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Resources, Articles, and blogs on career and leadership 

The Best CEOs Win on Habit, Not Capability

On paper, moving from MD to CEO looks like a natural progression. You’ve delivered results, you understand how to run a business, and you’ve built credibility. But in reality, it’s a very different job. Not just bigger, but different. Here are my reflections as a...

Turning Conflict Into Opportunity

Conflict is one of the most predictable,  and most poorly handled, leadership challenges in senior roles. The higher you progress, the more frequently you are required to navigate competing priorities, strong personalities, organisational politics and emotionally...

Making Coaching a Leadership Habit

Leaders love coaching when they learn it. They leave workshops energised, confident, equipped. But a month later? The pressure kicks in… time disappears… performance conversations can revert to directing and telling… and coaching becomes a nice-to-have, not a...
How to improve your cultural agility in the workplace

How to improve your cultural agility in the workplace

By Suzanna Tan,  Executive Coach - Helping leaders to strengthen their cultural agility.  Working virtually has become the norm, enabling us to be even more connected to a diverse network of people.  With worldwide colleagues, customers, suppliers and partners, a...

6 Ways Communication Needs to Change

6 Ways Communication Needs to Change

By Donna Weston- Executive Coach  How effective is your team communication in a hybrid world? As an executive coach working with organisations and individuals, what I hear from clients is that, overall, they are delighted with the opportunity to have the best of both...

5 ways that leaders can transform uncertainty into opportunity

5 ways that leaders can transform uncertainty into opportunity

Many of the leaders I’ve been coaching have talked about feeling an extra layer of anxiety in themselves and in their teams due to such turbulent times both externally and internally within their organisation. In order to thrive in a constantly changing environment we...

The secret to a successful career

The secret to a successful career

By Donna Weston - Career Coach Many of my clients are going through the process of assessing what is really important to them in life right now, triggered by the start of a new year and their experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. They talk about each of the nationwide...

Building your network

Building your network

See my video below on building a valuable network to help your career development. See      

Giving, receiving and asking for feedback

Giving, receiving and asking for feedback

How do you effectively give, receive and ask for feedback ? Respond rather than react We are human and when someone gives us critical feedback it may trigger our fight, flight fright  response. We’ve all made the mistake of angrily tapping away a ‘reaction’ to an...

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