Our Director, Jo Eady, was recently invited to be an after dinner speaker at a number of Crop Consultant Australia (CCA) forums across Australia.  With the topic of People and Personalities - Making the Most of Your Business Relationships, a challenge was to make the session relevant, timely and practical so that those who attended could take away some here and now tips and tools to use in their business and with their clients.  In addition to the MBTI refresher workshop, Jo also facilitated a session of wisdom sharing where she asked the audience to think about something they do in their business that is key to its success.  There was no shortage of tips. And Jo shared the wisdom of the One Minute Manager. Read here about One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and One Minute Re-directs.           

Your vision is to develop and grow your leadership skills.  You aspire to participate more fully and contribute to your industry in a meaningful, for the good of all, way.  You want to network with leaders and change-makers and develop relationships that are of value to yourself and others.  You strive to create a future different to your past.

If this sounds familiar, I invite you to read on.  Here, I address a topic rarely talked about – RESPECT.  But it’s one that needs attention and commitment.

And here, I share some tips that will support you to make meaningful and sustainable relationships face to face as well as via social media.

One of the most important things is to set expectations.  We find this very important when people join leadership programs we facilitate.  Many will tell us they want to develop their confidence.  We have come to realise that this is about presence.  Presence is extremely important if you want to be a successful leader.  So how do you develop and increase your presence ….

This year RuralScope facilitated the Australian Grain Leaders Program for Grain Growers Limited.  it is such a great program that supports emerging leaders further develop their leadership skills. This year participants came from almost all grain growing regions of Australia.  Each participant identified a real life issue which they developed into a project.  Throughout the year they applied their leadership knowledge and skills to these projects.  All achieved amazing results in their own growth and contributed greatly to their enterprise and industry. Read about them here....   

Turn any page in a business magazine and you invariably see something about generations x, y and z!  In many articles they outline the characteristics of these generations and leave it at that!  In most workplaces / businesses we visit and or work with, employers, employees, supervisors and team / project leaders are looking for practical tips and hints to better work with their diverse workforce - especially given the national shortfall of employment talent, we are all keen to retain and improve the performance of our current teams.  So some tips, no rocket science, just good leadership and management practices.  No need to get confused by popular psychology!