Jan 27, 2021The most important skill to learn for your leadership career — how to move from reacting to respondingLearning to move skilfully from react to respond is our life’s biggest learning journey. And it is at the heart of great leadership. It is all about moving from reacting to people and events, where we are swung around by the tail of things we can’t control, to responding to…Leadership8 min read
Oct 8, 2020Why Leadership Purpose is Important and how to find itThe impact of Covid-19 has made many of us stop and think about what is important to us, both professionally and personally. Are we heading in the direction we really want or following others’ life and career expectations? …Leadership5 min read
Jul 23, 2020How to Bring Your Humanity to Work to be a Better Leader in a Suffering WorldComing out of lockdown, we are undoubtedly facing an economic crisis. And business leaders and managers are rolling up their sleeves to take charge and make the decisions needed to survive the challenges and changes this pandemic has wrought on our businesses, and our people. But this is a social…Leadership4 min read
Jun 25, 2020Lockdown Lessons — How to Take This Opportunity to Rethink Working PracticesWith social distancing and travel restrictions here for the foreseeable future, working norms aren’t set to be the same again any time soon. That is, for those who can get much of their work done from home. And many are asking, do we want them to be? Lockdown has thrown…Lockdown7 min read
Apr 23, 2020Building and Demonstrating Resilience in a Time of CrisisThese are difficult times, with unprecedented changes to work and society norms. We are all figuring out how to ride the changes, respond to the challenges and keep our teams and companies going. …Resilience4 min read
Mar 19, 2020Getting comfortable with power — why we need to and why it’s a challengeYou’re not a leader if you have no power. Whether it’s the power to get things done, to make change or to engage others, power is at the heart of leadership, we build our authority through the skilful use of our power. And demonstrating that sense of authority is what…Womeninleadership5 min read
Jan 8, 2020Talk it Up: How to Reframe Your Negotiation Approach to Make it a Conversation Worth HavingDo you stress over asking for a salary rise or for a promotion or for a change in your working arrangements? Feel uncomfortable arguing your worth and wrong-footed in a negotiation process that seems to be working against you? Well, you’re in good company. Same game, different rules Women are…Negotiation5 min read
Nov 18, 2019How Building your Positivity Currency Makes you a Better LeaderAre you sick of joy-germ folk telling you to think positively when you are stressed and overloaded? They are right. It is not about ignoring or denying negative times and feelings. But knowing when your feelings are your friends or your foe. …Self Improvement5 min read
Nov 8, 2019A Paradox Mindset as an Accelerant for Women LeadersThis article was first published by HRD Connect. I believe it is precisely through the presence of opposites and the feelings they occasion that the great man — the bow with great tension — develops.” Fredrich Nietzsche Dealing with Duality A wealth of studies continue to highlight that female leaders…Leadership6 min read
Sep 26, 2019Actual talent or self-perceived talent?- know how to spot competence not just confidenceAs a woman business leader or an HR Director looking to promote and develop your best talent, are you backing confidence or competence when it comes to leadership roles? Can you really discriminate between actual talent or self-perceived talent? Or are you unconsciously trapped by ‘accepted’ leadership concepts and behaviours…Leadership5 min read
