I’m overwhelmed, but I can’t tell anyone! Ever have days when you feel overwhelmed. You know you have missed a project deadline, or you haven’t quite figured out the solution to a critical problem. Perhaps, worse you need to address some unhealthy team dynamics and don’t quite know how. We all have days when we feel overwhelmed. However, many leaders … Read More
Can building a Personal Brand benefit Leaders?
I did my first FB Live post last week. Nerve wracking. Today Personal Brand is key but what is it and what are the benefits for Leaders?
Harnessing uniqueness for High Performance
Does comparing result in high performance? I was talking with a friend and she mentioned how common it is in our culture to expect ‘comparison’ to result in high performance. We see this everywhere – home, work and especially schools. We compare our children to one another and to some standard academic measurement which often has no context or greater … Read More
Purposed for Leadership – Are you called?
People become leaders for different reasons, promotion, pay and many others. This article explores the idea that great leaders are those who see leadership as their purpose, a calling if you will. Can leadership really be someone’s purpose? We recognise when we see a child who has a sporting capability that ‘they’re a natural’. The child matures into the best football … Read More
Words of wisdom
One of the things I have recognised is that: effective leaders are always learning. So here’s some wisdom Written by columnist Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio. “To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in … Read More
My authentic self – static or evolving
I was having a conversation with my nephew’s friends on Facebook which started out with ‘why people are pretenders’. I joined in the dialogue about when we live into our authentic self we don’t feel the need for the false self, the pretense and it’s freeing. One guy made a great comment that we all evolve so being authentic is … Read More