The Village Fisherman, The Icebreaker, or The Amplifier: Which Type of Leader Are You?
Quick question: Which type of leader are you?
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Building Trust
Without trust, every process takes twice as long and delivers half the result. These articles give you practical trust-building frameworks.
Leadership Reset: Stop Drowning and Start Swimming
The most powerful leadership skill isn't working harder. It's knowing when and how to hit the reset button.
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Leadership Energy: The Invisible Force That Shapes Your Team's Performance
Your leadership impact isn't just about what you say or do. It's about the energy you bring into every room, every meeting, every decision.
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It’s Time to Burn Your Management Playbook. Here’s What to Replace It With.
My most valuable leadership lesson wasn't learned in a classroom. It was learned with the bite of an enormous backpack digging into my shoul
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Why Leadership Development Fails: The Belief-Behaviour Gap That Nobody Talks About
Most leadership programmes teach the wrong thing entirely
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When Leaders Optimize for Headlines, Not Results
Walk into any leadership team meeting and you'll witness it: leaders who've mastered the art of looking busy while accomplishing little.
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You'll Never Become the Leader You Admire Until You Do This
We've all met them. The leader who has read every leadership book on the shelf.
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Stop Overcomplicating Leadership (It's Simpler Than HR Wants You to Think)
Picture your last leadership training session. Competency frameworks stacked like ancient scrolls. Behavioural matrices are more complex tha
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Your Meeting About the Meeting is Killing Your Culture (And Your Time)
Let's talk about your calendar this week.
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Achieving your intent and overcoming your doubts
As a freelancer, you can face many doubts which can often get in the way of succeeding. Doubts in your head and those held by others.
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Employee experience is dependent on your leadership skills
The conversation that I have found myself experiencing multiple times this last week is how COVID has impacted the Employee Experience.
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Let's talk about burnout. And 5 things you can do about it.
I moved back to NZ on Christmas Eve 2019 and hit the ground running.
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Build psychological safety for your team in 5 steps
I was thrilled to receive so many requests for the SERVICE model I shared last week.
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R- How reliability builds trust
The easiest way to think about reliability in terms of building trust is to imagine your leadership like a vehicle that takes you from A to
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How do you deal with the employee who always brings you problems?
As a leader, much of our time can be taken up by members of the team who encounter a problem and come to us to fix it for them.
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How communication ABC leads to performance 123
Great communicators repeatedly outperform good and bad communicators by a factor of up to 7x.
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Why high performing leaders break the ice
I was on a call recently with a group of leadership thinkers; talking about the actively futurist leader.
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Three leadership insights about high performance
The road to high performance is paved with the golden bricks of experience and learning lessons.
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Leadership Team conversations that change the game
Picture the scenario. I’m running a “Ways of Working” session with the leadership team of a large Asian electronics company
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What is "Ways of Working" (WoW) and why does it work?
When my team and I were putting together the Ways of Working (WoW) program we wanted to create something really impactful, cost-effective an
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Create a hybrid work plan which engages your employees
During a recent Hybrid Ways of Working session, someone mentioned a colleague in the leadership team of another business
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The 4-step 1:1 format transforms things for you and your team
When I talk to leaders at the start of Ways of Working Sponsor Sessions, I often ask how they conduct their 1:1s and how they support their
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The workshop that left me speechless
There we were in a workshop, talking about how to hand over tasks effectively, to free up energy and time to focus on more important things.
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Why tough conversations don’t go to plan
In the Ways of Working program, one of the modules we talk about is Tough Conversations.
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Avoid this common leadership development mistake
As we move to an age of digitized learning, it has become apparent that a lot of companies are going to focus on providers who offer app-bas
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Beat burnout by being more abundant
Firstly, thank you to those of you who reached out after reading last week’s rant alert post – it seemed to strike a chord and I’m really ha
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How I found my Purpose
Have you ever stopped to think about the concept of doing something "on purpose"? Many of us might associate this phrase with simply being i
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A Journey of Purpose-Driven Success
Indulging in the pleasure of chocolate without the guilt is a dream turned into reality by Glenn Gardone, the visionary behind the delicious
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Burnout: A Sign of Weakness?
In the fast-paced world of high-performance, burnout often emerges as an unwelcome guest. It's a common misconception that burnout equates t
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The Art of Unexpected Gratitude
Picture this: You're leading a team, navigating challenges, and striving for success. How can you become a better leader and inspire your te
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Navigating Leadership in Times of Crisis vs. VUCA Environments
In the ever-evolving landscape of business and leadership, one term that's become increasingly prevalent is VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty,
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Navigating Leadership in Times of Crisis vs. VUCA Environments
In the ever-evolving landscape of business and leadership, one term that's become increasingly prevalent is VUCA – Volatility, Uncertainty,
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How to stop drowning in your Task List and Become a High-Impact Leader
Do you ever feel yourself buried under an avalanche of tasks? Your to-do list shocks you with its ever-growing length.
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The Million-Dollar Leadership Myth 🎯
'We need all the information before we can decide.'
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