A leadership philosophy is a set of core values, beliefs, and principles that guide and inform how you lead. It’s the foundation from which you make decisions, take actions, and develop your own unique style of leadership. How do you create one?
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In the face of a challenging business environment, many business owners feel a sense of uncertainty. It’s difficult for business leaders to make decisions that will ensure future profits and growth and retention of market share. Here are some tips on how you can stay competitive and thrive in a challenging market.
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Disruptive strategy, first introduced at Harvard Business School in the 1990s, is a concept that has had a significant impact on the business world. The idea behind disruptive strategy is that companies can achieve success by targeting and serving overlooked or underserved segments of the market, rather than competing directly with established players. 
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Succession planning is a crucial strategy for businesses and organisations to ensure future stability and continued success. Good succession planning can help protect your organisation against the risks of turnover, ensuring that it has access to the right talent, with the right skills at the right time. 
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Working remotely is becoming more and more popular among businesses that want to attract the best talent from across the world. How do you ensure you build a strong culture if all your employees are miles apart? How do you get the Leadership Team to be consistent remotely? Can you deliver a remote work culture?.
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Will 2023 be known for leaders as the year long battle for creating, and maintaining, momentum? Over the break, and since returning to the ‘desk’, I’ve been thinking about what challenges leaders and businesses could face in 2023. Fair to say, this list was long, exhaustive and lacked a sense of relevance if I’m honest.  So, I reframed my thinking.
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The challenges of rising inflation, low unemployment, the Reserve bank increasing the OCR and the flow to interest rates are increasing the ripples through many business owners and businesses. What will 2023 bring, and what type of recessionary environment might be looming?
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We see and hear it quite often: the call for a leader to show themselves. Unfortunately, we are seeing a lot of leaders choosing to ignore that call and not ‘getting’ the fact that they’re leaders. Instead, they hide behind their processes, with their head in the sand.
Do you look around for the hero to arrive, or will you step up?
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Currently, there is a lot of media about the negative impacts of all the change that is occurring in the world. Although change can be exhausting and feel relentless, in fact from a business point of view, there are often many positive aspects that ultimately are driven by such change.
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Directors are mandated to work in a company’s best interests and to ensure (among other things) that the entity is purposeful, successful, compliant, safe and future focused. As a company evolves and grows it will need access to different advice at various times in order to mitigate risk or to manage/navigate complexity. 
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Leaders are now being faced with the challenge of clashing cultures, opposing beliefs and people who can become offended easily. Often navigating the conversations coupled with these areas can be the undoing of a great team and also a significant strain on leadership.
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In most client sessions, whether it be a board of directors, senior executive team or one on one coaching the following questions tend to be asked “What are you seeing with the other companies you work with?” or “how are others dealing with this situation?”.
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1:1’s, catch ups, reviews, there are numerous terms we are now using to interact with our people and teams in order to check-in on their engagement. But have we have lost the art of truly understanding the importance of these interactions and how we get the most from them.
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A recent study surveyed 300 directors and found that 75% of their respondents said they recognised climate change as being very important to their companies’ strategic success. However, a 2018 survey found that only 31% of 600 large, publicly-traded U.S. companies had board oversight of sustainability. 
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Often leaders will end up in positions in which they are not the expert in certain fields anymore... becoming a leader without ‘specific’ expertise. They might have led specific teams achieving great things in the past, however have taken the step to leading other leaders who in turn lead their own team of experts or who are thought leaders in their respective field.
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