How to have brilliant performance conversations - May 2023.
For this month’s Purple Sky Thinking for Leaders, we are going to focus on 1:1 performance conversations, not every interaction, but I would encourage you to get into the mindset of considering every interaction as a performance conversation. If you do this, they become less of an event and more of a continuation, just part of how you lead your team.
The aim of this edition is to enable you to build your own structure for brilliant 1:1 performance conversations. This isn’t about the ‘annual performance review’ if this is something your organisation has, but if these 1:1 performance conversations are done really well throughout the year, you’ve created great foundations for that process too.
April 2023 – How you influence the performance of your team.
March 2023 - How to prepare for conversations about racism
Welcome to March’s Purple Sky Thinking for Leaders. Each month, this self-guided learning resource is an opportunity to discover a new way of doing something or to reflect on and refresh how you currently approach an aspect of your leadership.
In last month’s edition, we looked at ‘Building the foundations for brilliant conversations’ as an important step to leading successful conversations with your team about racism.
Racism continues in our organisations and society; you only have to look at the recently published report into The Met by Louise Casey to see that these issues are still prevalent and wide-ranging. We are all responsible for understanding, recognising, confronting, and changing it. We must face it, and as leaders, we are responsible for seeking out and removing the circumstances, behaviours and systems contributing to and maintaining racism in our workplaces.
By focusing on racism, I want to bring it forward as a conversation that matters and a conversation you should be leading with your team. This is about tackling racism in your work so you and your team can demonstrate you are actually doing that, changing the way things are done and influencing culture for long-term change.
Purple Sky Thinking for Leaders - February 2023
In this edition, I’ll be sharing some ideas about how you can build the foundations for brilliant conversations, as next month we’ll focus on how to have a conversation with your team about racism.
To have productive and transformative conversations about important topics such as racism, your team must be able to handle it.
Purple Sky Thinking for Leaders - January 2023
My monthly leadership learning blog - a self-guided learning resource for leaders. In January 2023 we are looking at how best to Review, Reflect and Re-engage.