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Book Reviews Impostor Syndrome Mastery Psychology

Becoming Flawesome: Embrace Your Imperfections and Live Your Truth

Title: Becoming Flawesome: Embrace Your Imperfections and Live Your Truth Author: Kristina Mand-Lakhiani Publisher: Hay House Publishing Publication Date: July 2023 “Becoming Flawesome,” a deeply insightful work by Kristina Mand-Lakhiani, is a testament to authenticity and self-love, urging readers to let go of societal pressures and embrace their flaws. Hailed as “10 years’ worth of […]

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Adaptive Teams Mastery Remote and Hybrid Teams Technology

Future of Work: How to Navigate The Changing Landscape and Succeed

With the ever-changing work landscape, being adaptable is now more important than ever. “Adapt or die”, said Charles Darwin, who established the theory of natural selection. While true for living things, it’s especially true for the work landscape. That’s why being adaptable gives anyone a competitive advantage in a dynamic environment. But first, how exactly […]

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Coaching Development Leadership Personal Brand Potential

A Tasmanian Success Story – Taking it international in an age of COVID-19

2020 was a pretty tough year for business in general, and a sector that has taken a big hit is training and development. Many operations shut their doors, some permanently, as everyone struggled to cope in the wake of mass cancellations. In a couple of short weeks, the industry went from boom to bust. For […]

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Change Coaching Emotional Intelligence Leadership Mindfulness Motivation Personality reflection

Tips for getting the best from your leadership coaching

If you are a leader, a business person or just want to learn to be more effective at work, executive coaching is one of the best investments you will ever make in yourself. A good coach helps you gain clarity and provides a safe yet challenging environment for you to practice self awareness and to […]

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Emotional Intelligence Employee Engagement Leadership Motivation Teamwork Values and Behaviours

4 key characteristics of effective leaders

I have spent many years working with, observing, teaching and coaching leaders. I have also heard many stories from employees about leaders they have loved to work for and those they have not enjoyed as much. There are some key themes that I have observed in leaders who are highly effective and get the best […]

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Emotional Intelligence Leadership Mindfulness reflection Values and Behaviours

The importance of values

I have been working a lot with clients on values recently and it led me to doing a new values elicitation exercise for myself. I last defined my values in 2004, as part of coaching I was getting to help me through a particularly challenging and draining work situation. I was interested to see if […]

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Change Emotional Intelligence Leadership Mindfulness Motivation reflection

5 reasons leaders need time out!

In working with leaders, and facilitating leadership programs, one of the key things I am hearing is that leaders are increasingly critically time poor. I had the pleasure of spending 2 days recently with a group of women leaders in a program and the key theme that came out was how valuable it was to […]