Making Yourself Small: 5 Hidden Habits That Quietly Hurt You
Making Yourself Small: 5 Hidden Habits That Quietly Hurt You Making yourself small rarely looks dramatic. She’s prepared. She knows her subject better than most people at the table. And when the moment comes, she softens her point, waits too long, or hands her idea to someone else before she’s finished saying it. If that sounds familiar, this post is for you. It’s also the…
I Don’t Know What I Want to Do Next With My Career — Here’s a Coaching Exercise That Helps
I Don’t Know What I Want to Do Next With My Career — Here’s a Coaching Exercise That Helps I hear this a lot. From clients, from coaches I supervise, and honestly, from myself at different points over the last twenty years. It’s a strange place to be. You’ve got clarity on one half of the equation “this isn’t it, whatever “it” currently is” and…
4 Signals It Might Be Time for a Career Change
A practical framework to help you recognise when it’s time for a career change and what to do next. Most people don’t recognize that it is time for a career change. They wait until something breaks, their energy, their motivation, sometimes even their confidence. But the real signal shows up much earlier.It shows up when you can no longer sustain high performance, or when you…
Coaching Leadership Style: 4 Hidden Tensions Leaders Must Navigate
Coaching Leadership Style: 4 Hidden Tensions Leaders Must Navigate I’ve been delivering coaching skills training for leaders for years, and one thing continues to surprise me. Most people feel they already understand coaching leadership style. The language is familiar, curiosity, listening, powerful questions, and development-focused conversations. Yet every time I run a session, I see how differently it shows up from one organisation to another,…
Self-Care in Leadership: Why Looking After Yourself Is a Responsibility, Not a Luxury
Self-care in leadership is not a personal preference or a lifestyle trend.It is a professional responsibility. If you lead people or work closely with others’ thinking and development, how you look after yourself directly affects how well you look after others. The reality is simple:If you can’t find time to look after yourself, you will eventually stop looking after your team or your clients well….
Leadership Loneliness is Real and Community Matters
Leadership loneliness is everywhere at this time of year. In the last few weeks, I have heard it from HR directors, senior leaders, scale-up founders, strategy consultants and coaches. People who look confident and composed from the outside, yet quietly admit they are carrying more than ever. It is rarely dramatic. It is that low-level, constant sense of having to hold it all together on…