Blog | Justin Maree Cox | Developing Leadership Skills

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…

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…

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…

Your time is limited, use it wisely. Here are 5 easy ways you can reclaim your time and make the most of what you have. First Five Minutes STOP - do not open your email it's a sure way to get caught in the proverbial rabbit hole before the day has even got going. Take…

It’s Monday morning, the sun is shining and you’re feeling optimistic about the week. You’ve got a brand new piece of paper, your best pen and you start your to-do list. You are scribbling madly, it’s a long, long list then you notice an email comes in. It’s a customer query that needs your attention,…

The end of the year is an interesting time for us all. Some of us have been riding the waves of success and will be celebrating a fabulous year and others have been swimming upstream and will be ready to let go of the year with hopes that next year will be better. Regardless of…

With the end in mind, I learnt management is not the answer. As a human resources professional I have been involved in the design, implementation and review of numerous performance management systems. However I began to realise that I had it all wrong, and it started with a particularly uncomfortable poor performance challenge that I supported a manager with. When I looked at…

VALUE YOUR TIME - Your time is a limited resource, 1440 minutes in every day is all you get and you have lots competing for those precious minutes. Valuing your time is really about being mindful of the choices you make on how you use that time, and having a simple routine that enables you to…

How many times have you said yes when you really wanted to say no? Last week I found myself agreeing to do something when every fibre within me was screaming NO! So why is it so hard to utter that one simple word?  There are a range of reasons that each one of us finds it hard…

Being successful in business comes down to the key decisions you make. What I have found, through personal experience and working with my clients, is that great decisions start with asking the right questions. Questions challenge our thinking, spark curiosity, create new ideas, fuel conversation and can motivate us to move forward. So what is…