Active Leaders: July 2024

Welcome back to our Active Leaders Newsletter. Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who’s joined us so far. If you’re a new subscriber, welcome. We put this newsletter together to spark conversation and build a community around leadership development. Please leave a comment with your thoughts and share this with anybody you think might be interested.?

Here’s some exciting news from what we’ve been up to this month:?

• One of our advisers is literally a rocket scientist in AI. Brian Russell was developing wearable technologies for NASA and US DoD 15 years ago and has recently completed his PhD in AI. We’ve been working with him on how to leverage AI in learning. ?

• Congratulations to AS Wilcox who have just graduated their second Active Manager Program cohort!?

• We’ve started new cohorts at Barnardos, Apata, Genera Biosecurity, Golden Homes Queenstown, Dialog Fitzroy, EastPack, Croucher and Crowder, Storepro, and Falcon Express Logisitics.

Let's get into it.

HBR – 3 Ways to Compassionately Hold Your Team Accountable?

Why are some teams more successful than others when it comes to meeting deadlines, hitting targets, and growing revenues? Researchers at the NeuroLeadership Institute looked at the cognitive processes associated with leaders who cultivate accountability on their teams. They identified three distinct habits practiced by these leaders: They think ahead, obsess about commitments, and anchor on solutions.?

Read the full article here.?

Quote?

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou?

Chairman of The Bored?

Abstract: Boredom is a management failure. In this month's leadership piece, Dr. Mike explores boredom at work, how it is affected by leadership, and why boredom is rare in high-performance cultures. So how do you keep your team engaged and continuously growing? Read more...?

Podcast?

Nadine Tereora, CEO of New Zealand Automobile Association, on how you become a leader worth following.?

In this month’s featured podcast episode,?Nadine shares her top three leadership insights; a great combination of her hard-earned lessons, observations as a leader,?how these helped her to learn how to be her authentic self, and that failure is inevitable in leadership. But it's how you recover from those failures that is?important.?

Listen to the podcast here?

Microlearning?

Move Your Career Forward?

Dr Mike talks about the next level for lifting your game – how to move your career forward. Use this clear simple process to help you figure out where you want to go and how you’re going to get there.?Check?

Video?

Take a few minutes to step away from the whirlwind, watch and listen to this beautiful video?

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Until next month,?

Dr Mike?

Founder, The Breakthrough Co?