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Oct 13, 2023
Managing burnout in a BANI world
How can businesses assess their leader's capacity for resilience within a BANI climate?
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Feb 22, 2022
Post-COVID career concerns
What businesses can do to engage with their employees and support their career development within the business.
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Jul 06, 2022
10 key questions to ask when qualifying as a solicitor
Qualifying as a solicitor
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Mar 20, 2024
Connecting the Dots Between Coaching and Retention: An Insurance Policy Against Turnover
Half of all people who are quitting jobs and moving on would have stayed if their employer had “done something.” The bigger question for employers who are losing some of their best people is – done what?
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Mar 05, 2024
Reimagining Performance Reviews: Moving to Performance Coaching
Decades of concern about negative impacts of annual performance reviews has crystallized into a growing consensus among academics, HR executives and many business leaders: when they are done badly or the wrong methodology is used, they can do more harm than good.
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Dec 07, 2023
How to Launch a Successful Executive Portfolio Career
After more than nine years as the Vice President of Global Markets, Policy, for General Motors and a long career on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Lee Godown was not interested in retirement. He wanted to step back, figure out what was most important to him and then decide what he was going to do next.
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Apr 16, 2024
Coaching: Making Leadership Development Stick
Traditional leadership development can be very effective on its own. However, coaching can take the skills, behaviours and mindsets that form the curriculum in a classroom or group learning experience and turn them into personal, customised solutions that help leaders learn more, more quickly, and retain that knowledge longer.
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Mar 28, 2022
Reskilling the C-Suite: Leading into the Future
C-suite executives are not being asked to personally match the reskilling demands that are being placed on other levels of the leadership hierarchy. There are some very basic things senior business leaders can do to ensure you are transforming yourself at the same pace and magnitude as you are trying to change your organisations.
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Jan 09, 2024
Succession Planning: 6 ways to tell if your leadership is future-proof
Succession planning is the best way to future-proof your business. Assess how prepared your leadership is for the future with these six key questions.
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May 12, 2022
2022 State of the Industry Report: The Great Reckoning—How the Pandemic Completely Upended the Career Transition Industry
Heavy hitters in the career transition industry are pulling out of long-standing engagements. Career transition support has been pared way back. In a stroke of ultimate irony, the industry that has responded when employers need to downsize is undergoing its own unparalleled downsizing.
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Jun 22, 2023
The role of leadership in building self-sustaining, effective teams
Leadership capability is a good starting point for organisations that want to build high-performing teams – effective teams have effective leaders.
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Dec 14, 2022
Is Elon Musk a New Role Model for CEOs?
As hard as it is to imagine, business news outlets are rushing to at least ask the question about whether Musk – the billionaire who bought Twitter this fall, laid off half of its employees and pressed remaining staff to go “hardcore” or just go – had somehow become a role model for the modern CEO.