Unlocking Leadership Effectiveness

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Setting career goals is common, even straightforward:

✅ I want a pay rise.
✅ I want a promotion.
✅ I want a new job.

These goals are important—they bring clarity and a plan. Many of us climb the career ladder step by step, working toward the next level.

But what happens when you...

Stay at the top of your game with this tip. 
 
Experience is your ticket to play—it gets you in the room, but it no longer defines success at a leadership level. Knowledge may start the conversation, but how leaders execute is what sets them apart. 

Leadership effectiveness is about shifting gears to t...

Hands up 🙋‍♀️—who wouldn’t love a lighter workload? 

Leadership effectiveness isn’t just about crossing items off your to-do list; it’s about focusing on tasks that truly move the needle. The ones that create real business impact versus those that just bring the satisfaction of “getting things done.”...

Leadership isn’t just about having a bold vision—it’s about translating that vision into tangible business impact. 

During a recent coaching conversation, an executive leader was energised by the future possibilities of transforming their organisation. But that excitement quickly turned into overwhel...

One of the biggest leadership challenges I’ve seen isn’t just about making decisions—it’s about clarifying how decisions should be made. 

Too often, leaders get pulled into every decision, slowing down momentum and preventing teams from moving forward with confidence. On the other hand, some decision...

As leaders, we often feel the urge to "do it all," navigating various competing priorities within complex organisational landscapes. However, as we approach the end of 2024, it's evident that trying to manage everything isn't sustainable. 

So, where should you focus your efforts to ensure your init...

Modern leadership is often lived on autopilot and blurs our sense of self. 

These questions can trigger an insightful and essential journey of self-discovery. 
 
💡 Who are you? 
💡 What do you stand for? 
💡 How do you prioritise what's most important? 
 
Impactful and fulfilling leadership requires clarity ...

Secret insights to leadership transformation that accelerate your business impact 

Lately, I’ve been deeply involved in coaching globally dispersed leadership teams to enhance their effectiveness by identifying new ways of collaborating. 

One thing I’ve learned through this work is that transformation...

The answer might surprise you. 
 
The leaders I work with consistently tell me their biggest challenge is not prioritising their health. The drive to achieve, get ‘stuff’ done and be available means they run out of time for what is at the core of it all. 
 
We all know that our health impacts our physic...

Our natural tendency is to go into action and problem solving too quickly and that becomes the blocker of impactful executive coaching.

A natural response is ‘what can I say about this problem to add value, what have I experienced that helps solve this problem’ What happens in this context, by shar...

I recently watched a fascinating TED talk by Atul Gawande a surgeon who wanted to push the boundaries of coaching to see if he could improve his complication rates. He had looked at other areas of highly skilled professionals from the world of sport and music and noted the impact a good coach could ...

‘I’m coaching myself through this’

‘I’ve got a lot of experience and I’ve completed a coaching course.’

As an executive coach I hear these sorts of phrases all the time, but can you coach yourself? I’m not diluting the importance of completing courses, as leaders we need to be able to have effecti...

In the first of six forthcoming leadership lessons, I’ll be sharing a weekly tip on how you can reset, reboot and rejuvenate your brain for the week ahead.

In this week’s clip we are looking at how to approach leadership effectiveness through the lens of kindness and love and the impact that can ha...

In this week’s Leadership Lesson, we are looking at the science that talks about the impact of exercise on the brain and how we can maximise our leadership effectiveness.

Exercise

We all know how important exercise is to our physical strength, but what would you say to the science that says withou...

This week’s leadership lesson focuses on the importance of NOURISHMENT

To nourish is described as providing your body with what is necessary for life, growth and good health.

The number 1 factor is to eat well – we all know how important this is. The executive leaders I work with often find this h...

Jim Rohn (the self-made millionaire, mentor to leaders and author of many best-selling power of self-discipline books) is thought to have said that

‘YOU are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.’

When I combine this statement to one of my favourite behavioural science quotes...

When people feel stuck in their career, or in life in general, one reason I observe with the leaders I coach is they aren’t doing enough to satisfy that part of their brain that needs growth. As human beings we need to feel as if we are evolving in some way and for many leaders this means learning s...

The importance of sleep isn’t new but if rebooting your brain and boosting your performance is important to you – it starts with you and it starts with sleep.

Sleep reboots your leadership brain to ensure when you are on, YOU are at your best inside and out. YOU should be obsessed with sleep. Get t...

Identifying senior leaders has changed. The traditional corporate pedigree that used to open the door to the c-suite is no longer a major determinant for securing top jobs.

The capabilities required of our new breed of leader means often the ‘softer’ and less easily recognised skills are now toppin...

Sometimes when life turns things upside down for you in your career it can actually be a golden opportunity, if you choose to lead the way.

“The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that ...