Dr Robert N. Winter

Dr Robert N. Winter

Leadership

InBusiness Leadership Management

Leading Change and Managing Complexity

When Line Managers lack the hard skills of process design and implementation, the capacity to initiate changes in procedure, or the ability to write sound policy, and instead try to *lead* their team to success by hiring or co-opting other managers in the business to solve their problems, an engine of chaos is created.

3 December 2023

InBusiness Leadership Management Psychology

The Ties of Informal Leadership

Structural and qualitative criteria can be applied in analysing employee interactions to answer: Are the people in my team effective informal leaders or merely highly social people building their brand?

26 November 2023

InBusiness Leadership Management

The Boundaries of Informal Leadership

Strengthened organisational hierarchies can be a path out of the mire of evermore specialised roles and excessively collaborative work environments. However, even with an effective and open hierarchy in place, informal leadership is critical to organisational efficiency and success.

19 November 2023

InBusiness Management Psychology

Are Hierarchies Healthy for Organisations?

You can have high performing teams with deep hierarchies, so long as there is an open model to knowledge access. But when knowledge hiding goes on, hierarchies tend to erode team performance.

8 October 2023

InBusiness Management

Managing as a Coach

By stepping away from being a subject matter expert and toward a focus on people and coaching, a manager is in a much better position to transform their job into a leadership role.

30 September 2023

InBusiness Management

The Value of a Chief of Staff

A good CoS helps a leader achieve their potential in a sustainable way that delivers long term success when managing complex organisations.

23 September 2023

InBusiness Management Psychology

Leading Psychological Safety in Teams

The challenges in creating psychological safety are in some ways more complex for managers because they not only need to lead the process, but also lead themselves in the initiation of the process.

16 September 2023

InBusiness Management

Recovery Experiences and Your Mood at Work

By taking charge of our recovery experiences, we have the power to become masters of our mood at work.

3 September 2023

InBusiness Management

Running Effective Meetings

Meetings are the space in our day we make to provide some sort of service to other people.

27 August 2023

InBusiness Management Psychology

A Psychological Safety Primer

Going against the grain may make people feel unsafe, yet it is through this process that true psychological safety is ultimately achieved — because people feel safe to feel unsafe and to challenge the status quo.

20 August 2023

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Management

DEI: A Continuum of Acceptance, Understanding, and Questioning

Successful DEI comes down to balance — ensuring that belief doesn't descend into ideology. A process that is founded on the bedrock of psychological safety.

12 August 2023

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Management Technology

Leading AI-First Organisations

By employing leaders capable of creating an AI framework — because they are awake and aware to the unintended effects of AI on social well-being, data integrity and privacy, diversity, and governance — organisations seeking to transform into being AI-first are well positioned to engage in trustworthy and responsible AI use.

5 August 2023

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Management Psychology

Forging Resilience Through Adaptability

As our adaptability mindset strengthens, resilience will also improve because individuals and teams are better equipped to absorb shocks today and use the energy to bounce forward into sustainable growth tomorrow.

29 July 2023

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Leadership Management

Leading At Scale

When leadership is exerted in this form, organisations become increasingly accountable, agile, and autonomous — all the while operating at scale. At this point, an organisation can truly be described as 'purpose-driven' — a genuinely awesome competitive advantage.

23 July 2023

InFY24 Strategic Outlook Management

Remote Working Policies

Setting boundaries will see some employee attrition, but those who remain will feel a heightened sense of trust and an improved quality of employment.

15 July 2023

InBusiness FY24 Strategic Outlook Management

Minding the Capability Gap

Once the capability gap is closed, instead of feeling fear and frustration about not knowing how to perform a role or achieve an outcome, staff are empowered to deliver value and be rewarded for their achievement.

8 July 2023

InBusiness FY24 Strategic Outlook Management

A Challenging Time for Talent Management

In an era of heightened employee mobility, hybrid work environments, and a skills shortage, the idea of matching great talent with critical roles may not be new, but it is more essential than ever.

1 July 2023

InBusiness FY24 Strategic Outlook Management

Recovering From The Great Attrition

The challenge for managers is that we are no longer comparing apples with apples. Instead, we must leverage the power of personas to better understand the individuals that make up our teams.

25 June 2023

InBusiness FY24 Strategic Outlook Management Psychology

Mental Health As A Strategic Issue

While the overall numbers of people affected by mental health issues is a cause for concern, perhaps as alarming are the number of firms or individual managers who engaging in well-being washing.

17 June 2023

InBusiness FY24 Strategic Outlook Management

Be Bold With Efficiency Aspirations

By tackling some of the common problems, teams and organisations will be well placed to achieve aspirational efficiency objectives. When this happens, we can get one of those virtuous circles in which the approach sticks and compounds over the years.

