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Business Recovery
The challenges that the pandemic has brought into each and every one of our lives has been unprecedented. They’re difficulties that pay no mind to geography, class, gender or creed, I’d argue the impacts of the pandemic have been felt by every person on the planet in some form or another.
7 Secrets to Keeping It Human
7 Secrets to ‘Keeping it Human’ in an Increasingly AI-Driven World
Leadership at the Grand Final
My first impressions of John were positive. He worked as a business advisor and came across as a self-assured professional. We got talking and he inquired about my line of work. I said I’m a change fitness coach (and then had to explain what that means).
Coach to Lead
“A good coach can change a game…a great coach can change a life”
Inclusive Coaching
There’s no doubt about it. Inclusion and diversity is on trend in Australian sport. Being inclusive is the thing to be! Sports now have Inclusion Officers engaged to design programs that create greater diversity in sport participation. Some sports have entire departments dedicated to inclusion and d
Leadership Coaching
Personal Branding Is For Your Fans.Developing a stand out personal brand as coach is exactly like preparing for grand finals, with equal measures of blood, sweat and tears.
HR Coaching
You might be asking, what is this unpacking baggage, I am not traveling! Let’s have a real discussion about baggage. Yep, we all have it. We have good and bad ways of managing ourselves. We have our natural programming that guides us throughout our day. Most of the time, we are not even aware of the
Non-Judgmental Coaching
Many coaches happily claim to be entirely ‘non-judgmental’. I'm happy to admit I've made the same claim on numerous occasions. However, the more I learn about coaching (and myself), the more I'm led to question this claim, including my own version of it. So, let's explore the question, is it humanly
Leadership and Career
Before you spend any more time, money or energy chasing new prospects it might be a good idea to first get CLEAR about the most likely way people will find you.
Career Coaching and Generations
How Career Coaching is Evolving to Serve 5 Generations
Patient Engagement
How Physicians Successfully Implement Engagement Programs
Smart Culture
For the last 8 years, I have worked with over 50 different organisations and believe Smart Culture is foundational to developing great teams, families, and organizations. From the affluent streets of Sydney to the developing streets of Phnom Penh. From corporate biggies, small business, partner comp
Mindful Management and NLP
In Australia/New Zealand, employee engagement scores fall below worldwide engagement levels, despite employees rating satisfaction in their overall life higher than any other global region (Gallup, 2017).
Who Leads the Leaders
I’ve talked to enough C-level clients to know better. Sure, 6 or 7-figure salaries are great and wielding real decision-making power can be intoxicating, but those at the top rungs of corporations oft...
Leading by Example
When it comes to leadership, the biggest (and loudest) message I can send is to lead by example. If you are the business owner who ‘rips off’ your customers, then how can you be possibly shocked when
The Superman Syndrome
It is often accompanied by “My staff are just not motivated”, “I am so busy doing things - I have no time”.
Coaching vs Consulting
I do this by telling them I’m a business coach who doesn’t believe business coaching works; how coaches who are proud they’re not consultants are setting up their clients, and their own business, for
What is Culture
Human beings are hiving creatures, we take our social cues from those around us. So, if we want a shift in culture, within our teams, organisations, communities or industries, we must first look at ho...
Aligning Culture and Capability
True collaboration requires the right balance of people, skill and corporate power to achieve outcomes that are derived from both insight and then leveraged and scaled for application.
The Times They Are A'Changing
There is an evolution going on that is affecting the business world and how we lead and manage within it.
Diversities in Conversation
Whilst I am excited to see a growing recognition of what we do as a profession, the growth is also leading to a significant negative development in the space – there is a complete lack of diversity in...
Listening Across Cultures
The result was that a particular team from a regional office felt disrespected, frustrated and placed little value and trust in the discussion session.
Play Big
I played with the Revolution for a season and the next year we had a new head coach, Wendell Davis former Dallas Cowboys player. He saw how close I was with all the guys and wondered who this girl was...
WTF
Anger is an emotion which is could be argued emerges from violation of values within the gut brain. We have three brains – one in our heard, one in our heart and one in our gut, more later in this art...
Relevance is Viability
There is a seemingly endless trail of businesses whose journeys were cut short due to Leadership Myopia.
The New Direction for Elite Coaching
In elite sport, an athlete’s performance is frequently reviewed and scrutinised accordingly. The pressure to consistently perform is extraordinary, and only those with the strongest bodies and minds w
Coaching in Leadership
Over 15 years ago, HBR published Daniel Goleman’s seminal article Leadership that Gets Results.1 The essence of his argument is:
Increasing Your Coaching Impact by Integrating Training
They also want their leaders to listen and ask questions instead of directing, guiding, fixing them.
Integrating Coaching with Training
LEADERSHIP IS ALWAYS AN EVOLVING CONCEPT. THESE DAYS, EMPLOYEES WANT MORE ONE-ON-ONE TIME WITH THEIR LEADERS TO HELP THEM DEVELOP AND KNOW THEY ARE VALUED.
Leadership Culture: David Angel on Coaching for the Future
For an aspiring Coach (essentially a small business owner) Social Media is actually a convenient, practical and essential tool that you can utilise to ensure…
Prepare to Flex Your Style
15 years of coaching in the Asia Pacific region and 18 years before this in corporate roles with a global company has given me the opportunity to experience …
What does it mean to Recalculate?
We start out with all the enthusiasm in the world before the first in a string of disappointments. Someone tells us we are crazy to think we could reach a go…
Approach Focus vs Avoidance Focus
In reading the last edition of Coaching Life, I was particularly struck by a comment in Stewart’s editorial piece. In talking about the challenge of upholdin…
What Does Your Board Focus On? Avoiding Corporate Drift
Director Di Percy reveals the most common traps that cause boards and leadership teams to lose strategic focus — and how coaches can help organisations stay on course.
Coaching the Boss
And the Boss's Boss
What I know at 73
There are 12 key things I know at 73 that I wished I’d known at 30!
Leadership Through COVID
I stood by the window, waiting for my first coaching client to arrive. I felt nervous, quite unsure of what to expect, but also mixed with a little excitement.
Executive Coaching Through COVID
We learn how to negotiate from a very early age. We ‘negotiate’ corners around a table when we’re first walking, working out how much latitude we have. We negotiate with our parents and siblings, trying to get what we want to meet our needs (with little or no regard to theirs in the early stages). W
Coaching Transcends the Field of Play
As Head Coach of the world champion Australian Diamonds, Lisa Alexander breaks down the five leadership principles that unite grassroots coaches and elite performers alike.