Superman Is Not Real, Neither Is SuperLeader
By Hakan Kapucu
What do you look for in a leader? Are good entrepreneurs necessarily good leaders? Hakan Kapucu takes a dive into why leaders...
Why Traditional Sales Training Fails Modern B2B Businesses and What to Change
By Helen Wada
Traditional sales training fails in today’s B2B markets; Helen Wada advocates coaching-based approaches that prioritise human capabilities such as curiosity, empathy, and collaboration.
In...
The Future-Fit Leader: The Four Essential Skills You Need Now
By Tom Preston and Luciana Nuñez
In a world defined by disruption and uncertainty, leaders must evolve or risk falling behind. In The Future-Fit Leader,...
How Can You Benefit From Business Coaching Sessions?
Are you an entrepreneur or just a person in the business world who wants to achieve big things and has goals? It probably means...
Presentations, Speeches, and Talks: Getting the Gift of the Gab
By Adrian Furnham
If the very words “Ladies and gentlemen, unaccustomed as I am…” bring you out in a cold sweat, just breathe deeply into...
Needs-Based Coaching: Employee Motivation in a New Light
By Craig Perrin
Behind every unmotivated employee is a leadership problem to be solved. Yet many leaders see motivation as a game of rewards and...
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...
Compassion: The Missing Ingredient to Productivity and Profitability in Business
Interview with Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco on compassion, trust, and human-oriented leadership in business.
In the new edition of your book “The Art of Compassionate Business”,...
Elevating Leadership: A Deep Dive into Coaching Programs and their Integration with Executive Education
Summary
By seamlessly integrating coaching and executive education, organisations create a powerful synergy that nurtures exceptional leaders capable of navigating today’s global business landscape.
Introduction
Leadership coaching...
Queen Bee: What The Beehive Can Teach Us About Women In Leadership?
By Philip Atkinson
The complex and sometimes mysterious workings of a beehive can be a metaphor for working life today.
If we lift the lid of...
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,...
Looking at the Universe as a Systemic Whole: Women in Global Leadership
Interview with Magdalena Mook
CEO, International Coach Federation
The International Coach Federation (ICF) is a rapidly growing organisation, encompassing 26,000 professional coaches globally. The European Business...
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...
Breaking Down Silos with Collaborative Coaching
By Sarah Henson
As technology evolves, organisations need to remain agile. The rapid development of generative AI has required organisations to become more collaborative than...
Achieving Together: Getting Your Leaders on Board, to Inspire Others
By Marcus Wylie
If you're looking to drive meaningful change in your organisation, it begins with your leadership. Marcus Wylie explores how aligned and energised...
Leading as a Coach: Advancing Career, Transforming Life
An Exclusive Interview with Magdalena Nowicka Mook, Executive Director and CEO, ICF
A professional coaching program has proven to be a powerful catalyst for helping...
Experiential Learning: Different Approaches and Best Practices for Learning, Organisational Development and Culture Change...
By Christoph Williams
Experiential learning transforms training into lasting behavioral change, helping organizations strengthen leadership, accelerate innovation, and deliver measurable business results.
Experiential learning delivers greater...
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...
Why Changing Careers Does Not Mean Leaving Your Value Behind
By Dr. Claire Handby
In a world of accelerating workplace transformation, the professionals who move forward best are those who learn to reframe and reapply...
Maintaining a Strong Organisational Culture in a World of Continual Change
By Carole Valette
In today's environment of rapid and constant change, organisational culture has become a crucial focus. With persistent instability—that some are calling...
The 10 Core Habits of Resilient People: Concept and Tools for Resiliency and Wellness...
By Simon L. Dolan, Anat Garti, Miriam Diez Pinol, and Pedro Cesar Martinez Moran
Creating or enhancing resilience has become a buzz phrase in recent...
The Eutopia of Engaging in Unconditional Kindness to Self and Others
By Salvador García Sánchez and Simon L. Dolan
Introduction
“Resilience” seems to be a common term used by professionals in many disciplines. Psychologists and medical experts...
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,...
The Happiness Payoff: How Employee Wellbeing Drives Business Success
By Mark Price
Employee happiness is a crucial driver of business success, enhancing productivity, loyalty, and commercial performance. Lord Mark Price, founder of WorkL, outlines...
Why Empathy is Becoming the Most Scalable Performance Technology in Business
By Melinda McCormack
Human transformation, not digital transformation, will define the next decade of leadership. The leaders who will shape the future will not be...
The Real Reason CEOs Feel “Commercially Lonely” and How to Fix It
By Anthony Moss
Life at the top can be a lonely place. In successful companies, the CEO needs decision-making confidence, and the leadership team needs...
Beyond the Human Coach: AI, Wisdom Traditions, and the Future of Leadership
By Akihiko Morita
As generative AI shifts from a productivity tool to a dialogue partner, leadership faces a fundamental redefinition. Drawing on Eastern and Western...
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...
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...
Why Culture is the Ultimate Business Symptom and NOT a Root Cause of a...
By Jim Vaselopulos
When we think of medical symptoms, fever, chills, or nausea might come to mind. But what about business symptoms? These “problems”, more...
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...
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...
Is It Possible To Grow Your Company With Fewer Clients?
You’ve heard the old adage “less is more,” but just how true is this notion when we apply it to a business setting? For...
How Coaching Leaders Can Drive Talent Mobility and Address Workforce Challenges
By Diane Newell
This article looks at the role of talent mobility in addressing retention challenges and bridging skill shortages. It emphasises how leadership coaching...
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,...
Jobs – and What They Taught Me
By Adrian Furnham
A good education is all very well, but there are some lessons you can’t learn in the classroom. Adrian Furnham recounts his...
The Great Disengaged: Why Re-Recruiting Your Own People is the Smartest Talent Strategy in...
By Dominic Ashley-Timms and Laura Ashley-Timms
Job hugging’ is on the rise as high retention becomes a red flag and silent productivity killer – but...
Identity Threats often Lead to Burn Out and Quitting – But Managers Can Help
By Mailys George
Identity threats in the workplace – feeling devalued, misunderstood or that our sense of self is challenged – can lead to emotional...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
How to Handle a Toxic Colleague – Strategies to Protect Your Wellbeing
By Katia Vlachos
Toxic colleagues don’t always shout or sabotage openly. Often, their behavior is subtle—undermining, exclusionary, and hard to pinpoint. But the impact is...
The Confidence-Building Power of Being Yourself as a Leader
By Julie Smith
Authentic leadership builds multi-layered confidence: your self-trust, the trust others place in you, and the confidence of team members who feel free...
The Evolving Role of Employee Training in Enterprise Talent Management
The business environment today is challenging, to say the least. Executives have numerous balls in the air and are concentrating hard to make sure...
Breakthrough or Breakdown? Diagnosing chronic stress and risk factors in elite athletes in view...
By Simon L. Dolan and Sara Martinez Espejo
Why are elite athletes more susceptible to stress?
Can sports athletes be prepared to better cope...
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...
Winning the War for the Best Female Talent
By Christie Hunter Arscott, Lauren Noël & Douglas Ready
The International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR) identifies five key themes that emerging women leaders...
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...
