Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about... read more →

I've just finished delivering a two-day workshop on resilience and leadership in emergencies. While I know a lot about leadership and leading change and transformation, and some about... read more →

I was getting ready to run a resilience and leadership in emergencies workshop recently, and I realised that I needed to do some serious investigation into the stages... read more →

You’re getting a new boss. Do you understand their expectations? How do you build a relationship with them? How do you get on with a manager when you... read more →

So here we are heading into the end of 2020, and there are still a lot of challenges. What I am hearing from leaders is they are tired.... read more →

You might know by now that I'm in the process of publishing my second book, First Lead Yourself. The hardest part is over, the writing, and now it's all... read more →

I just got off the phone with a client, and she shared with me that for the last six months or so she has been working more than... read more →

Have you ever been stuck? I mean, really stuck and so frustrated because even though you thought something was important to you, you just can't seem to make... read more →

How are you? I mean it, really, how are you? It's been an unusual six to nine months, depending on where you are in the world. I know... read more →

Back in my corporate days I worked for one organisation which had, to put it mildly, a horrible meeting culture. There were too many meetings. The meetings lasted... read more →

I hear from so many leaders that they simply don't have time to coach their people. I remember a few years ago when I was working with a... read more →

Last week I was speaking with Gary, an operational director,  who explained to me that he really needed his senior leaders to take a bit more accountability. To... read more →

In a coaching session this week with May, a senior executive, she told me that her leader is not taking action on any of the things they... read more →

Speaking to a client last week, he said to me ‘I’m so glad we’re through the worst of it [COVID]’. That’s a pretty big assumption right now. The... read more →

As well as being a practising coach, I have been teaching people how to coach for over 10 years. So it’s not surprising that I often get asked about... read more →