Set SMART Goals

Setting SMART goals is an effective way to stay focused and achieve your desired outcomes.

Why it’s important to create a values-based workplace culture

What are your company values? Perhaps as an organisation you place an emphasis on honesty, trust, respect, independence, customer orientation, and accountability? Regardless of the values you identify as being unique for your business, you need to be able to clearly articulate what the values really mean in practice.

Conscious Leadership – Understanding your brain

Most of us can be great leaders when things are going smoothly, but under stress we can slip unconsciously into behaviours which are not ideal. Amuscle we want to help you build is Conscious Leadership through understanding how our brain works.

Systems thinking

What is systems thinking and how to practically apply it in your role?

Why sometimes an inheritance can be more trouble than it’s worth

When you inherit a team, you are basically being asked to lead a team that someone else has built and where up until the moment you accepted the challenge, you had absolutely no say in any of the decisions that had been made previously. And yet now you’ve been put in charge. Check out our post to appreciate the differences between inheriting a team of people as opposed to building a team from scratch.

The differences between ‘managing performance’ and ‘performance management’

For any leader, part of managing employee performance involves truly understanding what makes them tick and showing them that you are genuinely interested in their career, their professional development, and their well-being. More frequent discussions around goal setting, feedback, and career aspirations can actually transform performance. Check out our hellomonday piece on the subtle (or not so subtle) differences between ‘managing performance’ and ‘performance management’.

The incredible power behind one simple question

For any leader, asking a team member whether there is anything else you can help them with at the end of a 1:1 meeting can be an incredibly powerful reinforcement of your commitment to their ongoing professional development. But remember to keep an eye out for the monkeys!

The importance of setting expectations as a leader

Sometimes vague expectations are worse than no expectations at all. Vague expectations create more uncertainty, more of a grey area, and accountability cannot be brought into question. When you set expectations for your teams and individual employees, you need to be crystal clear about exactly how you will measure their success.