Building teams
Successful leadership involves building cohesive and high-performing teams. Our contributors provide strategies for team building, including fostering collaboration and promoting a positive team culture. Learn how to identify and leverage individual strengths, resolve conflicts, and maintain team morale.
How to Introduce AI Into a Small Business Without Scaring Your Team
You know AI could transform your business. You have read the case studies, seen the potential, and understand that staying competitive in 2026 means embracing these tools. But every time you think about...
Why Leadership Accountability is a Four-Letter Word Called CARE
What’s the difference between a high-performing team unraveling after a change in leadership and a struggling organization making a comeback under new leadership? The difference comes down to leadership...
Intentional Connection – The Practice of Showing Up for Others
Creating conditions for others to thrive requires more than good intentions or generic support. It requires genuinely understanding who they are, what they need, and how they work best.
The Cost of Carrying Too Much – Why Senior Leaders Absorb What They Should Architect
There is a predictable shift that happens as leaders rise. Early success is built through effort. You step in. You decide. You carry what others cannot yet hold. Progress accelerates because...
The Leadership Ripple – How Your Energy, Decisions, and Habits Shape Your Team
Leadership is often measured by outcomes, performance, targets, delivery, and growth. But outcomes are never the starting point. They are the result of something deeper and less visible...
From Shedding to Stepping Forward – Leadership Lessons from the Year of the Snake and the Year of the Horse
This year is the year of the snake. Not as a symbol of loss or failure, but of shedding what no longer fits. For a long time, I believed leadership meant pushing forward, through exhaustion, through illness...
Corporate Culture – How We Co-Create a Healthy Culture in Organisations
In a world defined by constant transformation, hybrid workforces, rapid technological advances, shifting generational expectations, and global competition, organisations are recognising that culture is not...
Why Every Hospital Must Adopt Memory Care Training – A Call to Protect Our Patients and Our Staff
Dementia care is no longer confined to memory care units. It is present in every hospital department, and too often, staff are left without the practical training needed to communicate, de-escalate, and...
How to Build Trust in the Workplace
Trust is often framed in terms of integrity. However, integrity alone does not create trust. Trust is also shaped by relationships and the culture people experience day to day. When work becomes overly...
What Leadership Development Really Means (Hint – It’s Not About Titles)
Leadership development is often misunderstood. In many organizations, it’s tied to promotions, certifications, formal programs, or high-profile projects. While those experiences can be valuable, they only...
Safety – The Foundation of Every High-Performing Workplace Even if No One Talks About It
Most organizations want the same things: better communication, stronger performance, fewer mistakes, and teams that actually work well together. The irony? All of those goals depend on...
Commit to Yourself – Building the Most Powerful Relationship to Lead with Growth, Presence, and Grace
Promise yourself a powerful relationship because it’s the most important bond you’ll ever forge. Leadership isn’t just about power, it’s about presence. For women, especially, leadership is an act of...
How Safe Leadership Damages Teams
If you’ve ever walked into a workplace that looks organized but feels like a funeral, you've met the silent killer of modern teams: safe leadership. Not safety as in lockout tags and PPE, that stuff saves lives.
From Energy to Execution – How to Operationalize the 5E Framework in Your Team
We’ve all felt it, that post-retreat high. Your team leaves a strategy session buzzing with new ideas, commitments, and a sense of possibility. But by Tuesday, the energy that filled the room has vanished...
Lead From Within – How High Performers Use Fitness to Elevate Their Leadership
What if your greatest leadership advantage isn’t your title, experience, or strategy but your self-discipline? Many leaders chase productivity systems and mental frameworks, yet overlook the physical...
