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Your Inner Dialogue Shapes Your Outer Leadership
Our inner dialogue is the foundation of self-leadership…… it influences our confidence, decision-making, and emotional resilience.
Welcome to 2025: A Year of Learning, Re-Learning, and Unlearning
As we embrace the fresh start that 2025 offers, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on our past experiences and set our sights on the future
Do You Love to See Your Colleagues Flourish?
When we delight in others’ success, we create an atmosphere where everyone feels valued, safe, and motivated.
Can you tolerate doing something that is just good enough?
So, how do we decide when perfection is needed and when good enough is just that—good enough?
Are you a work in progress? And is that OK?
Giving yourself permission to be a work in progress means recognising the foundation you're building on and acknowledging that growth is an essential part of becoming a more effective leader.
How are you supporting yourself?
Think of yourself as a lighthouse. Just as a lighthouse must maintain its light to guide ships safely to shore, a leader must take care of themselves to effectively guide and support their team.
What does excessive self-criticism cost you?
Excessive and unnecessary self-criticism undoubtedly costs us dearly. Yet we are often unaware of the degree to which it impacts us individually and collectively.
Do you avoid giving feedback?
In this article, we'll explore some common barriers to providing effective feedback and conclude with three practical tips that can help us refine our feedback skills.
Welcome to 2024: A Year of Learning, Re-Learning, and Un-learning
As we embrace the fresh start that 2024 offers, it’s the perfect moment to reflect on our past experiences and set our sights on the future.
The Unfolding Quest of Self-Awareness
The unfolding process of self-awareness is more than a mere journey—it’s an essential quest. The unfolding journey can be riddled with obstacles, that can distract us from the necessary work of taking a neutral perspective and learn and grow at deeper levels.
Outer progress starts with inner work
Career development isn't just about acquiring skills; it's about strengthening our inner foundation of self-leadership to cultivate fertile soil for our growth and development. In this piece, I've outlined key steps to help you build your sense of self, self-belief, and self-trust to provide the groundwork for outer progress.
How effective are you at receiving feedback?
Do you invite feedback from others as a way of modelling the skills of receiving feedback? This is a hugely impactful way of building psychologically safe relationships. Read the full article to learn more about the 11 principles of receiving feedback well.
Is your feedback psychologically safe?
Feedback conversations are powerful. They can be a wonderful or terrible experience for all parties involved. So how can we ensure we provide feedback to our colleagues and teams in a psychologically safe manner?
International Women's Day 2023: Thriving With Self-Leadership
I want to take a moment to consider the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day. It’s such an important topic, and seeing it being acknowledged is great for us all.
5 Leadership Myths to Let Go For Good
In the realm of leadership, you’ll often come across a range of long-standing ideas and perspectives around what leadership ‘is’ or ‘should be’.
Human First Feedback: What it is & How to Deliver it
As leaders it is important to consider how we influence how others may feel. How we deliver feedback is a great place to start. When thinking of colleagues as ‘human first’, there’s a lot we can utilise to help us as leaders ensure we’re providing feedback that supports the humans we work with.