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Virtual Meeting Madness
Do you feel exhausted just looking at your daily calendar packed with Zoom or Teams Meetings? Does it feel like…
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Critical Thinking for better Decision Making
Are you quick to make decisions by weighing up the pros and cons and get on with it? Or are…
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The trap of the Unconscious Bias
We all have biases. If we like it or not. Some of them are unconscious or implicit. You know, when…
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Switch off to switch on – focus without distraction
‘How are you?’ – ‘I’m good. So busy.’ This is the start of pretty much every conversation I have. But…
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Leading with Vulnerability
What comes to your mind when you hear ‘vulnerability’? Being exposed to the possibility of being harmed or attacked? Feeling…
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Mobilise your teams to Lead the Future
‘A computer on every desk in every home’ was Microsoft’s early mission. It was bold, ambitious and life changing. Microsoft…
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Conquering Fear as a Leader
Did you know that 30% of Fortune 500 leaders last less than three years, because they are not good at…
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Courage – heroic impulsiveness or calculated risk?
What comes to your mind when you hear the word COURAGE? A cartoon version of Super(wo)man saving the world? Someone…
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The Agile Mindset
Do you hear people say ‘we are working agile’ or ‘we are applying agile at our organisation’. I certainly do…
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Psychological Safety for High Performance Teams
Have you ever worked in an environment where you or others held back from speaking up? Held back from sharing…
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Productive Conflict – help your team grow by engaging in conflict
Are you working in a team where everyone gets along but you feel that real issues are being avoided? Or…
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Adaptability – a core leadership skill in the workplace
If 2020 has taught us one thing then it’s the fact that change is the only constant. I am having…
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Planning for a New Year with a Growth Mindset
We are two weeks into the New Year, and I can feel a positive buzz around me. I have been…
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New Year, New Start – how to set goals effectively
It’s a wonderful time of the year to reset, look ahead and set goals for the New Year. But all…
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Reset 2021 – What have we learned from 2020 for a successful New Year
‘I just want 2020 to be over, have a break and start fresh into 2021’. Can you relate? It’s a…
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The Hybrid Rule of Thumb – leading teams in the New Normal
In the shift out of lockdowns and easing of restrictions, everyone is talking about the New Normal, hybrid workplaces and…
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Workplace Evolution – how Millennials and GenZ impact the Future of Work
A seismic shift is underway in today’s multi-generational workforce, as younger employees take on leadership positions, challenge traditional organisational structures…
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Wellbeing at work – how to look after our people in a hybrid world
‘How can we look after our peoples’ wellbeing at work?’ is a question I get asked by leaders often these…
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Lead the Future – Leadership Skills for the Workplace of the 21st Century
We are moving into a new world at light speed. Automation, disruption and our new reality of a VUCA world…
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The Future is Hybrid – A refocus on employee engagement
What a year last week has been…do your weeks feel like this? A whole year crammed into one week, you…
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Building Trust through Self-Disclosure and Feedback
Leading people comes down to two things: Relationships and Conversations. Even when we look at cohesive teams, it is clear…
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Playing to your Strengths for Exponential Growth
Why is it that we almost always focus on our weaknesses first and often ignore our strengths? Why is that…
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The Accountability Game – How to set expectations and ask for accountability
‘I don’t understand why she hasn’t delivered what was expected’ or ‘They know what I usually expect so no need…
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The tech-savvy leader – a necessary leadership skill in a hybrid world
The current global shift into hybrid workplaces has had a substantial effect on organisations to pick up their pace for…
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‘Out of the Office but not out of Work’ – Leading Teams in a hybrid world
Fostering an inclusive team culture where people feel motivated, stay focussed and work with integrity is hard enough for leaders…
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Facilitating Team Meetings in a Virtual World – How to keep your remote teams focussed and motivated
6 months into a hybrid world where most of us work from home and I still see many leaders struggling…
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Influence through Storytelling
‘I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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Lead-self, lead-others – The importance of your leadership journey
There is a general misperception that leadership is always something that is done to other people. In this blog, I…
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Do you have a Tribe? The Importance of your Support Team
Do you find the term Tribe is overused? I don’t disagree, it’s been thrown around on Social Media a lot…
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Networking in a hybrid world
Networking can be challenging for people, even in normal times. But now that we are working remotely and in person…
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Leading Change in times of Crisis
One aspect of leadership during the Corona crisis is constant: change. As leaders we don’t only need to manage change,…
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Post COVID Leadership Skills
The last few months have put a huge amount of pressure on leaders. Every part of our lives has been…
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Emotional Intelligence – Your Superpower in times of crisis
Leaders had to adapt and improve their leadership skills during the COVID-crisis quickly. The only constant we are facing is…
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Leadership Brand – What kind of leader do you want to be known for after the crisis?
Leaders all over the world have been challenged to step up like never before. I have always said that true…
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Resilient Leadership
Resilience seems to be another buzz word these days. Everybody is talking about the need of building resilience to be…
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Courageous Leadership
There is no doubt 2020 has thrown huge challenges at leaders and humans. In Australia it started with the most…
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Authentic Power
In times of crisis it is more important than ever before to show up with authenticity. People look to their…
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Give feedback or coach?
There is no doubt, the conversations we have with our team members are front and centre of our leadership. As…
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The Workplace of the 21st Century – Purpose-driven Cultures
We are experiencing a massive generational shift in our organisation’s leadership in the next 10 years. Boomers are on the…
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Are tough conversations tough?
If you ask leaders if tough conversations are tough, the answer would be mostly yes. Intrinsically human beings want to…
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Creating a Feedback Culture
For me, leadership in organisations comes down to 2 things: Relationships and Conversations When leaders do both well, build trusting…
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Virtual Presenting – What’s different?
Virtual is here to stay For the last few weeks most of our communication has been through screens with little…
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Succinct communication requires Structure and Thought
If you want to get your point across, you need to get to that point. I observe leaders time and…
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The power of diversity in teams and organisations
What should diversity in teams and organisations look like when it comes to leadership? There are dozens of right answers,…
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Knowing me and knowing you – Influencing by ‘leaning in’
If we want people to make a buying decision or our board or teams to buy into an idea or…
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Leading multi-generations
Read this mobile phone threat out loud: Jenny: ‘BAE. My new work gig is LIT. the crew is totally woke…
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Personal Brand – Fad or Future?
In this article you will get some powerful tips on how to build your personal band. Personal Brand seems to…
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Business with Chopsticks
In this blog we will demystify Cross-Cultural Intelligence explore why leading people across borders requires more than learning how to…
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How to Effectively Lead People Across Borders
Annemarie Cross, The PodCast Queen from Ambitious Entrepreneur, invited our founder Jessica to discuss cross-cultural intelligence. Read more
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