Reflection Stuff
New Year Planning Tool. Let’s start with my planning tool for the year. Always a favourite, you can access it here.
Leadership for all seasons
How to grow your leadership in every season. This is a wonderful article that looks at the ebbs and flow of our lives through a seasonal metaphor. I’m quite proud of this piece of work! Read it here.
Tough People Stuff
How to deal with silos and turf wars. It’s a frustrating thing when people won’t play nicely! Here we look at what might be causing it, and how to deal with as a leader.
How to deal with a dysfunctional leadership team. When the leadership team isn’t working well, it cascades through the organisation. In this article we dig under the surface and see what could be at fault - it’s usually not just a personality clash.
How to motivate the unmotivated. Unmotivated people are energy vampires. In this article, we look at re-design systems and environments to shift attitude (again - this is less about personality and more about structure).
How to deal with the four devils of people stuff. This concept will be explored more fully in my next book, People Stuff. This article gives a high level overview, with a couple of tips.
People Stuff frameworks that work
People Stuff Frameworks
What kind of emoter are you? This is a wonderful piece of work where I’ve explored the different ways people express (or don’t) their feelings.
Warrior to Elder Leadership. I published a cool series of articles on one of the key models for the new book, People Stuff. Here are the links to the LinkedIn articles:
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Related Articles:
Mid year reflection: time to take stock
Reward or punishment - don’t tell me you’re still doing THAT?
How to be a warrior leader - and why not to be one
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About the author, Canberra leadership expert Zoë Routh:
Canberra based leadership expert, Zoe Routh, shares the best leadership articles of the year.
Zoë Routh is one of Australia’s leading experts on people stuff - the stuff that gets in our way of producing results, and the stuff that lights us up. She works with the growers, makers, builders to make people stuff fun and practical.
Zoë is the author of four books: Composure - How centered leaders make the biggest impact, Moments - Leadership when it matters most, Loyalty - Stop unwanted staff turnover, boost engagement, and build lifelong advocates, and People Stuff - Beyond Personalities: An advanced handbook for leadership. People Stuff was awarded Book of the Year 2020 by the Smart WFM Australian Business Book Awards.
Zoë is also the producer of The Zoë Routh Leadership Podcast.