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    How to Be Better at Influencing Others

    in Coaching, Communication, Entrepreneur, Executive, Leadership, Mindset, Success / / 0 comments

    Your ability to lead, motivate and inspire is dependent on how effectively you influence. Influence is one of the most powerful skills you can have. It can impact your career opportunities and success, personal as well as business relationships, and ultimately, your financial rewards. If that isn’t enough to peak your interest then perhaps nothing will! Like many other leadership

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    Show Off Your Authentic Self

    in Communication, Entrepreneur, Leadership, Mindset, Success / / 0 comments

    We’ve talked about authenticity before. Authenticity is not a new concept in business and is now recognised as an essential strength for successful leaders. But why? Let’s talk about the reasons authenticity is beneficial to leaders as well as the teams they steer. Authenticity is all about knowing who you are, what you believe in, and staying faithful and true

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    How to Get Past a Failure

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    You know that sinking empty feeling that follows failure? It feels terrible, doesn’t it? Failure can be followed by all kinds of negative emotions, but sooner or later, it has to be let go. When the feelings of failure has passed, you will be left with a space. A space just big enough for a small ember of hope; space ready to be filled

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    Resilience

    in Entrepreneur, Mindset, Productivity, Strategy, Success / / 0 comments

    Resilience can be one of those words, tossed around in conversations with only a vague concept of its relevance or appropriateness within the discussion. More often than not, it is misused in the corporate sector and if you ask, people can’t really tell you what it means. Many think it is the responsibility of others or something which requires the

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    Challenges With the Leadership Pipeline

    The difficulties for women to “break through the glass ceiling” and the perpetual inequality in pay and positions of power within organisations is still a major topic of discussion. Even with the awareness of these issues, and the push for more support equality in pay and position, the problem of an insignificant number of women in leadership roles persists. Many

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    The 4 Stages of Building a Peak Performance Team

    in Entrepreneur, Leadership, Productivity, Small Business, Strategy, Success, Team / / 0 comments

    Great teams don’t happen by accident. They form gradually over time, with the clever guidance of a great leader. As a leader, you can influence your team’s performance from the moment it first comes together. Think peak performance. When you understand what stage of development your team is at, you will know exactly what to offer in terms of guidance

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    Where are all the Women?

    Despite knowing that businesses who have women in senior leadership roles are more profitable and sustainable in the longer term, the latest statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that women are still not making it to the top in any great numbers. In fact, only 17% of all CEOs are women. This not only highlights the imbalance

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    Why Executives Absolutely Need Coaching

    in Coaching, Executive, Leadership, Strategy, Success / / 2 comments

    You’ve no doubt heard the saying ‘If you’re not learning you’re dying’, and this is just as true for high level executives on top of their game and reaching for the stars as it is for young people learning their craft from the bottom up. Just because you’ve made it to executive level doesn’t mean your learning is over and

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    3 Reasons Fear Makes You a Good Leader

    in Communication, Leadership, Mindset, Strategy, Success, Team / / 0 comments

    The pressure to be a strong and confident leader, especially as a female, is heavy enough to bear, but, fear can cripple us if we let it. Fear is something we all face from time to time. Not the fear of leaping from a plane, or being confronted by a big scary spider! It’s a different sort of fear; the

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    Who is in Your Support Network?

    in Communication, Strategy, Success, Team / / 0 comments

    As a leader, the one thing that is crucial to your success is having a strong support network. Many people feel that they have to do everything to be at the top of their game but in fact, the opposite is true. By creating a strong support network around you, it allows you to ensure that your success remains on

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