Why 2025 will be the year of the middle leader

Kim was bright, hardworking, collaborative and ambitious. She was a great corporate citizen. She was also exhausted. And excited.  Kim and her team had just finished two days together, spending time on exploring the new business strategy and creating their version of it for her function. She was delighted at how the team had...

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Towards better Leadership Development: Addressing Common Coaching Misconceptions

In this article we are going to tackle five popular misconceptions about leadership coaching so that you can make a more informed decision when you come to purchase coaching for yourself or leaders in your business. 1. Coaching is only for underperformers. Coaching has evolved since its introduction in the 1980s. Initially used for corrective measures, it...

It’s time for your new New Year’s resolutions

If, like most of us, you are “hopelessly average,” to quote Tom Bilyeu, all your good intentions around what you were going to achieve in 2023 have already turned to dust and you are back where you were in 2022. Or perhaps, even further back than that. Except, you are probably a bit more...

How to flourish in the twists and turns of 2023.

I read a lot of books in 2022. Some great works of fiction. Others were airport books. Others still, thought-provoking insights into philosophy, psychology and high performance. But, I have a long-standing trap that I set myself when it comes to reading books that are meant to help me improve an aspect of my...

How can you make organisational change an individualised experience?

Are you still sheep-dipping leaders and managers in the hope that some collective get-together, either in-person or virtually, will engage them sufficiently to deliver your organisational change effort? If you are: Stop. Now.  Think about the employee experience (EX) of such an ordeal: pouring stewed coffee from one of those tall silver flasks (assuming...

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