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10 Powerful End-of-the-Year Reflection Questions for Leaders

Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” For leaders, the unexamined year becomes a missed opportunity for intentional growth. 2025 has ta ... Read More Dec 15, 2025

Build Emotional Intelligence

How Emotional Intelligence Builds Executive Presence and Leadership Influence

Leadership is not about being in charge. It's about taking care of those in your charge. -Simon Sinek In today's complex, fast-paced business world, technical expertise and strategic know-how ... Read More Jul 01, 2025

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5 Ways to Communicate Effectively in a Conflict Situation

Let's face it - Conflict is an inevitable part of life, whether in personal relationships, the workplace, or social settings. Conflict arises when your ideas, needs and beliefs differ from another person’s and there seems n ... Read More Feb 04, 2025

Building Relationship

How to Practice Building Positive Relationships in The Workplace

Positive workplace relationships are vital to professional success and personal satisfaction; investing in them will pay dividends throughout your career. As a leader and a professional, If you desire to create long-term fulfilli ... Read More Sep 30, 2024

Are You Intent on Greater Team Motivation? Discover One Simple Way

An executive's initial work experience was marred by a lack of clarity about his tasks. He said, I would have been more driven if I knew exactly what was expected of me. This sentiment underscores the significant impact unclear e ... Read More Jul 12, 2024

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Eager to Communicate Better with Teams? Discover 3 Uplifting Ways

Communication is a bridge. It connects leaders who desire to mobilise their teams effectively to create outstanding results with teams that want to feel engaged, motivated, and energised to ... Read More Apr 22, 2024

Know When your Passion can Become a Leadership Challenge.

If you consider yourself a passionate leader, you must be familiar with the intensity with which you experience your life and work. You bring high energy to the workplace, which mobilises your teams to achieve results and fuels your own ... Read More Dec 05, 2023

Unlock the Right Mindset to a Fulfilling 2023

Unlock the Right Mindset to a Fulfilling 2023

Are you still feeling hesitant about creating goals this year? What if I told you - let's chuck goals out of the window this year and focus on rebuilding the right Mindset to achieve our best year? Would you be surprised? <p ... Read More Jan 19, 2023

Discover how to be an inspiring people-centric leader

Discover How to Be An Inspiring People-Centric Leader

People are a company's most important asset, and people-centricity is the secret sauce of a leader's success. From directly including employees in decisions to supporting them in reaching their full poten ... Read More Oct 18, 2022

Relationship Management Strategy

A Powerful Relationship Management Strategy

If you want to improve your relationship-building skills, this strategy will help you enhance them. Let's say you walk into the office one fine morning and notice your colleague Lisa looking distressed. If you wish her and move o ... Read More Jul 24, 2022

Five Ways to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome

Five Ways to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome

I recall coaching a very successful vice president of a large firm who confessed struggling with the imposter syndrome in his career. He was bright, smart and a hard worker, yet he felt his success was a fluke and he questioned if he rea ... Read More Jun 08, 2022

Knowing When Your Inner Drive Becomes a Risk

Knowing When Your 'Inner Drive' Becomes a Risk

As a leader do you sense that despite a strong 'Inner Drive' you are missing something in the workplace? Your drive - your strong desire to achieve your goals and results fuels your energy, it gives you momentum. ... Read More May 04, 2022

Build Confidence

Tricks to Build Your Confidence

Confidence can be fragile. It cannot stay consistently high all the time. Even the most confident people face times of self-doubt. Additionally, our levels of confidence can be situational and context-driven. For e.g, we may be v ... Read More Apr 05, 2022

Why your vision matters

Why ‘Your Vision’ Matters

As human beings, we share the common desire to feel fulfilled in our lives. We seek fulfilment from the life we live, our relationships and our work. Often fulfi ... Read More Feb 10, 2022

Executive Presence

Unlock the Doors to Executive Presence

Executive Presence is one of the most valued leadership traits because 'how we show' up is equally or more important than what we do. When workin ... Read More Jan 20, 2022

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What is Emotional Intelligence?

