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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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tell Me Something I Don’t Want To Hear
The conscious leadership advantage of being able to receive and work with tough feedback. #BrainBasedCoaching
The Difference Between Your Rut and Your Grave is Just a Few Feet
"The difference between a rut and a grave is just a few feet!" This is a saying of a favourite coach of mine, Steve Chandler. And it's been with me for the longest time, really helping me over the years to notice any time I've slipped into something of a rut - and the absolute importance of yanking myself out of it, at the very soonest opportunity!
Disorganisation = Self-Sabotage!
Organisation is one of my core values. And I'll just say it: I like my sh!t to be organised.
Don’t BE your thoughts
A useful question to ask oneself is: "How spacious a relationship do I have with my own thoughts?" It's not a question many people would comprehend, let alone (think to!) ask. Because the first thought is: there is NO SEPARATION between me and my thoughts. And that's exactly the point.
What you judge in another you strengthen in yourself
One of the many truths that have played out to me over the client-coaching years is that what we judge in another person, we deepen and strengthen in ourselves.