Moving Beyond ROI: How Can We Measure the Real Impact of People Development?
By Juliane Sterzl
Working environments remain in a state of flux for many organisations. Hybrid working and digital transformation are the two main challenges for...
Luke Lazarus’ Straightforward Consulting Approach comes from Experience with Proven Success
In a highly competitive business environment, most entrepreneurs approach their startups with a man-against-world attitude. The Wall Street and startup world can be a...
The Great Resignation
By Adrian Furnham
Many believe that the young generation is not interested in working, with some calling them the Lazy Generation. The concept of the...
How to Assign KPIs to Your Employees Properly And Effectively
By Syed Balkhi
The success of an organization depends on the combined efforts of the entire team. So as a business owner, you need to...
The Odds of Successful Entrepreneurship: How to Overcome the Holy Grail Syndrome
By Tijs Besieux
In this article, Tijs Besieux discusses the four steps to overcoming the Holy Grail Syndrome, which could hinder an entrepreneur’s road...
Different Ways to Invest in Your Employees
Your employees are the backbone of your company, as they are responsible for running various departments, such as sales, finance, and human resources. It’s...
Bumps in the Road: Recovering From Leadership Setbacks
By Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer
Most leadership setbacks happen, at least partially, because leaders make mistakes. Unfortunately, high achieving leaders are often intolerant of...
The Financial Sector’s Guide to Employee Wellbeing
By Sarah Henson
As the year begins and we start to plan for 2024, many are setting resolutions, perhaps considering how they can prioritise health...
Leadership Development and The High Performing Team: The Wharton Leadership Program
By Jeff Klein
One thing that I’ve never needed to convince an incoming Wharton MBA student is that they should become a leader.
By now, our...
Leading Teams: Tools and Techniques for Successful Team Leadership from the Sports World
By Paolo Guenzi & Dino Ruta
Sport can use some managerial know-how, and managers have a lot to learn from the world of sport. Below,...
Releasing the Potential of All
By Mark Anderson
How will you cultivate great leadership to drive superior performance? In this article, the author elaborates on the importance of unleashing the...
Can You Teach Leadership?
By Adrian Furnham
Can leadership be taught or is it an innate talent? This age-old question has been the topic of many debates in the...
Emotional Intelligence as a Game Changer in Global Business
By Dr Anna Maria Rostomyan, PhD Mentor, Swiss School of Business Research
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) can be considered to be one of the cornerstones...
Meditation in the Workplace: A Guide to Benefits and Integration
By Emil Bjerg, editor and journalist of The European Business Review
Meditation has gotten a lot of attention in the workplace in recent years, and...
A Fresh Perspective
By Damian Goldvarg
Increasing numbers of individuals and organisations are discovering the powerful role that coaching can play in developing themselves. Below, Damian Goldvarg illustrates...
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Get to know all the tools and APPs that have been developed to help coaches, consultants and managers to become more effective in Tomorrowland.
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Creativity at Work
By Adrian Furnham
Creativity is not an easy topic to research and few serious scientists conduct work in the area. First, creativity is difficult to...
Coaching for the Future
Using the example of the Indian company J.K. Organisation, this article shows how the adoption of a coaching culture has transformed the organization, setting...
Empowering Women through the Transformative Power of Coaching
Coaching has long been lauded as one of the most transformative learning interventions, and research indicates that women derive a host of benefits from...
Coaching: The Key to Your Success
Individuals and teams are turning to professional coaching for support in maximising their personal and professional potential. ICF Credential represents the gold standard in...
How Women Leaders Build The Career They Thrive In
By Christie Hunter Arscott and Lauren Noël
Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead,...
Tech Giants Embrace Women’s History Month: Insights on Appreciation and Corporate Culture
By Vladimir Polo
History
United States, 1911 the Socialist Party of America organized International Women's Day to honor the women's labor movement.
California, 1978, the first Women's...
Workplace and Mental Health: Building Effective Leaders by Enhancing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Breaks the...
By Marcelina Horrillo Husillos, Journalist and Correspondent at The European Business Review
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that mood disorders such as anxiety and...
How to Overcome Fear of Standing Out at the Workplace
By Syed Balkhi
Standing out at the workplace can be intimidating, especially if you’re an introvert. However, overcoming this fear is essential if you want...
Becoming More Visionary When You Are Motivated by Immediate Results
By Jenny Fernandez
Leaders often prioritise immediate results, but visionary leadership requires balancing short-term gains with long-term strategy. This involves embracing flexibility, empowering teams, and...
AIM for Fairness
By Chris Nichols, Philippa Hardman and Michael Chaskalson
Earlier articles in this series have introduced Team Mindfulness using the AIM model and explored how the...