MasterChef Australia, a popular Australian competitive cooking game show based on the original British MasterChef has an activity called 'pressure tests'. During pressure tests, the contestants have to cook outstanding food with a set of ... Read More Jan 07, 2022

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New Job? 5 Questions You Can Ask Your Boss for A Great Start

The power to question is the basis of all human progress - Indira Gandhi No doubt asking the right questions helps in building rapport and deeper connections with people. It ... Read More Dec 09, 2021

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Develop The Art Of Delegation

You glance at the clock, it's 7 pm, and you are still in the office. You promised your daughter you would be home early to help with her project. Looking at your pile of work, a feeling of overwhelm begins to wash over you. You know you ... Read More Sep 24, 2021

Leadership Coaching

Leadership Development with Executive Coaching

If you wanted to develop your leadership, where would you begin? Leadership as a whole is like looking into a kaleidoscope. You see many dimensions, facets and patterns. After all, as leaders, you navigate through a VUCA world that is co ... Read More Jul 09, 2021

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The Emotional Intelligence Dashboard - Ripple Effect of Emotions

When you throw a stone in water, it creates ripples. A bigger stone goes deeper into the water, causing more outward ripples. Our emotions are like the stones we throw. They send ripples through the people in your life and your o ... Read More Jun 19, 2021

Executive Coaching

How Not To Avoid Giving Developmental Feedback

Positive interactions are pivoted mainly to how we feel inside ourselves and our state of mind. When we face the experience of providing developmental feedback, it is natural for us to feel discomfort, awkwardness and emotions ... Read More Jun 16, 2021

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When Women Leaders Define Themselves, They Power Up Presence

Women Leaders can face common challenges as they seek to operate on bigger playing fields. They sometimes struggle to get their voice heard, be seen as influential leaders in their domain besides subject matter experts, and slide comfort ... Read More May 08, 2021

Lead From The Inside To Be A Leader With Greater Influence

Lead From The Inside To Be A Leader With Greater Influence

Leaders are influencers Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Sheryl Sandberg, Steve Jobs, Malala Yousafi, JRD Tata are some examples of leaders who have led themselves with their courage, empowering beliefs, fortitude, innovation, d ... Read More Nov 17, 2020

Becoming Comfortable with Saying No in the Workplace

Becoming Comfortable with Saying 'No' in the Workplace

Do you struggle to say 'No' to requests that you don't want to accept in your workplace? Do you fear retaliation or rejection from the other person? Saying 'No' in the workplace is a crucial skill that Leaders need to develop to be able ... Read More Nov 04, 2020

Want To Create Trust And Inspire People Use Empathy

Want To Create Trust And Inspire People? Use Empathy.

The very word 'empathy' seems out of place in a tough complex business environment that is focused on results. Leaders fear if they demonstrate empathy they may seem too soft and taken advantage of. On the contrary, empathetic le ... Read More Nov 04, 2020

Three Ways to Manage An Angry Colleague

Three Ways to Manage An Angry Colleague

Dealing with an angry person can be a mentally and emotionally exhausting experience. It triggers a range of strong emotions like anxiety, fear, disgust, maybe hopelessness resulting in us bursting into anger ourselves! The impac ... Read More May 20, 2020

Manage Self Doubt

Two Ways Women Executives Can Manage Self Doubt

“An internal report at Hewlett-Packard revealed that women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet 100 per cent of the criteria listed. Men apply if they think they meet 60 per cent of the requirements. This difference has ... Read More Mar 20, 2020

The Burden of Perfectionism

The Burden of Perfectionism

Positive psychology tells us that 'perfectionism' is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting excessively high-performance standards, accompanied by overly critical self-evaluations and concer ... Read More Aug 06, 2019

Three Ways Leaders Can Build Trust in Organizations

Three Ways Leaders Can Build Trust in Organizations

Trust is linked to the feeling of psychological safety. Pause for a moment and think of who do you trust most in your life? Who do you feel safe and secure with? Now think of why do you trust them? Trust ... Read More Aug 06, 2019

Collaborative Executives

Building Collaboration In The Workplace

When assigned common tasks or projects, it can become difficult to understand a colleagues motives or rationale behind their decisions that don’t involve you. This can caus ... Read More Jan 29, 2019

Executive Coaching

Getting The Best Out Of Executive Coaching

Hiring an executive coach is a powerful step towards creating positive change that helps you achieve your vision and results. As you progress with your coaching engagement, your success and growth from coaching hinges on how you ... Read More Aug 28, 2018

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