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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.
Beyond the Crucible meets When Leaders Are Lost.
I recently had the immense privilege and pleasure of being interviewed by Warwick Fairfax and Gary Schneeberger on the Beyond the Crucible Podcast. Hailing from the Fairfax Media Dynasty, Warwick’s name is synonymous with status, wealth, influence, and the very public demise of the family company in 1987.
The Alignment Advantage: How to Multiply Leadership Impact Without Burning Out
Learn how alignment transforms strategy into results, boosts leadership capacity, and drives sustainable impact without exhausting your team.
When Leaders Are Lost
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Read our latest article and explore our resources for actionable strategies, thought-provoking book reviews, and the latest leadership trends. Rooted in evidence and real-world application, these insights are designed to support and inspire leaders at every level.
Has the time come to revisit the way you set and pursue your goals?
How often do you set a goal for yourself, only to find that progress seems to be slow or non-existent, despite your best efforts? Or perhaps you aren’t clear on exactly what success looks like or how to measure it. Should this be where you’re finding yourself?
Relevance
There are hundreds of books on leadership, and every once in a while a book comes along that provides a perspective different to the status quo. Relevance: Matter More is one such book.
Styrlund, Hayes and Deegan argue that in a competitive global market glutted with information and products, there is something that matters more when trying to achieve a position that is unique and distinctive: relevance.
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.
Lessons from the Top
A leader’s journey is so much more than a collection of experiences or a series of events. It is part of a much larger story or narrative.
Presented the right way, a leader’s story not only has the potential to inspire others; it has the ability to provide meaning and context to the present and the future.
The power of momentum. How a coach can help you sustain it.
Are you needing to make a change in your business but don’t know how to get started? Rather than being excited about the opportunities you can see, are you finding yourself unsure of what initial steps to take, leading you to not take any action at all? Maybe you are quietly confident about what is in front of you, but would value having a trusted coach who can act as a sounding-board for you and ask questions that you might overlook.
Coaching leaders is about more than just enhancing their performance
Coaching is not as much a tool or process that supports leaders in making lasting changes in their lives, but an evolutionary journey that helps them to identify and clarify what is important to them, set goals, overcome obstacles, understand how to lead and mobilize others, and create action plans that keep them focused on implementing what needs to happen.
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
From a young age we have it drilled into us that if we work hard we’ll achieve success, and we’ll be happy or fulfilled. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with working hard; in fact, there is a strong link between achievement and effort. However, as declared by Achor, empirical evidence reveals that happiness and optimism significantly fuel performance and achievement, not the other way around.
Validating the value of coaching
Coaching is seen by some as a luxury, an added expense that offers little in the way of tangible results, and there are still some who question the value coaching adds to a business’s bottom line. However, the very nature of human development requires resources such as relationships, networks and alliances to grow and flourish.
The Alliance – Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Leaders can’t afford not to be in the ‘talent’ business.
Most leaders would agree that managing talent is an enormous challenge. Putting aside the costs associated with the recruitment and development of staff, holding onto someone that you can’t afford to lose is a battle easily lost.
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 grow your business into one that’s thriving and profitable, often investing an immeasurable amount of time, money, sweat and tears to make this a reality. So why is it that some businesses continue to grow while others stagnate and eventually die?
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 engagement being top of mind for business leaders2, and with a growing need of and demand for coaching by employees3, how can you be confident that as an executive coach, you will be successful in your engagement and deliver value to your clients that meets or exceeds their expectations?
GROW – How ideals power growth and profit at the world’s 50 great companies
GROW: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies is a must read for all leaders, particularly if you are trying to identify what is going to differentiate you from a magnitude of companies—especially those in the same business as you.
Not based on ‘feel-good’ anecdotes and clichés, but on almost ten years of empirical research, Stengel analyzes the ‘brand ideals’ of the world’s best businesses, and how those ideals contributed to exponential growth, performance, and profit.
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 pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk risked violating US FDA regulations in the early 2010’s. Such was the seriousness of the case, its insulin was almost banned from the country1.
Two things natural leaders do differently
For some leaders there is a natural flow to relationship building that has little to do with their technical skill or level of charisma. It is demonstrated in the way they carry themselves, how they relate to others and their ability to speak their mind with both confidence and humility.
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.
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