An organisation can spend millions of dollars training its leaders in horizontal skills and knowledge, but it’s a poor investment unless it’s preceded and supported by vertical growth.
Why Leadership Training Fails
While improving horizontal competencies may require repeated practice, it typically requires no growth in self-awareness or self-regulation.
How to Stop Triangulation In the Workplace
Many leaders don’t realize that letting conflicts circulate quietly shifts accountability—and trust erodes until clarity is restored.
The Growth Matrix: A Practical Model for Personal Change
The Growth Matrix explains why skills alone don’t change behaviour. It shows how vertical growth and self-awareness help leaders move from reactive habits to values-based action, driving sustainable change.
Why Accountability Fails (And What Leaders Must Do Instead)
Great leaders know they must take accountability for their behaviour. However, many leaders can miss the fact that there are two sides of accountability.
How to Turn Values on the Wall Into Behaviour on the Floor
Values are statements of our highest cultural aspirations. However, for organisational values to be truly meaningful, they must be translated into observable behavioural commitments.
How Great Leaders Deal with Strong Emotions
Reacting to our emotions puts us in a state where we are neither thinking clearly nor acting consciously. With self-awareness, we can access a calmer, more conscious state while completely accepting our emotions.
Why Self-Awareness Training is Vital for Great Leadership
Developing as a leader is about cultivating our inner strength to stay true under fire, to ask questions we don’t know the answer to, to stay balanced when our world is turning upside down, to stay kind and respectful when the heat of anger and frustration are...
Why Our Values Must Be Backed by Action
The basis of leadership is trust. In his book The Speed of Trust, Stephen M. R. Covey explains, ‘Trust always affects two measurable outcomes: speed and cost. When trust goes down, speed goes down and cost goes up. This creates a trust tax. When trust goes up, speed...
How Values Keep Us On Track As Leaders
In their book The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner explain that, ‘Leadership begins with a belief in yourself and continues only if other people believe in you.’ To believe in you, people have to know (1) who you are and what you stand for, and (2)...
