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 Do I Know If I Need an Executive Coach?
Almost every executive who has hired me to coach someone on their team has ended up realizing they needed the coaching themselves. Every time. You’re performing at a high level. Your team respects you...
Why Executive Presence Needs a Rethink
I have been noticing, across articles, podcasts, LinkedIn discussions, and professional forums, a growing number of people questioning the concept of "Executive Presence." While traditionally defined as a combination...
Why the Leader's Brain is the Bottleneck No One Talks About
In my previous articles, we explored why productivity stalled long before artificial intelligence arrived, why psychological safety is widely discussed but rarely designed into organisational systems, and why...
The 28-Day Neuro-Reset for New Managers
Your first management role is a fast identity shift: your job is no longer doing great work, it’s getting great work done through others. If you’re excited, anxious, or both, this 28-day plan will help you...
Why the Most Effective Leaders Stop Trying to Be Strong and What Physics Has to Do With It
We have built leadership cultures that reward certainty and punish doubt. That celebrates the polished answer and quietly shames the honest question. We have told ourselves, and each other that to lead well is...
The Future of Leadership is Human and Why Self-Aware Leaders Win
Forget charisma. Forget hustle. The most powerful skill a leader can build right now isn’t in a textbook. It’s self-awareness. The old playbook rewarded control, output, and technical smarts. Today’s world moves...
Your Team Feels You Before They Hear You and Here’s Why It Matters
After 25 years at sea, navigating some of the most unpredictable conditions on the planet, I learned a lesson about leadership that no textbook ever taught me. It wasn’t strategy, it wasn’t experience, and it certainly...
5 Strategies to Reduce Stress and Unlock Team Performance
Let’s be honest: work can be stressful. Tight deadlines, shifting priorities, and complex personality dynamics can quickly create a sense of overwhelm. And as a leader, you’re not just managing your...
Why Organisational Culture Cannot Be Forced
Most organisations don’t struggle to define the culture they want. They struggle to understand the culture they already have.
How Collaboration by Design Creates Team Structures People Love to Work In
For a long time, we treated collaboration like it was a personality trait. Hire people who seem cooperative, put them in meetings together, and assume teamwork will happen. It rarely does.
How We Built a Workplace of Genuine Trust, Belonging and High Performance
Over a cup of tea recently, one of my former staff said to me, “We created the dream, a workplace where we could be real with each other and genuinely support each other.” Twelve years ago, I...
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...
