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2022

  • Tell Me Something I Don’t Want To Hear
    The conscious leadership advantage of being able to receive and work with tough feedback. #BrainBasedCoaching
  • Why You Need To Recalibrate Your Career Success Habits
    What early-stage career habits do you need to revisit and reset because they're no longer serving? Left unchecked, these patterns can have significant impact on both career and wellbeing. Do yourself and your career a favour and build this alternative success habit: the awareness and responsibility to notice - and re-condition - those self-conditioned patterns that are now showing-up for you in unhelpful ways.
  • The Source to Becoming a More Resilient Leader
    Resilience is an essential leadership quality, underpinning so much of the work that stands you out as a leader. To develop your leadership resilience, sidestep the mistake that most people make: failing to see the quality of resilience as, at once, thought, feeling and behaviour: to be worked on in combination. In this article, a few ideas to help you access the deeper wells of your natural resilience.
  • A Brain-based Approach to Charismatic Leadership
    What captures the essence of your charisma? The "experience of you"? Charisma is one of those qualities of being that is, at once, founded in you, but manifest in others. Something that's completely personal, yet universally understood. It is also something that can be learnt and intentionally developed. Here's a 5-part brain-based model for your most charismatic self.
  • 9 Career-Building Habits to Break Out of a Career Rut
    When your career trajectory runs flat, you need effective strategies to break out of your career rut and get back to successful career-building habits. Here are 9 career management mistakes that could be holding you back from your full career potential.
  • The 6 Daily Practices of High Performing Leaders
    What are your difference-making practices - both the hygiene factors and the "secret sauce" - that help you excel as a leader? There are a core set of fundamentals that all leaders practice. But those are mostly technical and tactical. And the type of success high performers are interested in is consistent, sustainable and career-long. Here are 6 game-changing daily practices you can implement quickly and easily to perfectly complement your already-established core fundamentals.
  • Career “Satisfaction” is Selling Yourself Short
    When it comes to your career, is “Satisfaction” really good enough? We have positive and reassuring associations with that word, for sure. But … satisfaction is just satisfaction. It’s nothing to get fired-up about. It's "as expected". Good enough for your career? I don't think so either. Here are 6 ideas to set you on the path to career astonishment!
  • 9 Essential Ingredients for Greater Career Fulfilment
    After basic career hygiene factors, what adds-up to career fulfilment? And how do you currently rate? Because we can go weeks, and sometimes months and years, refusing to notice how dissatisfied and unfulfilled we are in our work. Here are 9 essential ingredients for you to consider, today.
  • 4 Toxic Character Traps High Performing Leaders Know to Avoid
    Top performing leaders are conscious self-leaders. They exercise self-awareness and take personal responsibility in ways that deepen their leadership impact, not least by continually checking-in on some of the toxic character traps we can all fall into, from time to time.
  • The Consistent Practices of Sustainable High Performance Leadership
    High Performance Leaders aren't born; they're made. How? By committing to small but impactful practices, consistently and over time. And then fuelling those practices with some golden leadership rules. Here's how to make you yourself a High Performance Leader.
  • Masterful Leadership Communication During Crisis and Challenge
    At times of challenge and uncertainty, a leader with a calm, clear and wholly-open communication style is worth everything to the organisation. If you had to choose, what would be your list of 5 non-negotiables … to master the key leadership competency of clear and open communication at times of challenge?
  • What The Neuroscience Says About Our Approach To Change Leadership
    All recognised change management practices are logical. But the brain isn't - it's emotional! Set your change leadership apart by taking a fundamentally brain-focused approach to leading and managing organisational change.
  • The Fundamental Cornerstones of Self-Mastery
    Most overlook and undervalue the fundamentals as an inconsistent contradiction to their current level of expertise and performance. But the fundamentals are THE cornerstones to self-mastery. Make the differentiating mindset shift to take complete command of the 3 domains of self-mastery excellence.
  • The Neuroscience for Optimising Decision-making Under Pressure
    Decision-making is a critical, role-defining skill for every leader. But decisions are complex cognitive operations, often stressed to breaking point at times of challenge, crisis and uncertainty. Optimise your decision-making capability with these insights from the neuroscience of leadership.
  • 6 Ways to Handle Tough Feedback…Like a Pro
    Feedback is gold: if we can hear it. But it takes skill, practice and temperance to receive feedback - especially tough, leadership feedback - without embellishing it with unhelpful meanings of our own, to the point it becomes a blocker, not an accelerator. As a leader, I never want to stop asking for tough feedback. I want to get masterful at receiving it, using it … and then asking for more. In short: "Turning Pro". Here's how.
  • A Brain-based Approach for Game-changing Leadership Through Challenging Times
    In times of change, challenge, uncertainty and crisis, the human brain is not wired to make best use of its extensive capabilities - in fact, the opposite. Leaders and managers need to know how to stay resourceful if they're to change the game at the critical junctures.
  • 6 Science-backed Strategies for Maintaining Focus, Productivity & Effectiveness
    Ever-present stressors in the workplace push our emotional buttons and exhaust our cognitive abilities. With our brain's awareness and threat levels on constant alert, our capacities are significantly impaired - and it's an accumulative impact, over time. Dial-in these science-backed habits and strategies to stay focused and effective
  • From Functional To Vital: How To Make A Stellar Contribution To The Team
    For those that would be an outstanding member of and for their team, there's not nearly as much literature on the topic as there is helping team leaders be outstanding in their role. So, if you've been thinking there’s more you could be doing to play your part and make a stellar contribution, here are six strategies to take you from functional team member to VITAL team player.
  • Leadership Excellence: Open and Honest Communication in the Face of Challenge
    The function of all leadership is to lean into challenge and uncertainty. At those times, a leader with a demonstrably calm, competent and open communication style significantly increases the team's likelihood of success. A key leadership competency to master; here's how …
  • 6 Science-led Strategies for Managing Bias at Work
    Our biases are shortcuts that most-often serve us well, showing-up as intuition, instinct and powerful decision-making. But bias also has its shortcomings - oftentimes with far-reaching consequence. Pay attention to what the neuro-behavioural science has to say about managing and navigating unconscious bias in the workplace.
  • 5 Bold Strategies to Revolutionise Your Time Management Discipline
    Time Management may look, feel and play like an external problem; but in truth, it's an internal struggle that resolves to a very simple question of boldness. Time management systems are surface-level tactics that do little or nothing to address the internal challenge. Make a shift at your core with these 5 bold strategies.
  • 8 Habits to Enhance the Quality & Rigour of Your Strategic Thinking Process
    The 3 key characteristics of successful strategy are focus, alignment and agility. The primary guarantor of these crucial ingredients is the quality and rigour you bring to your strategic thinking process. Here are 8 fundamental disciplines that will ensure that quality, from envisioning to execution.
  • How Your Relationship to Personal Power is Stifling Your Career Potential
    Power is probably not what you think it is. You're probably not aware of the stage of power you're currently at. And you're probably not paying enough attention to how your relationship to personal power is limiting your potential, professionally. You’re already succeeding in many areas of your career. Now step-up again by re-evaluating your relationship with … and exercising all your many sources of … personal power.