AuthorSean Craig

Sean is an experienced executive, entrepreneur and author. With a career spanning from early stage start-ups to billion-dollar companies, Sean has a passion for helping organisations achieve great things through the creation of meaningful work experiences for their people. Sean has founded and worked with organisations across industries including consulting, infrastructure, online retail and hospitality. Sean’s other interests include reading, running, practising French (poorly!), design and travel.
10 months ago

The best team members demonstrate these behaviours

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10 months ago
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10July

The best team members demonstrate these behaviours. But other people don’t. What are they? Have you ever noticed that some people are very good at what they do AND easy to work with at the same time? They’re a manager’s dream. Because we spend more time collaborating on interesting problems. And less time battling their behaviour. And – on the occasions when they need to improve or be held...

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10 months ago

The three kinds of feedback great leaders use everyday

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10 months ago
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There are three kinds of feedback great leaders use everyday. But good managers don’t. Here they are 👇 The best leaders create a psychologically safe environment where there is a lot feedback. In all directions. Between peers. To the boss. And from the boss. And it’s driven by one thing: an unambiguous motivation to help one another and the team as a whole improve over the long term. The feedback...

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Monday, 22 June 2020

The importance of values

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Monday, 22 June 2020
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22June

As we’ve discussed in similar articles on both mission and vision statements, organisational values are an often used concept, but rarely well executed. Many organisations have developed a set of values, but very few have applied them in a way that truly and uniquely defines the way they work in practice. If you look up the values of any organisation, you will usually see a list of concepts...

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Tuesday, 9 June 2020

Book summary: The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni

By Sean Craig
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Tuesday, 9 June 2020
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09June

The strongest organisations are those that are healthy, not just smart. Organisational health depends on four disciplines: developing a cohesive leadership team, creating strategic clarity, over-communicating that clarity throughout the organisation, and reinforcing strategy through systems and ways of working. Clarity doesn't need to be complex and abstract, instead it can be achieved by...

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Monday, 11 May 2020

Book summary: Measure What Matters by John Doerr

By Sean Craig
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Monday, 11 May 2020
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11May

Objectives and key results (OKRs) provide a simple and collaborative goal-setting methodology that can be used by any organisation, team or individual. OKRs comprise of an objective - WHAT we're seeking to achieve, and one or more key results - HOW we're going to achieve the objective. OKRs have successfully helped many organisations, including - most famously - Google, prioritise what's most...

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Monday, 30 March 2020

The six questions that every high performing organisation needs to answer

By Sean Craig
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Monday, 30 March 2020
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30March

I hear and read about a lot of organisations and teams that wish to be ‘high performing’.  This is a great goal, but identifying this ambition is the easy bit.  The hard bit is working out how to translate the relatively abstract concept of high performance into concrete strategies for achieving it.  There may be lots of organisations talking about it, but there are relatively few...

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