Leadership Blog Posts and Peter Cox Live
Creating a Positive Mindset in Your Team in Challenging Times. Building Unity and Harmony, Part 3.
There was an incredibly interesting and, in my opinion, a mind-blowing study conducted in 1981 by Psychologist Ellen Langer on the power of the mind and aging. She recruited 8 men in their 70’s and placed them for 5 days in a converted monastery in New...
How to Make the Tough Decisions to Create Unity and Harmony. Building Unity and Harmony, Part 2.
In the late 1800s, in a brick building in New Jersey, America, Thomas Edison formed a dream team to invent, as Thomas put it, “useful things every man, woman, and child in the world wants…. at a price they can afford to pay.” Thomas’ team was a diverse one -...
How to Really Know and Understand Your People to Build Unity and Harmony. Building Unity and Harmony. Part 1.
Unity and harmony - sometimes these can feel like a pipe dream and sometimes you don't know if you'll ever be able to create a harmonious environment. Though you know that conflict, ill feelings, gossip, frustration, and team misalignments – unity and harmony issues –...
How a Difficult Decision by a President Changed the Course of History.
“Death is stalking us the same way it stalked the French. Tell the boys not to come here, to stay home. If they can get even only $1 a day, tell them to take it." This was the common sentiment of many letters back home to families from workers on the...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 9: Cost Effective Ways to Up Skill Your People.
In a study conducted in 2014, it was found that: A staggering 75% of Australian employees said their workplaces need better managers and better leaders. 75%!! In this new COVID 19 world we’re dealing with right now, we really need better leaders and better...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 8: How to Super Charge Your Team.
“What gets recognised and rewarded gets done”. It's vital that when you lead people and lead teams, you recognise, reward and celebrate the achievements, successes and milestones that occur within your business, team, or organisation as it super-charges your...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 7: Finding Your Untapped Leaders
You could have a valuable untapped resource right now, sitting in plain sight in your business or organisation - resource that you could utilise to assist you in navigating your remote team through these tricky and turbulent COVID19 times and beyond. No doubt...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 6: Powerful Communication – the What, How and When
There’s A LOT of communication going on in the world right now, and it’s mostly negative and fear-provoking communication, and it has de-railed even some of the strongest among us. Every day you only have to turn on the news or check your social media...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 5: Harnessing the Power of One On Ones
One on one communication - there’s never been a time in recent history than right now for leaders to ensure they’re deliberately taking regular time to communicate with their key people one on one. All great organisations, businesses, and teams are built upon...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 4: Caring Where Your People are Emotionally
“Nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care” President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. In this blog we’ll cover: 1. Why it's important you know where your team is emotionally, particularly when working remotely. 2. How to...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 3: Growing and Transferring Trust.
There’s a great deal of trust that goes into allowing your team to work remotely, and under normal circumstances, you’d usually allow this for team members who have earned your trust over time, proving they can work just as effectively working remotely, away from you,...
How to Effectively Lead Remote Teams. Part 2. Setting Clear Expectations and Driving Accountability to Them.
In this blog we’ll cover: How to develop clear and engaging expectations for you and your people. How to communicate them clearly so there is no confusion or doubt. How to drive accountability to the expectations you set. Did you know, according...