Five Ways to Maximise Coaching Uptake

Workplace coaching is an investment that provides distinct benefits for both employees and organisations. To realise a return on this investment, you’ll want workers to actually take advantage of it. Before you choose to move forward with workplace coaching at your organisation, consider following these five tips to bolster employee buy-in from the get-go:  … Continue reading Five Ways to Maximise Coaching Uptake

Identifying and Addressing Your Burnout

Burnout is a management and organisational issue—not an individual one. Most of the time, it’s triggered by a disconnect between what an employee needs and what their employer is providing. The first step in addressing the problem is figuring out what’s causing it. If you’re feeling burned out, consider which of the following mismatches might… Continue reading Identifying and Addressing Your Burnout

It’s Never Too Late to Change Careers

Get ready for change!

Millions of people have left their jobs this year. According to McKinsey’s Great Attrition report, this isn’t just a passing trend, or a pandemic-related change to the labour market.  There’s been a fundamental shift in workers’ mentality, and their willingness to prioritise other things in their life beyond whatever job they hold.  People want success… Continue reading It’s Never Too Late to Change Careers

The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Every Day

Leadership is learned behaviour that becomes unconscious and automatic over time.  For example, leaders can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question.   Indeed, many people wonder how leaders know how to make the best decisions, often under immense pressure.  The process of making these decisions comes… Continue reading The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Every Day

How AI Can Support Executive Search

Technology is transforming the way business is now conducted and Artificial Intelligence, in particular, seems to be the focus in many business sectors. “AI is allowing a machine to replicate cognitive abilities found in human beings to make tasks easier, effective, and efficient,” (Taplow) It has transformed the manufacturing, medical, retail and multiple other sectors, but what… Continue reading How AI Can Support Executive Search

Ask This Question at Your Next Meeting

When was the last time you left a work meeting feeling inspired, motivated, or energised? If you’re like most people, the answer is seldom. Team meetings, in particular, suffer a dreadful reputation. They’re considered unproductive, unnecessary, exhausting, disorganised, and stressful. Worse, they eat up valuable time, prevent us from moving the needle on important projects, and leave us… Continue reading Ask This Question at Your Next Meeting

Designing Jobs Right

Why Do People Redefine Their Jobs? Virtually everyone is motivated to succeed, but people don’t experience a sense of success when a job is too easy. Alternatively, they won’t succeed at all if the job is far beyond their capabilities. If they can do the job but find it unchallenging, they’ll redefine its scope so… Continue reading Designing Jobs Right

4 Leadership Trends For The Future Of Work As We Leap Into 2023

2023 is here and labour industry experts are looking ahead at how the workplace landscape will continue to evolve now that the needs and wants of employers and employees have shifted over the past three years. Some experts predict things will be worse in 2023 than the 2008-2009 recession . . . by a long… Continue reading 4 Leadership Trends For The Future Of Work As We Leap Into 2023

The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching

Given a choice between working one-on-one with an executive coach or working with a group of peers in a facilitated coaching process, most executives would choose the former. Surely, the thinking goes, it’s better to have an experienced coach’s focused attention instead of relying on dialogue with your peers to support your development. The coach… Continue reading The Surprising Power of Peer Coaching