percentage of the time spent in the workplace on...
by michelleloch | Jun 16, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Leadership, Personal, Team
Someone will always win – let it be you! My friend ‘Harold’ and I were yesterday discussing the critical impact that conversations have on the culture and performance of an organisation. Harold is a highly respected and experienced businessman and consultant,...
by michelleloch | Apr 27, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Leadership, Team
I’d like to hedge a bet and say never, or at least rarely! One of the challenges of being human, is the limited capacity of our ‘thinking’ brain. Whilst it is powerful in many ways, it is also quite limited in its capacity to think though complexity. The pre-frontal...
by michelleloch | Apr 8, 2016 | Articles, Brain, Conversations, Leadership
‘We are heading into a two-year change transformation phase’ I hear this all the time from clients. What do they really mean? They mean that things are not quite working the way they want or need, and they need to change how things are done – they need to...
by michelleloch | Feb 22, 2016 | Articles, Leadership
I’ve been hearing and reading a lot lately about the Millennial Mindset and the need for leaders to stop avoiding and start embracing it. So who are these Millennial’s? Technically, depending on who you ask, they are a generation born post 1980 (ish), they are about...
