Leader Snacks
Setting up for Success – Morning Intentions
How can you better set yourself up for success? Starting with this simple and effective 10 min morning process that could make a huge difference to your effectiveness each day.
Mark Powell
Leader Snacks
Leader Snacks
The Challenges & Opportunities in Asia Pacific
We regularly reach out to our client base to get their views on a number of important issues affecting their leadership. Recently we spoke to Asia Pac leaders about some of the “regional” challenges they face leading across Asia. Performance happens in “context” and we believe the themes below are of significant importance when advising…
Performance & Vitality
5 Initiatives for Accelerated Business Performance
We regularly reach out to our client base to get their views on a number of important issues impacting leadership performance across Asia. Recently we talked to Asia Pac leaders about some of the “regional” initiatives that they are pursuing to unlock greater sustainable performance in their business. The following emerged as key priorities: Strategic…
Change & Agility
Six Minutes or Six Breaths
Six Minutes to overcome your emotional reaction Many of us know what it is like to be triggered. By triggered I am referring to moments when an event or action or situation ignites our own subconscious perception of danger or risk or breaches our tightly held values. The trigger event sets off the instinctive and…
Leader Snacks
3 Simple Performance Ideas For Senior Leaders & Their Businesses
Research & Findings: Recently, we asked 30 leaders in the Asia Pacific what was most important in generating performance through leading a regional/ international business that spanned both geographical and cultural boundaries. These were leaders from various international organizations, all within the Asia Pacific region. They include both commercial and functional leaders. Here are some…
Team & Interdependency
Motivating Your Senior Team
If you are leading a senior team, a critical part of your role is facilitating the high performance of key individuals and the collective. This means tapping into key motivations. It is well documented, that intrinsic motivation is both more meaningful and more sustainable for senior executives. They still enjoy extrinsic rewards, and will happily…
Change & Agility
Transformation Success Recipe
Nothing could be more important than clean water. Sanitation probably comes a close 2nd. To impact water and sanitation at scale across the developing world would be a true transformation. Transformation is one of those popular terms now that is applied to any change initiative that happens. However, the word “transformation” carries more power than…
Praesta Insights
The Resilient Team
Introduction At Praesta we focus on helping organisations to achieve sustainable change. Ideally, that means a partnership approach, including work with leadership teams. The concerted senior team effort has the potential to influence motivation, performance and culture for the longer term, whilst the impact of individual leaders risks fading with their departure. In this Insight…