Blogs
Are you an assertive communicator? Here’s why you need to be
We've seen significant shifts in the way we work over the past few years. With the rapid pace of change and remote work locations now the norm, effective collaboration and ways of communicating have also inherently changed. For leaders, today’s hybrid environment...
How to develop high-performance teams
In 2012, Google launched a monumental internal project with the code name ‘Project Aristotle’. Its mission was to discover the formula for high-performance teams. The project’s topic has long been a focus of business and management studies. In fact, high-performance...
What does the future of leadership look like post-pandemic?
How do we define leadership in a post-pandemic world? We know there has been a significant shift in workplace culture globally, with the COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly catalysing rapid transformation in how we lead our people (and how they want to be led). The...
How situational leadership will help you lead a more engaged team
First up, if you’re still leading your team with the same principles as you were in 2019, you need to read this. There’s no doubt the pandemic changed what leadership needs to be. We all went from primarily face-to-face teams to being 100% online and now to a hybrid...
How training for business savvy can be more meaningful than business acumen
Whether you’re a leader or an individual contributor in a large organisation, mastering your current role and having business savvy will give you a clear picture of the different functions in an organisation. It will also allow you to create an understanding of your...
How a democratic leadership style is needed in a time of change
The world of work has changed and there will be no going back to “business as usual”. COVID-19 propelled work from home and now employees are willing to leave an organisation if they are forced back into full time work. These changes, while accelerated by the global...
Sales Agility: the key to virtual selling?
The last 2 years have seen an acceleration of digital transformation, driven by COVID lock downs and the need for remote working. No line of business has been unaffected, and the sales function, with its previous reliance on building relationships via face-to-face...
How Do Adults Learn? Why Serious Games are smart Andragogy.
So you’ve carried out your capability analysis, aligned your learning with your business outcomes and you're ready to design your learning, but you know your current e-learning may not be cutting it. Low learner engagement is still a big challenge for L&D teams....
What is all this talk about Neuroplasticity?
As time and technology have progressed, humans have developed an increasingly sophisticated understanding of the world and universe around them; why the sky is blue, how ecosystems work, even mapping out far regions of the universe. So why is it that we have such...
Business savvy, not just business acumen
During my career, first in finance, then as an Executive Coach, Challenger Advisor and Consultant in my own businesses, I’ve coached and worked firsthand with sellers and executives around the world. Despite the varying engagements, I’ve noticed a common challenge...
You’ve got to get a little bit emotional to transform behaviour
Learning and Development in the modern age is more than just ticking boxes. It’s about truly engaging your learners and driving a change in their behaviour. That’s why it can be so disheartening after going through so much effort to design and deliver engaging courses...
What is all the fuss about Gamification and Game-Based Learning?
The workplace has undergone swift and drastic change since the pandemic began. At first it was a scramble just trying to get things done and figure out how we work from home or in hybrid environments. Some time has passed, and this is now the new normal, so how do we...