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Pay attention to your attention – why you need to spend that precious resource with care
In this article I talk about how we can train our minds to pay attention to what is really important and nourishing for us, fuelling us to make the impact we want.
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Here’s Seven Leadership “To-Dos” for a Successful Second-Half!
In this article I offer seven mid-year reminders to add to your to-do list if you want to make 2022 a successful year.
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Why it’s important to fuel your self-belief before you set goals for 2022 – how to learn what to pay attention to
In this article I talk about why it’s important to fuel your self-belief before you set goals for 2021 and how to learn what to pay attention to.
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Are we there yet? How cultivating a pioneering spirit can push career frontiers for you and others
In this article I offer some ideas on how we can reframe our challenges to energise us to forge new paths.
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Political Savvy – Warning! Avoiding politics at work won’t make you a leader
In this article I look at why we need to be politically savvy as women leaders and how to do it with skill and integrity.
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The most important skill to learn for your leadership career – how to move from reacting to responding
In this article I look at the most important skill to learn for your leadership career – how to move from reacting to responding.
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Why Leadership Purpose is Important and how to find it
In this article I talk about how important it is for us to create our purpose and live it through our leadership.
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How to bring your humanity to work to be a better leader in a suffering world
In this article I talk about how as leaders we need to be taking care as well as taking charge, consciously practising compassionate management to better help our teams and ourselves in the many months ahead.
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Lockdown lessons – how to take this opportunity to rethink working practices
In this article I talk about how lockdown has thrown work and home roles into sharp relief for both women and men and how life starting to open up again is giving us all a chance to stop and think what ‘new working normal’ we actually want.
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Building and demonstrating resilience in a time of crisis
In this article I look at how to ride the changes, respond to the challenges and keep our teams and companies going during difficult times, and why this is when resilient leaders really come into their own, boosting their teams and keeping them focused on dealing with the present and being optimistic about the future.
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Getting comfortable with power – why we need to and why it’s a challenge
In this article I talk about why leaders are ambivalent about power and exercising it and why it’s important to get comfortable with exercising your power.
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Talk it Up: How to Reframe Your Negotiation Approach to Make it a Conversation Worth Having
In this article I look at some of the challenges for women as they negotiate and an approach to make it more successful.
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How Building your Positivity Currency Makes you a Better Leader
In this article you will find good reasons (and great techniques!) for building positivity into your life and leadership.
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Actual talent or self-perceived talent?- know how to spot competence not just confidence
In this article I talk about why we need as leaders and HR practitioners to ensure that we are judging the right things when we are spotting and determining talent.
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Be The Change – The Simple Things Leaders CAN Do Every Day to Make a Positive Difference to Gender Diversity
In this article I discuss the simple things leaders CAN do every day to make a positive difference to gender diversity.
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Your Best Leadership Self Starts with a Paradox Mindset
In this article I talk about how women leaders can navigate competing expectations and paradoxes in a world where their expertise and behaviour are judged differently to men’s.
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Let’s Hear it for the Boys – Men Want to be Carers and We Need to Let Them
In this article I talk about how encouraging and supporting men in doing more caring is an obvious accelerant to keeping women in, and advancing along, the talent pipeline.
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Ambition is Not a Dirty Word
In this article, I explore why so many women feel they can’t own their ambition and shout about their success, and why that can be a problem for their progression (let alone their fulfilment).
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Four Simple Keys to Unlock Your Leadership Potential This Year
In this article I provide a reminder of the 4 things that make a difference to your leadership impact and offer advice for unleashing your full potential in 2020 and making this year even better than last.
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How to Stop Apologising and Start Asking for Forgiveness
In this article I explore why women apologise more than men and why exhorting them to simply stop doing things and be more confident isn’t that helpful for a number of reasons.
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Be the Lighthouse, not the Lifeboat
In this article I talk about why women need to be mindful about what they volunteer for.
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5 Ways to Inspire Excellence in Your Team
In this article I provide 5 tips for inspiring excellence in your team.
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The 3 things that make for Executive Presence – and how to build them
In this article I offer some tips for taking control of what’s happening on the INSIDE and what’s happening on the OUTSIDE to build your executive presence.
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Empathy: A leader’s superpower
In this article I talk about why empathy builds organisational and individual success.
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This is Why You Need a Sponsor
In this article I talk about why a sponsor makes a quantifiable difference in every measure of career success.
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6 Stress Management Tips for Female Leaders
In this article I provide 6 tips that executives can implement to manage the stress caused by the daily demands of the workplace.
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The 6 reasons we should NOT invest in leadership development designed specifically for women
In this article I explain why we need to really understand the power of working with individual female leaders to ensure women can thrive in senior roles.
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Getting your voice heard at meetings – how to speak up with impact and integrity
In this article I talk about why being heard is important to us. To our purpose, our identity and to our leadership.
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5 Time Management and Productivity Hacks for the Busy Female Leader
In this article I offer five time management and productivity tips for the busy female leader.
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The most important factor for advancement and how to get it-why building your visibility is so critical
In this article I talk about the critical factors for success and the critical factors for progression.
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5 Successful Goal Setting Tips for Female Leaders
In this article I provide five goal setting tips to help you accelerate your leadership impact.
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The Real Superpower For Women Leaders
In this article I explain why learning to learn will give you a competitive advantage.
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Dealing With Our Negativity Bias And Stopping The Overthinking Chatter
In this article I look at how overthinking can be exhausting and limiting.
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If The World Is A More Negotiable Place For Men, How Do Women Ask?
In this article I look at how and why women and men negotiate differently.
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Networking- why you should do it and how to get good at it
In this article I offer 7 savvy networking tips for female leaders.
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Resilience – it’s more important in a leadership role than talent
In this article I look at resilience, why it is important for our success and how we can build our resilience.
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Why Flexible Working is a Leadership issue, not a Women’s issue
In this article I look at how to make flexible working requests get a ‘yes’ and how as managers we can make great flexible working decisions.
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The Five Sources of Power – how to get good at them for women leaders
In this article I look at how to exercise our power as women leaders with skill, and in a way that doesn’t diminish us in an environment where men and women are perceived differently for the same behaviour.
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Four things that kill our confidence as women
In this article I look at why confidence is so important and what we can do to build it as women leaders.
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Five reasons to have a role model – and how to get one
In this article I look at the power of role models in shaping our leadership capability and how to create them when we can’t find ones we can relate to easily.
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When being authentic gets confused with staying stuck
In this article I look at why striving to be ‘authentic’ can limit our learning to be leaders.
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