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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...
Global Managing Director, Reed

Global Managing Director, Reed

I turned to Steph to help us with one of the senior leadership team’s within REED. We wanted to provide individuals with constructive feedback and a tailored development plan, whilst also improving how the team work together. Steph listened to our needs and proposed a...

Should we engage men more in women’s career development?

Should we engage men more in women’s career development?

Like many of us last Thursday I wanted to ‘do my bit’ to support International Women’s Day. I attended a networking event in the morning celebrating Women in Business, and spent the day talking about the #PressforProgress campaign. My social media on the day was full...

Balancing your career – how do you do it?

Balancing your career – how do you do it?

Here it is, the no.1 requested career blog topic from my working mum friends and also inspired by the quote below by Annabel Crabb that rings true for many of us: “The obligation for working mothers is a precise one: the feeling that one ought to work as if one didn’t...

5 Gold Things (For Your Career)

5 Gold Things (For Your Career)

Hoping to kick start your career plans in January? It’s the most wonderful time of the year but why not take a moment (amongst the madness) for yourself over the Christmas break to focus on you and your career? So to support you to get ready for achieving your goals...

It’s all about the ‘S’ word

It’s all about the ‘S’ word

Today I’ve been at a Christmas Afternoon Tea hosted by the ‘Socially Shared’ network group. With its warm and friendly vibe it struck me that this supportive group has become my new ‘team.’ Today certainly felt like a ‘team Christmas do’ with full on Christmas...

A shining example of leadership

A shining example of leadership

How many books, quotes, training courses are there on leadership these days? The answer is A LOT and it's a topic that continues to evolve with developing strong leaders being high on the organisational agenda. There are many 'leadership qualities' that are generally...

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