How to Develop a Growth Mindset
Having the right mindset can help you make leaps and bounds in both your leadership career and your personal life. You’ve probably heard that having a growth mindset is crucial…
Leaders: Stop labelling and start communicating
Labelling others. We do it all the time. Labels make life easy for us. In the supermarket, labels make it easy to identify and pick up the exact items we…
Feeling undervalued saps your confidence, but the person to change this is you
In a previous role, I lost my confidence. I remember how good it felt to get a new job – how great I felt to make my way through the…
If you’re doubting yourself, it’s time to replace affirmations with facts
I’ve been working with a leader recently who is going through the recruitment process. He has completed his application form and has been invited to an interview. It’s the job…
If you’re not listening, your meetings are a waste of everyone’s time
Before my mum passed away, she used to phone me every evening at 6pm to have a quick chat. This started back in the days when it was cheaper to…
If you keep hearing ‘no’, try a different approach
When negotiating or entering discussions in the workplace, it’s easy to talk about what energises and excites you rather than trying to frame the discussion from another’s point of view….