The beginning of the leadership journey is defining clearly who you are, what you stand for and what your deepest values are.
The smart way to choose your values
The Power of Growth Values The process of personal development is about overcoming our subconscious programming and conditioned responses and living from consciously chosen values that help us grow. Growth values, which pull us in the direction of our conscious or...
Why we can’t transform without self-compassion
The Inner Judge One of the greatest obstacles of personal growth is the ‘inner judge’ in our mind: a voice of self-criticism that constantly influences our life through opinions, advice, warnings, suggestions, beliefs, evaluations, and admonishments about all aspects...
How Our ‘Fast Brain’ Hijacks Our Personal Development
Explore how transitioning from reactive to reflective leadership enhances strategic thinking, fosters innovation, and drives sustainable success in the modern workplace.
Why we can’t shame ourselves into changing
Becoming a transformational leader requires that we transform ourselves. So how do we do that fundamentally and sustainably? Unfortunately, every leader I’ve ever worked with uses self-shame as the most common tool for self-improvement. But this actually does more...
4 Key Elements To Create Team Psychological Safety
Harvard organisational behavioural scientist Amy Edmondson first introduced the construct of ‘team psychological safety’, which she defined as a ‘shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking’.
How to give conscious feedback
My very first 360° assessment group feedback session with a leader and his team was a steep learning experience. In these group feedback sessions, our job is to help maintain psychological safety in the room in various ways. But given this was my first time, some...
Transform Your Leadership By Resolving Your Shadow
Carl Jung famously said, ‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ Mindfulness is how we ‘make the unconscious conscious’. The impact our unconscious programming has on our behaviour cannot be overestimated....
How To Receive Feedback With a Growth Mindset
The Leadership Practices Inventory 360° created by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner is an assessment tool to measure leadership effectiveness. Team members are asked to rank their leaders on 30 behavioural statements. Of the 30, the worst scoring one of all is, ‘Asks for...
Owning your organisational shadow
Owning your organisational shadow Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern western psychology, spoke of the ‘shadow’ in relation to our capacity to hide from ourselves and deny our own behaviours, thoughts, feelings and beliefs. We keep them in the shadow of our...
