Steve Sharp

Merry Christmas to you and all those closest to you. Cheers 🎄🏖️

End-of-year gatherings can be a significant step towards finding a team in a group of individuals. Get out of the office, into a new environment and do something social.

And it's also a good idea to find time to kick off the new year and check back in with your people after the break. Team offsites where you can work together as a group on a different set of challenges to solve a problem together. The investment you make in these get-togethers can make a big difference to what can be achieved as a group.

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A few smiling faces at the completion of a recent leadership training course. This was a great bunch who put in 100% throughout the workshop. It was also an ideal way to close out the year, with team leaders having the opportunity to reset values and goals before the break.

Have you scheduled your leadership workshops for 2023 yet?

The way we connect and engage with our teams is important.

The way we communicate and the way we react in difficult situations. Defined leadership abilities are becoming more important than ever. Why? Because the makeup of our organisations consists increasingly of roles that are more and more diverse in their requirements. Add to that; we seemingly operate in a time of rapid and constant change. To sustain the pressure, there's a skill that's becoming more and more in demand.

Harvard Business Review lists the c-suite skills that matter the most these days as being social skills.

Social skills, defined as, "a high level of self-awareness, the ability to listen and communicate well, a facility for working with different types of people and groups, and what psychologists call “theory of mind”—the capacity to infer how others are thinking and feeling."

You can read more about it here at https://hbr.org/2022/07/the-c-suite-skills-that-matter-most

Are you actively building this in your current teams? How much priority are you placing on these skills when you recruit? Some great questions are being asked within, and from where I sit, they're very good ones to ask!

https://hbr.org/2022/07/the-c-suite-skills-that-matter-most

Psychological Safety. It matters just as much in the office as it does on the worksite and the production line.

There's a lot of more to yet be uncovered on the value to be achieved in cultivating psychologically safe environments. It's not just about mental health, though incredibly important, but it's also a pathway, in my view, to high-performance teams who love what they do and who they do it for.

Check out my recent blog for more on the topic.

https://www.stevesharp.com.au/news/psychological-safety-the-fuel-for-high-performance

Anyone else relate? Memes

Anyone else relate? Work Memes

Connection.
Clarity.
Capability.

It's called the 3 C's, a game-changer for the organisations that get it right.

It starts first with building connections within teams, the critical social thread needed in the workplace today.

It requires clear communication from the team leader for total clarity about what's expected- both you or your people and your people of you.

And it continually requires the building of capability within each level of the group.

It's my approach to building high-performance teams, and in my leadership development workshops and leadership retreats, I break down the deep research and real-world experience that led me to develop the 3 C's principle.

Connect with me to know how I can help your organisation.

We all know that feeling! 😆

Thank you for the kind words Jade ⭐

Here's a quick to a recent Leadership workshop I had the pleasure of facilitating for Centrepoint Alliance. We had a great 3 days working through the philosophies, theories and real-world experience that has shaped the SHARPEN method.

If you're looking to kick start your 2023 setting and resetting for your leaders how they can create awesome work environments, where their people want to bring their best selves to work, let me help. Reach out via the website, and I'll be pleased to put together a recommendation.

Today we pay our respects.