What your business is experiencing is normal… mostly.
Like relationships, no one really goes into business expecting it to fail. Yet, more than half of all businesses don’t survive beyond five years1. As a business owner you want to
Inside the mind of an executive coach: Can you trust the process?
To succeed in attracting, managing, and retaining high-impact talent, research shows that coaching is the number one process businesses should focus on1. With retention and engagem
Are you a business staff are proud to work for?
It’s often only in hindsight that leaders recognize their organizational culture was a major contributing factor to serious failures. This was the case when international pharmac
What is leadership capacity and how do I get more of it?
In a study of CEO’s leading multibillion dollar companies, Harvard Business Review1 sought clarity on how CEO’s use their time and how to maximise it. They concluded that the j
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 initiativ
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?
Learn the art of asking strategic questions, not convenient ones
You won’t agree with everything that Levitt and Dubner present in Freakonomics (2009), but it will make you wonder if you are asking the right questions. Levitt and Dubner ap
Making ‘reflection’ a core leadership practice
Returning from a global leadership intensive with participants from Africa, Asia and the U.S, I couldn’t help but notice how challenging it can be to invest adequate time reflect
Forward thinking business partnerships
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be” (Paul Valery, 1871-1945). Much could be said about our changing world—economic volatility, polit
Does leadership coaching improve organizational performance?
The economic downturn of 2009 led to unprecedented challenges in global competition that created high levels of anxiety and uncertainty. This significantly affected stakeholder exp