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A successful business succeeds with emotionally intelligent leaders who understand how to balance their teams’ energies with their own. They engage consciously with different energies to maximise the contributions from each profile within the team. even from those who are directly opposite to their own natural energy. Activating Profiles Calibrator / Catalyst / Champion As […]

While we all have the ability to develop a broad range of skills and learnt behaviours, in critical moments we tend to respond in a particular way. In the Contribution Compass, there are four natural energies that combine in varying degrees for every person thereby providing a unique profile that highlights how that person is […]

Understanding your natural energy is the first step in finding your personal flow as it shapes the way that you naturally think, communicate and operate. The state of flow, or the ”Zone” as it is sometimes referred to in sports, is where there is little, or no resistance and our lives unfold in a way […]

Have you ever found yourself thinking: I wish I could get my team to take more ownership? Do you wonder why you can’t find people who are as committed as you? Does it feel like some of your people always seem to want to block the new ideas or innovations you have which frustrates you? […]

One of the most frustrating signs of team disengagement can be a lack of communication.  For example, a team member who was once open and informative suddenly becomes more withdrawn.  This often shows up at team meetings where they have begun to give simple yes and no responses to your questions and started sitting at […]

If you have a team member who has suddenly started to whine and complain it could be a sign that they have disengaged from your business and are moving on to another one.  In my experience, people will often start complaining as a pre-frame to help them justify their decision to look elsewhere and to […]

If you are starting to experience pushback or resistance to any requests from a team member it can be one of the less obvious signs of disengagement. There can be a plethora of reasons why people don’t like to do some extra tasks in the workplace, and they don’t always indicate disengagement. Let’s consider some of the […]

We all experience apathy at some stage, some of us more often than others. When a team member has become more apathetic than they have been in the past we need to ask ourselves, is it circumstantial or has it now become part of their daily routine? The easy one to solve is “circumstantial”. The general malaise […]