Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Wellbeing
One of the most important aspects of leaving is doing it with dignity, whether it’s voluntary or involuntary. In his recent article Professor John A. Quelch provided a terrific set of tips for resigning and leaving your organisation. As he cautions, no matter how...
Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance
In FlexAbility, I write about the continuing challenges of adopting flexible work practices: at the root of the challenges are leaders who are ambitious, competitive and overconfident. These are the leaders chasing continuous growth whatever the cost, seeking ever...
Career Acceleration, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Purpose
With the labour market in free-fall and organisations out-paying each other by ridiculous amounts, Elena decided to take a punt on finding an organisation and a boss with whom she felt a better sense of fit. It wasn’t that her current job was unfulfilling; she...
Coaching, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
Being caring, empathetic and human-centered is the best way to counteract the issue of heavy workloads and expectations of more, more, more. I thought we’d reached the limits of what was reasonable to expect from others, and from ourselves, some time ago…. Last year,...
Coaching, Culture, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation
The demands of leadership continue to increase in pace and complexity. Leaders have to care about more things than ever before. Why should caring about people be elevated to leaders’ number one concern?Under the pressure of escalating demands, most leaders adopt...