Align Your Strengths to Your Business Life Stage
Discover how to align leadership strengths to your business life stage to unlock growth, resilience, and long-term organisational impact.
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Angela Duckworth’s Grit redefines success—highlighting passion, resilience, and purpose as key drivers of achievement and leadership impact.
Why the death of the three-stage life doesn’t have to mean the end of a fulfilling life!
As a leader, where do you see yourself in five years? How about ten years? What’s your career trajectory, and does retirement factor into your thinking?
As you ponder these questions, what’s at the forefront of your mind? Are you thinking about your passions and what you want to accomplish, or is it about your age and the “stage” of life and business you’re currently in?
Are you in the right mood for decision making?
For Christmas 2019, I was given a set of Sony WH-1000XM3 noise-cancelling headphones by my son, Ryan. He knew I loved listening to music, and that these would be great to take with me on an airplane when travelling for business. They truly are remarkable. I turn them on, and all I hear is music. I may as well be in an entirely different world.
Leading from the inside out: Why better people make better leaders
In his book Legacy: What the All Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life, James Kerr examines what makes the All Blacks one of the most successful teams in the history of sport. One of the core beliefs behind their high-performance culture is ‘better people make better leaders’. 1 Alongside values of character, responsibility, sacrifice and ritual, Kerr highlights their dedication to personal development as a defining feature of their success.
The short-term fix that can create a long-term problem
Stress and fatigue are understandable at certain times of the year – think of the mad rush in anticipation of the holidays, or the lead up to rolling out a major change initiative. But what if exhaustion is starting to creep in earlier than expected? What do you do when you find yourself looking at the calendar and quietly despairing that you’re expected to keep up this pace all year?
The subtle way your childhood affects how you lead
We all enter adulthood with thought processes and behaviours learned and adopted from childhood. This is true of every person, whether in a leadership role or not. Children learn and absorb lessons about life through overt teaching by people in their world – parents, grandparents, teachers, peers – and through more subtle ways by observing how others “do” life and interact with each other and the world.
What gets you out of bed in the morning?
The answer to this question can be quite revealing. Do you jump out of bed, ready and excited to work on the day’s projects? Or do you feel rising levels of stress and anxiety the moment you start thinking about your “to do” list? You may prefer to stay in bed pondering what life would be like if you were doing something else.
What to do when life moves the goalposts (again)
Studies show that more people are pursuing safety rather than taking risks as the pandemic continues to impact businesses and economies around the world.
A survey for consulting platform consultancy.uk showed that the pandemic’s impact will result in more people being risk-averse in future years, even after lockdowns ease. However, what appears to be the safest path has its own inherent risks.
Goal setting: Your roadmap to success
An idea you wake up with is unlikely to be achieved in a day. So how do you get to where you want to be?