Blog | Justin Maree Cox | Developing Leadership Skills

4 Ways to Determine What Type of Leader You Are

Knowing what type of leader you are isn’t just deeply illuminating on a personal level. In the workplace, having a keen understanding of how you lead others can determine if the methods you employ are effective, impactful, and beneficial to your team and your organisation as a whole. Knowing your leadership style can also tell…

How Trust Impacts a Leader

As a leader you need to demonstrate that you’re capable and dependable. Setting and respecting boundaries, following through on your promises and being consistent, are key qualities that people look for in their leader. It is these qualities that help you gain your employees’ trust, which is essential to building a solid relationship with your…

How Can Self-Assessment Benefit You as a Leader?

Taking on the mantle of a leader involves much more than stepping into the role and expecting others to follow you by virtue of your position. To achieve true success as one, it is necessary to master certain responsibilities. In addition to being an effective decision-maker, you also have to be a good manager of…

Why We Can and Should See Ourselves as Leaders

Some people are branded as natural-born leaders because of their innate charisma, influence, conscientiousness, and ability to support others. Others are considered better off as followers in the sense that they are consistent, loyal, trustworthy, and proactive. While this is all well and good, strictly adhering to this dichotomy does limit certain individuals from reaching…

How to Build Purpose and Trust Within Your Team

It can be daunting to find yourself in a leadership position and tasked to manage a new team. Not only do you have to take initiative and give the team direction, but you also have to ensure that your employees work together without any conflict. That said, there needs to be trust within your team…

How to Become a Great Leader by Mastering Your Emotions

It’s no secret that workplaces can be incredibly stressful environments. No one experiences the pressure more acutely than leaders and managers, though. Whatever a workplace’s field or industry, it’s the leaders in them who are most often subjected to additional demands on their attention, focus, and time. All of these can and do take their…

8 Hallmark Traits of Truly Successful Leaders

Leadership styles can vary from person to person. And while these can be vital components to what makes for great leaders, it is how they comport themselves in the position that separates good leaders from truly excellent ones. In most cases, these kinds of traits come to the fore during crises. They are also the…

Don’t manage performance, support it.

I hate the way performance management is used. Supporting your team member to be at their best is not about management. I prefer performance support or check-ins which live and die by the quality of the dialogue. Here are 8 tips to support great performance support discussions. Establish a positive relationship Great performance support starts before the…

Making tough decisions: A habit worth practicing

One of the biggest roadblocks for many business leaders is making decisions and taking action. Making decisions can be difficult, fear of judgement or failure can be a strong motivator for indecisiveness. It can paralyse the best of us. Indecisiveness is really us choosing the possibility that something might be a wrong decision over the…

The Pink Elephant: Deciding not to Decide.

Working with a client who wanted to sell his business and start living a different life, he and his wife were excited to travel more, have more freedom and spend more time with their first grandchild. The great news is he found a buyer, the bad news is he didn't do the deal. Why? He…