Cinderella slipper effect All about finding right foot for that slipper – great metaphor to use re recruitment; creating teams; choosing leaders; discovering what works best. The right fit: How often do we: try and fit into someone else’s preferred way of doing...
When words catch the winds of change by Paul Gilbert LBC Wise Counsel January 2021 When words catch the winds of change, we do not just hear them, but we feel them too. It has been a more comfortable week for rhetoric. Bombast, aggression, unkindness and...
The hill we climb – Amanda Gorman read at the 46th US President’s Inauguration When day comes we ask ourselves,where can we find light in this never-ending shade?The loss we carry,a sea we must wadeWe’ve braved the belly of the beastWe’ve learned that quiet isn’t...
Case Studies and Testimonials at the end of a Coaching Programme Global Innovations & Engagement Officer – International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO) Thanks to coaching I am now able to – trust my own decision making and have techniques to put in place...
Expert’s take: Five steps to make the COVID-19 social protection and jobs responses work better for women Constanza Tabbush is a Research Specialist at UN Women. She co-authored the latest edition of UN Women’s flagship report, Progress of the World’s Women,...
Leadership Teams - books to research Ask for it: How women can use the power of negotiation to get what they want by Babcock & Lascheves The Power of the Positive No by William Ury The New Brain by Richard Restack Nine conversations in partnership by Hannah...
Leadership Books - selection for reference Leadership Books The Art of Possibility Rosamund Stone & Benjamin Zander The Daily Drucker Peter F. Drucker Difficult Conversations Douglas Stone, Brue Patton & Sheila Heen The Fifth Discipline: The Art &...
Redefine failure - a New View on 2020, Part III by Whitney Johnson Almost everyone had failures in 2020, writes Whitney Johnson, CEO of consultancy group WLJ Advisors. "Whether we see an experience as a failure or success is a choice. It is always a choice." For the...
Six Essential Lessons for female leaders In a rich conversation full of practical insights, former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard and former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala reflect on their experiences as women leaders in positions of global...