7 Things a Good Leader Should Encourage in Their Employees
In order to be a good manager, it is important that you provide a positive work environment. A big part of that is ensuring...
Through the Ceiling and Over the Cliff? Catch-22 for Women Executives
A new program for women executives combines business acumen with leadership development and career reflection. It’s an approach designed to strengthen the key skills...
Leading with Care and Authenticity: Going Back to Basics with Toyama&Co.
Interview with Claudio Toyama, CEO of Toyama&Co.
In today’s time of unprecedented change, leaders who can create positive influence that reaches every level of an...
Unlocking Leaders’ Potential
CareSource, one of the largest public sector managed care companies in the United States partners with ICF (International Coaching Federation) to deliver Leadership Transition...
Uncovering the Path to our Dreams: CoachHub’s Coaching Program Points the Way
Interview with CoachHub Senior Behavioural Scientist Windy Tshepiso Maledu
In a virtual work environment, the challenge is to enable everyone to feel seen and heard. Here,...
Revisiting HR Challenges at the Dawn of 2024
By Pedro Cesar Martínez Moran and Simon L. Dolan
A new year is always an appropriate time to stop and evaluate progress in any given endeavour...
Trust-Me: A Concept and Metric to Embed in Leaders, Enhancing their Effectiveness
By Simon L. Dolan, Kyle Brykman and Shay S. Tzafrir
Every leader needs to inspire trust in their followers, employees, and stakeholders. Trust is one...
The Mindful Leader – Staying Resilient, Collaborating and Thriving in Complexity
By Michael Chaskalson and Megan Reitz
Political and economic instability, climate change, globalisation, disruption, an unprecedented pace of change and overwhelming channels of communication –...
Closing the Leadership Gap
By John Sutherland
Traditional leadership development programmes operate with a one-size-fits-all mentality. Below, John Sutherland argues that the key to developing the right kind of...
Synergy or Conflict? Lessons for managers on how to successfully adopt AI to augment...
By Jakob Stollberger and David De Cremer
Artificial intelligence undeniably offers the potential to improve decision-making, at least in certain contexts. In this article, AI experts Jakob Stollberger...
Coaching: What is it and does it work?
By Adrian Furnham
Business coaching is big business. Two years ago, the International Coaching Federation had 53,000 members and estimated that there were 100,000 life...
Coaching and Leadership Development
By Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.
This research paper imparts coaching education to executives to enhance their leadership skills and abilities. It justifies why successful leaders...
Empathy: A Cornerstone in the Success of Your Company
By Dr. Anna Maria Rostomyan
IQ is a long-standing measure of a person's intelligence and, perhaps, their suitability for a given role. But it is...
Re-Defining HR Leadership in the New Hybrid Work Era, with a Touch of Humanity
By Arancha Torres Gonzalez
Jacinda Ardern is often hailed as one of the great leaders of the 21st century. She helped guide New Zealand through...
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
By Stan Slap
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed...
How Can Good Leadership Solve the Soft-skill Gap that Gen Z’ers Experience When Entering...
By Erik Maier
Gen Z are ‘anxiously optimistic digital natives in pursuit of face-to-face interaction’, a recent survey revealed. When it comes to the workplace,...
Magdalena Mook, Executive Director & CEO, International Coach Federation
We all take risks in life and that’s why working with professional coaches is important; it should not be a matter of good fortune.
Magdalena...
Using Stories to Create Exceptional Performance
By Lior Arussy
Arguably one of the most powerful examples of a performance-defining event for a company was done by a chain-smoking, alcohol-drinking CEO. His...
The Use of Dopamine to Enhance Resilience in a Post COVID-19 Era: Lessons From...
By Simon L. Dolan and Kyle M. Brykman
Introduction
Resilience is an emerging concept in business and psychology. Its origins are in the school of thought...
Claiming Your Value: A Key Skill for Women in Transition
By Sally Helgesen
“What’s your worth?” might be one of the more difficult questions that women, particularly in the corporate world, need to face. In...
Transforming Employee Performance One Coaching Conversation at a Time
By Brian Souza
Why is it that so many good people are such bad managers? It’s an interesting question, isn’t it? Often when I give...
Closing the Gender Gap
A growing body of research and anecdotal evidence shows a positive correlation between gender-balanced corporate leadership and organisational performance. Despite this, a significant gap...
Using Technology To Turn The Dial On Inclusion: The Mental Health Opportunity
By Barbara Harvey
The stigma long associated with mental health challenges is fading. Companies should turn that to their advantage. Technology can help.
Companies increasingly understand...
Authenticity at Work: Be Honest, is it a Good Thing?
By Adrian Furnham
It is often said that honesty is the best policy. But if we apply that maxim invariably and unquestioningly, does that automatically...
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