Behind The Scenes

New Beginnings

 

I’m a huge fan of comedy and laughter, but I’m dead serious about workplace environments and whether they’re good for us.

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If you’re a leader who’s tired, stretched thin and quietly wondering whether you’re the problem. It isn’t you. You are one of many effects, not the cause.

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Right now, only 22% of managers worldwide are engaged at work. In best-practice organisations, it’s 79%, nearly four times higher.¹ Those organisations span every region and every industry. So it isn’t the nature of the work. It’s the conditions underneath, surrounding and supporting (or not) the people.

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For a lot of leaders, those conditions feel like a concrete load-bearing pole in the middle of the room. Everyone wants it moved. Nobody can shift it. And there’s no one to help.

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But conditions aren’t concrete. They can be named. Discussed. Worked on. Improved. Fixed.

I’ve been on both sides.

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My background is HR, operations and change. I’ve seen what happens when the conditions around a team are right, and what happens when they shift.

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When they’re right, a team does something nobody puts on a KPI report: it learns to absorb. Growth, change, more load, a sudden pivot. It bends without breaking. You move from getting shit done in a shit way to taking pride in how you get it done.

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A team that’s been allowed to breathe becomes strong enough to be bent. A team that’s penned in can’t. And when conditions shift? I’ve been the leader who stopped being a coach for my team and became one of its conditions😬I didn’t know what was broken. I was guessing. I was close. Close isn’t enough.

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What The Olive Tree Method Does

 

It’s the surveyor. It shows you what’s actually there before you decide what to change or build.

It’s not more information to inspire action. It’s information to act on.

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What better looks like for you and your team is yours to decide. My offering is to reveal the conditions around your team, so you can lead the rebuild.​ Because...

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All the leadership techniques in the world can’t fix what you don’t know is broken.

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Doing nothing changes nothing. I don’t want you to do this if it’s going to make things worse, but if you’re ready, let’s talk. 

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Here’s to your new beginnings that I would love to be part of.

​​​Ciao.