Musings from an Introverted Leader
As some people may have noticed its been a while since I posted an article to my website, I have kept up my Instagram account #thegeekyintrovertedleader and my facebook page TheGeekyIntrovertedLeader, but the cost of maintaining the website seems unnecessary when I can just post on LinkedIn and reach a bigger audience. With that said Read more about So long, Farewell….[…]
Most recently I was lucky enough to attend the MORE leadership summit up in Auckland which is run by the amazing, talented, Rebecca Morris from Paradigm Shift . There were many fantastic speakers and I definitely found some gems of wisdom and knowledge throughout the day. One of these gems was more of a reminder as Read more about The Ego States[…]
Every year leaders take there team through a performance review and every year the process doesn’t seem to get any easier or get any more buy in from their employees. I would even go so far as to say that most leaders and managers dread performance review season as much as their team does. It Read more about Performance Reviews: Yay? or Nay?[…]
About 7 and a half years ago after my daughter was born in a emergency C Section, I developed post natal depression, then the February earthquake hit Christchurch and my post natal depression turned into full blown depression. Not really knowing much about mental health back then I tried to hide it. I felt guilty Read more about The winter blues[…]
I am very excited to announce The introverted leader’s first competition. Thanks to Greg Layton the author of Chief Maker, I have one of his amazing books to give away to four lucky people. All you need to do is make sure that you 1) Like the The Introverted Leader facebook page. 2) Like the Read more about Competition: Chief Maker by Greg Layton[…]
It’s currently that time of year when everyone is scrambling around trying to complete their performance review that they have left until the last minute. However within this chaos I have received some pretty great feedback, both positive and constructive. Today I want to talk about some of the feedback I received because I found Read more about The comfort zone[…]
Now I know that this isn’t just IT that other department’s dislike, IT doesn’t like HR, HR doesn’t like Marketing, and don’t even get me started on Sales… and so on and so forth. But why? Why does there seem to be an us versus them mentality, a bunch of silo’s, and lots of division Read more about Why does everyone hate the IT department?[…]
I have been discussing with people lately how to organise yourself and your work, especially when you have a personality that craves some structure and organisation, but the organisation you work in seems higgledy-piggledy (and yes that is the technical term for it). Personally I need some structure in my life, some routine, and, as Read more about Organised, Structured, and a little bit of a Perfectionist (Ok a lot)[…]
Lately I have been thinking about the difference between influencing and manipulating, and which one of those categories some of my actions fall into. So I decided to read up on it to get a proper understanding of the differences. Influence is defined many ways, here is one of them: the capacity or power of Read more about Influencing vs Manipulation[…]
Today’s book review comes from a friend and leader in his own right Kevin Field, Kevin isn’t just a people leader but also has proven that you don’t have to be a team leader or manager to be a leader within your organisation. He has a leadership, training, support and technical background in the IT Read more about Guest Blogger Kevin Field: Book Review – Turn the ship around[…]