Tim Millett - Articles

Challenging Yourself Through Adaptive Leadership

Have you wondered why some companies seem able to handle whatever comes their way including the difficult economic conditions over the last year? While other companies go bankrupt, the successful companies deliver results over and over again. If you could look inside these companies there’s a good chance you will find adaptive leaders who remain invigorated and ready to accept any challenges coming their way while becoming change agents. Read

By: Tim Millett | 09/11/2009 | Training

Being a Coach of Yourself and Your Team Members

When discussing the role of a business coach, there is one thing that must be cleared up immediately. Your team is composed of all people depending on you for direction. Obviously the higher you are in the organisation, the deeper and wider your team will be. Read

By: Tim Millett | 26/10/2009 | Training

Attitude and Its 7 Reasons for Being

When you read the Merriam-Webster definition for attitude, there is a list of 7 different explanations as to how the word can be used. Reading down the list it is abundantly clear that attitude is not only a state of emotional or physical being but it is also something we consciously choose to adopt. In effect, attitude reflects a decision that has been made about a response to stimuli. Read

By: Tim Millett | 12/10/2009 | Training

Effective Personal Organisation

Are you a victim of your own work environment? Are you confronted daily with an overwhelming amount of work that seems to keep you racing to stay on track much less get ahead? Are you always losing things, redoing work you can’t find, doing the wrong work or failing to meet your organisational project deadlines? Do you constantly feel like you are under pressure even before you get to work because you know exactly how the day is going to unravel? Read

By: Tim Millett | 29/09/2009 | Training

Motivating Staff…What’s the Buzz?

Sometimes it seems like a world of buzzwords when you read about employee “empowerment” and “improving morale” and even “motivating staff”. It’s easy to throw the buzzwords around, but issues that are so critical to a company should not be “buzzing”. This is especially true when addressing the issue of motivation. Read

By: Tim Millett | 14/09/2009 | Training

When Expectations are Not Met Within a Company

Companies spend a lot of time trying to understand why certain goals or expectations are not met within the organisation. There are individuals who fail to get their work done in a timely manner. There are managers overseeing departments that never seem to be capable of meeting a deadline or are always turning in late reports. There is also the project team which seems to spend more time trying to decide what needs to be done rather than actually producing results. Read

By: Tim Millett | 31/08/2009 | Education

Creating Positive First Impressions

Are you moving into a new role within your business? Maybe you are moving companies altogether and you are about to meet a whole new team for the first time? No matter what the situation that all important first impression is crucial if you want to get off on the right foot. Most of the time, you will get an opportunity to introduce yourself to each individual team member, as well as to the whole group. Read

By: Tim Millett | 28/08/2009 | Education

Creating A Motivating Environment

No one likes working for a company where they don’t feel motivated to succeed. And there is no doubt that the best, most active and successful companies are those where the workforce is inspired to do great things. Motivation can come from the individual of course, but it can and should also come from those in positions of power. Read

By: Tim Millett | 28/08/2009 | Education

Creative Problem Solving Leads to Organisational Innovation

The words “creative problem solving” have almost become more like buzzwords tossed around the workplace and never really landing anywhere. Everyone knows intuitively that creative problem solving can work, and it’s the “thing to do” in a participatory organisation, but exactly what does it mean and what benefits can be obtained? Read

By: Tim Millett | 28/08/2009 | Education

Selecting a Project Team

To be brutally honest, one of the worst first steps you can take to build a team is to say, “Any volunteers?” It is not that volunteering for a team project is bad per se. It is that the ones who volunteer may or may not be the best representatives to add to your team. Their motivations are right and their desire is strong, but do they have the right qualities to fit the project being developed? Selecting a project team is one of the most important steps your company . Read

By: Tim Millett | 20/08/2009 | Education