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January 22, 2025January 22, 2025Leadership

The Key to Building High Performing Teams

People will do things that they are measured on, incentivised and that leads to be celebrated by their leaders. Many leaders often make the mistake of misaligning what is measured, incented and celebrated. The key to be intentional about designing behaviors that could unleash the potential for high performance is to ensure that all the three (behavior that is measured, incentivised and celebrated) are completely aligned. This is so simple and maybe that is why so many leaders miss doing this.

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020Ideas, Leadership

When your coworker does great work, tell their manager

I read this post on my feed and thought this was a very interesting post about recognising one of your co-workers. You can read the entire post here. However, to summarise the post: 1. Ask before you write a glowing email to someone’s manager, if it is ok. There could be many different and valid reasons why someone might not want the praise. 2. And when you do write, be specific about how they helped and the kind of impact it created. 3. Send it to them and their managers. Each of them can use this differently. […]