Coaching and Leadership Development Articles

On Empowerment: Trust and they will deliver!

Empowerment is a word I hear leaders use often. It sounds grand and has good intentions, enabling team members to make decisions, take ownership of areas and grow in their role. Great leaders do this easily, it’s part of their DNA. But so many more don’t. They think that it means something else, often due to never having an effective role model who has empowered them.

How you show up is how you lead

I talk about how we show up as leaders daily as an executive coach and leadership facilitator. Leaders often have great definitions of how they want to be as a leader; read your last CV for an example. We do forget though that how people experience us, says more about who we are and what we stand for, than anything else.

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Stakeholder Relationships: How good are yours?

As you’re reading this, we’ll be a month into a new government with a new prime minister. Many of us have been in a similar position in the past. Not as prime minister, but as the leader who has been working long and hard towards a new role. And then it happens – we get the job! Now we have to show we can do it.

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Are you being useful or helpful?

A good friend of mine asked me a question a little while ago. He asked: “Is the world making good use of you?” And this really made me think. Was it?

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