Executive Leadership Strategies - Ideal Learning State

How to deepen learning by making your organisation’s climate safer

Coaching, Culture, Ideal Learning State, Leadership, Motivation

‘Jasmine’ is an early-career scientist in a large pharmaceutical company. When she listens to the team’s conversation, she’s concerned. She’s sensing what she believes are significant problems with a batch in production. She’s the only woman working in a team of more...

Psychological safety is central to inclusive cultures

Gender diversity, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Unconscious bias

… yet psychological safety is one of the least attended to aspects of team leadership. The promise of diversity in teams is an innovation dividend. Diversity introduces different information, it is processed and elaborated in new ways, there is more discussion...

Leaders win trust when they show a bit of humanity

Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation

Tim Leberecht’s recent blog on HBR reports on a couple of global surveys that indicate that our trust in leaders in diminishing. He suggests some quirky and interesting ways for leaders to build trust – get emotional, be whimsical, and express doubt....

The Making of a Corporate Athlete

Ideal Learning State

This Harvard Business Review article by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz helps executives understand how to better manage their energy to achieve sustained performance. They use lessons from the training regime of top athletes to identify why our prevailing expectation of...