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The Coaching Paradox: Why the Best Performers Seek Coaching First

Every fortnight, millions of people watch elite performers compete at the highest level. 

Formula 1 drivers have performance coaches. Wimbledon champions have coaching teams. World Cup-winning footba...

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Coaching Delivers Value when Psychological Safety Exists

Executive coaching, leadership coaching, and career development programmes are viewed as powerful tools for unlocking potential and supporting organisational change.

Psychological safety, a concept p...

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The Emotional Cost of Leadership Overload 

Overload changes the quality of leadership itself.  

Across industries, senior leaders are operating inside environments shaped by so many demanding factors. These include; continuous change, rising ...

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When Organisational Strengths Become Constraints

Why caring organisations can find accountability harder as they grow

Many organisations are trying to preserve trust, loyalty and humanity while also increasing pace, ownership and performance.

Th...

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Restructuring Changes More Than Reporting Lines

Most restructures are introduced with a clear commercial rationale. Greater accountability, faster decision making, improved efficiency and stronger customer focus have become familiar priorities for ...

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10 Tips To Overcoming Stress

Stress affects one in five of the working population from the shop floor to the board room. 105 million days are lost every year; costing British employers ÂŁ1.24 billion per annum. (Source: Health & S...

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Let your Feminine Power Shine

I’ve been thinking a lot about feminine power lately and how, as leaders, we can allow this to shine through our work. When we think about feminine power, we are focusing in on the specific traits tha...

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The Gender Pay Gap In the UK

April is the month when the UK Government publishes it’s annual Gender Pay Gap. Companies over 250 employees have a mandatory reporting obligation to report and publish their gender and bonus pay gaps...

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Maximise Your Productivity with this 100-year-old hack

Productivity. We all want to be more productive. To make more of the time we have. After all we only have those sacred 24 hours in a day. And how is that some people seem to get so much more done than...

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The Four Energies of Leadership

“Energy not time is the fundamental currency of high performance.”

What a great quote and taken from the excellent book: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz.

The concept of L...

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