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As we at last face the last few weeks of this extremely strange year it is important that you refuel with purpose and understand a bit more about what you might be feeling and thinking. Many of us feel that we shouldn’t be as tired as we are because we have been working from home, […]

Choose Courage This year has been somewhat surprising (she says… mastering the understatement!). What we can agree about though is that despite working from home & getting 2 hours back in our diaries daily… we have worked harder this year than ever before! What happened? Between home-schooling, ZOOMing & fighting down anxiety-attacks, some of us […]

In 2017 I was faced with a choice: Comfort or Courage. I had the choice to leave my safe and comfortable corporate life or fight to stay in a company that had other plans. I was asked the following question by my mentor, friend, uber-coach and ex-manager Lorraine Farah: What is the most courageous thing […]

One of the top challenges facing you right now is how to be responsive to the here and now AND look far enough down the line to make informed strategic decisions & recommendations. An area that you can’t afford to ignore, is building a leadership pipeline for tomorrow and equipping today’s managers to be successful. […]

Are you trying to get your team more effective and focused? Are you wanting to get the “mojo back” with your team at work despite all the changes? It is likely that the last few months have been a bit of a blur for you with the amount of change that, as individuals and companies, […]

Hug a small business today Everyone should make friends with an entrepreneur. Building a business is both terrifying and exhilarating. No experience can prepare you & the ride is like a roller-coaster with high highs and low lows. The resilience it takes to keep on going is unlike anything I have experienced before. The resilience […]

According to Wikipedia, “collaboration is the process of two or more people or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.” We are focused on this critical skill so that we can share […]

Feeling stressed changes how people weigh risks and rewards during the decision-making process. When under stress people focus more on the possible positive outcomes. Strangely. when under stress, the natural tendency is to pay greater attention to positive information, while discounting negative information, according to research published in Current Directions in Psychological Science. This means when […]

Many people are facing career decisions in these difficult times; either due to retrenchment or business challenges. Or you may be wondering if you should make a career change due to feeling stuck in your current role or situation. Before deciding to look for a career change or to pivot to a new industry, company, […]

Leadership is almost entirely made up of communication. Communication means what you say, what you don’t say, what you write, text, type, what your face says unconsciously, what your body shouts by accident! Communication is also the only way to resolve the issues that crop up and pull teams & relationships apart. A fractured relationship […]