Reflecting back on 2024 and looking at what we are engaged in going into 2025, this idea of working on bringing about 'High Performing Teams' is something that has continued to be a feature of what we are doing at Get Knowledge these days.And so, my thoughts on a page...
We're almost at the end of the year. This time of year always brings me around to some element of reflection on how things have gone, how they are going and the general direction it’s all heading in. Nothing new there then and so I thought I would use this months drop...
Having recently started working with a couple of new teams, it always gets me thinking about the dynamics of how they work and fundamentally how they learn, as a team. Peter Senge, a thought leader in the systems thinking space, talks around this idea of "team...
After a couple of conversations I've had over the past few weeks and a bit of reflection on the utility event in May, I'm still struggling to move past this and so i thought i'd give it some more thought and capture a few more reflections. Innovation is a term that...
"I don't have a skills shortage". Maybe not yet but you probably will soon enough.Having recently attended the utility week live event over a couple of days, there was never going to be any other topic than the one that I was invited to sit on the panel for, and not...
A while back i started to have a look at Lencioni's 5 dysfunctions and wrote some thoughts down. After a number of conversations this past week relating to some of the ideas in his model, i went and found my scrawlings and decided to drop them in here. They go back to...
Having been involved in a few conversations and undertaking a fair bit of learning around this subject recently I thought I would capture a few thoughts. A challenge I keep hearing over and over from C-suite level leaders relates to the recruitment and retention of...
This time out, I decided to write some thoughts down around engagement, simply because over Xmas I met up with a good friend who has been operating as a senior leader for decades in various companies. He said something to me that struck a cord around this, he said…...
Trying to find time to think, in between spending time with lots of operational teams, hasn’t come easily this past few weeks. So, when this language floated past my eye again, it triggered off some thinking. "Fixing the basics" - this is a strategic phrase I've seen...
Over the past few weeks I've found myself back in various rooms with lots of people. We seem to have gone from everything being on a screen to events, get togethers, training courses and general meetings all thrown back into the mix, starting now. I'm not complaining,...