Blog Posts
The Voice of Reason
When everyone around you seems to going mad, will you be the voice of reason? When you are going mad will someone be your voice of reason? Before I continue please note – this blog post is not titled “The Voice of The Reasons”. There are plenty of those I […]
Can’t wait …..
Can’t wait. Living in the Western Cape we are hearing these two words followed mainly by the following words – …. for the rains to come. This makes perfect sense considering the severe drought we find ourselves in. We need the rain but according to our past rainfall patterns it […]
Love me for a reason ….
“Love me for a reason …” It’s a line from a song. As it so often happens we hear songs while traveling in our cars and this was such a case. “Love me for a reason, and let the reason be love.” I didn’t choose the song, I chose to […]
Leaders that discredit leadership
As I fly back to the Cape my thoughts turn to leadership and to some of the goings on in the Southern tip of our continent at present. When people talk about leadership, I have noticed a tendency toward “half-fullness.” The word tends to get people to lean toward the […]
My activity and me
I love asking people how they are as I generally do care, and I am fascinated by the answers I receive. Some of my least favourite to hear: Hectic. Busy. It does not help to complain. I recently ran a session where we spent time exploring the difference between ourselves […]
Dust storms and dust settling
As dust settles we begin to see things clearly again. Clarity can be impaired by a wide variety of factors from a lack of light to presence of dust or fog in the air. Success in life, business, relationships, in fact in all the roles we play, depends on clarity […]
One-on-One Coaching
Individually based interventionsThe Ripple Effect’s One-on-One Mentoring shifts the emphasis from group work to individually–based interventions. The approach is based on the observation that a team is the collective sum of individual capacity and capability. It incorporates the experience gained through facilitating interventions with a vast number of organisations ranging […]
Strategic Planning
The EQ behind Strategic Planning Many people will feel that it cannot add value to use an outsider to facilitate strategy sessions as such a person will not know the business and the vision as well as the team members do. They would be right in thinking this. When we facilitate we drive due […]
Making sense of it all
There is a lot happening. Not only in my personal life with a change in what we call home, in our business with new product offerings gaining traction, in our clients where everything that does happen in business is happening, in South African business where an iconic brand like KPMG […]
Goals, Roles & Souls
Goals, Roles and Souls tailored workshopsThese tailored team interventions are a very effective change management tool. They are ideal for any team from any industry regardless of team size. They are designed to promote the idea that success in a team comes from having every team member pull in the […]