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  • What Women Know about Leadership that Men Don’t

    Courtesy of Tony Schwartz 30 October, 2012 No single challenge has been greater for me as a leader than learning how to take better care of the people I lead, and to create a safe, supportive space in which they … Continue reading

  • Leadership Influencing Styles

    How much influence do you really have? By influence we don’t mean manipulation. We define influence as the capacity to persuade others to do something different because others personally see the value in it. Essentially there are four ways you … Continue reading

  • Enhancing Leadership Effectiveness

    Five key “soft skills” to enhance leadership effectiveness include: Self confidence; value yourself and back your judgement Assertiveness; be straightforward and achieve buy in when communicating Positive energy; engage your people and drive business results Relationships; 80% of our success … Continue reading

  • The WHY of Leadership & Marketing

    Organisations usually think, market and are structured along the lines of: What > How > Why However, according to leadership and marketing expert, Simon Sinek, organisations and leaders must reverse the order to “WHY” > How > What Because people … Continue reading

  • Where Leadership Experts Get it Wrong

    Winning charisma, razor sharp intelligence and personality characteristics such as extraversion are the keys to great leaders, right? Forget it! The most recent research in psychology explodes this myth and reveals the real skills that great leaders possess. Beyond Sticks … Continue reading

  • Your People Are NOT Your Greatest Asset

    It is not people, but the ability to manage people, that is an organisation’s greatest asset, says leadership expert Tony Wilson. Wilson, a performance coach who has worked with elite athletes and corporate executives in Australia and the US, says … Continue reading