11 June 2023

InBusiness Leadership Management

Anchoring Teams Through Transformation

By adopting this approach, we will not only end up writing good, albeit not perfect, OKRs, but also take that vital step in the practice of management; taking individuals or teams outside their zone of comfort to learn, improve, and explore — ultimately achieving meaningful transformation that unlocks value for the organisation.

4 June 2023

InBusiness Leadership

Sustaining Value in the Transformation Life Cycle

No fixed set of actions can define, measure, or achieve success. Thus, trying to make transformation a tick box affair is to setup an organisation for failure. This is because successful transformation is as much about the process as it is about the outcome.

28 May 2023

InBusiness Generations Leadership

Enabling Managers in a GenMe Landscape

Providing more structure, not less, in both the daily tasks of employees and their perceptions about career pathways, offers the strongest viable path to improved staff retention and higher team performance.

21 May 2023

InBusiness Generations Leadership

Challenges for Leadership when Managing GenMe

By reframing the leadership models presented, propositions for managers can be advanced to enable better leadership of people with GenMe attitudes.

14 May 2023

InBusiness Generations Leadership Social Comment

Leading GenMe

Given the obvious dichotomy in this approach to work generations, the practical implications for management are that the leadership theories many have encountered will struggle to provide solutions when it comes to developing coherent teams.

7 May 2023

InBusiness Leadership

Great Managers Free Up Their Time

Managers often fail to build autonomous teams,keeping themselves in a job to solve for problems which should have long since been put behind the organisation.

29 April 2023

InBusiness Leadership

The Effective WIP

The value of a WIP is to discuss and monitor results. Unpacking how the outcomes of work relate to the organisation's strategic goals.

2 April 2023

InBusiness Leadership

Questions for a Future Employer

An interview is a crossroad, one at which you are making a choice between merely seeking a job and wage or using the opportunity to grow a career.

1 November 2022

InBusiness Leadership

Responsibility, Ownership, Accountability

These are words we use often in an organisational context, but words that are seldom discussed; and when discussed, often done so opaquely or inaccurately.

4 October 2022

InLeadership Social Comment Technology

Jotting – Anatomy of a Search Engine

I wonder if there is an alternative reading in which they did not make a conscious decision to be 'evil'?

4 June 2022

InBusiness Leadership Philosophy Response

Response — Sitting with Ambiguity

Sit with ambiguity, but be aware of when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping that a drawn out conversation will nail down the problem.

12 February 2022

InLeadership Politics

Teflon Leadership

Those who rise to the top jobs, do so not because they are better leaders or have fewer blots on their copybook — it is because they are better able to shrug off criticism and weather the blistering attacks that are directed at all holders of public office.

23 January 2022

InBusiness Leadership

Five Stages of Autonomy

At this stage, employees, whether remote or in an office, enjoy true autonomy. The Nirvana Mullenweg and Co. are in search of for their businesses.

13 July 2020

InBusiness Leadership

A Change Management Primer

Knowing this only shifts the problem from 'how' to 'when'. In other words, at what speed should the change management take place?

5 July 2020

InLeadership

Ode to a Yoghurt Pot

Bellowing preconceived ideas with ever increasing volume is seldom a path to organisational success and Vedic happiness.

3 July 2020

InLeadership

Leading From The Front

Plato wrote of cardinal virtues and their importance in the character of a good city. It is tempting to pickup this theme in regards to leadership.

27 June 2020

InHistory Leadership Philosophy Social Comment

Media Archipelago

Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to 'wrongspeak,' 'the things we believe to be true but cannot say,' creating a Media Archipelago.

10 June 2020

InBusiness Leadership Philosophy

‘I’ and ‘Me’

The notion that the 'significant symbols,' found in the harmony between the projected and received understanding of the gesture which transports meaning between employee and manager, are not fixed, but are subject to continual recreation allowing infinite flexibility when assessing project planning.

12 June 2017

InBusiness Leadership Philosophy

No One Is To Blame For Misbehaviour

Variability in people leads to variability in the anticipated behaviour. In this context there is always a degree of unpredictability in behaviour.

19 May 2017

InLeadership Philosophy

Leadership: A Human Encounter

In the postmodern age, we are surrounded by more heroes than in a Homeric epic, with football players, life guards and even movie stars being thrown into the mix.

18 February 2017

InBusiness Leadership

Patagonia Traditional CSR, Strategic CSR or CSV

CSR only has a limited connection to the business while CSV is 'integral to a company’s profitability and competitive position.'

20 June 2015

InLeadership Politics Science

Climate Change, Political Stagnation

The satirical ‘Yes Prime Minister’ quipped about international organizations: Hacker: But surely we’re all committed to the European ideal?Sir Humphrey:…

20 December 2009

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