The conscious leadership advantage of being able to receive and work with tough feedback. #BrainBasedCoaching

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.