Leadership: Culture building
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Leadership struggles: DEI, career transitions, and cross-functional influence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Communication
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Identity & self-belief
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- Inclusive culture and exclusion are not opposites — reframe around energy, not behaviour.
- Leaders chasing a new role are chasing a feeling; name the feeling first.
- You can hold your people values and still speak the numbers person's language.
Bittersweet leadership: embracing sorrow to lead more fully
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Management
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Identity & self-belief
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- Suppressing sorrow at work cuts off your strongest bridge to connection.
- Leaders with personal power can access sadness — not just anger.
- Writing your true feelings improves health, relationships, and job prospects.
How white leaders can actively support women of color at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Management
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- Over 70% of women of color say their manager isn't invested in their success.
- Calling yourself an ally means nothing without concrete, visible action.
- White men — not white women — were behind most pivotal career sponsorships.
How to build an extraordinary workplace using psychology and science
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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- Perks attract talent but only three psychological needs keep people engaged
- In-person interviews are unreliable — job-relevant auditions predict performance better
- Culture is shaped by what leaders reward, not what they say they value
Uniting a global multi-company team to build the F-35 fighter jet
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
9
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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- Competitors forced to collaborate: how a shared identity replaced company loyalty
- Best-athlete hiring put rival-company staff in the most senior roles
- 120 new hires per week — and why the GM addressed every single cohort
Building belonging and psychological safety in remote and hybrid teams
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Remote teams
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Management
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- Hybrid fails when leaders impose rigid schedules to preserve power.
- Psychological safety has three levels — and innovation requires climbing all three.
- Silent brainstorming outperforms group brainstorming for diverse, high-quality ideas.
Avoiding oblivious leadership: strategies from Robert Sutton's Friction Project
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Culture building
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- Power structurally isolates leaders from the friction they create.
- Talk less, ask more — measure your question-to-statement ratio.
- Walking out of the room beats walking around it.
Leading through continuous change: a digital transformation framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Vision & mission
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Culture building
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- Fear of disruption alone never drives real organisational change.
- A North Star impact answers why — not just what — to transform.
- Cascading up: teams propose their own contribution, leadership agrees.
Vulnerable leadership: combining emotional openness with decisive action
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Culture building
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Identity & self-belief
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- Vulnerability without a forward action step actively undermines leadership.
- Leaders are implicitly dependent on their teams — almost no one says it aloud.
- Life will eventually force vulnerability; build the tools before the crisis hits.
Using the Enneagram to build self-awareness and lead better
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Culture building
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Identity & self-belief
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- Self-awareness, not charisma or vision, is what top CEOs share
- Nine personality types, each driven by a distinct unconscious motivation
- Knowing your team's types cuts friction and prevents years of avoidable mistakes
How innovators get traction inside large organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Long-term planning
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Processes & SOPs
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- CEOs praise innovation while rewarding middle managers for quarterly revenue
- Find early adopter leaders first — ignore detractors until you have a win
- Relatable internal success stories beat any slide deck citing Google or Amazon
How to find and build a library of leadership stories
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
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Culture building
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- Leaders have stories already — they just lack a system to find them.
- Telling the right stories creates the culture that generates more of them.
- Name every story you own; a title turns memory into a retrievable asset.
How managers shape employee wellbeing across all five life domains
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Culture building
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- Your job and manager predict life satisfaction more than anything else.
- Engaged employees get four times more positive feedback than disengaged ones.
- Transparent pay conversations outperform above-market pay with silence.
How great teams find purpose by picking the right fight
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
10
Vision & mission
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Motivation
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- Fighting rivals demoralises your team and motivates competitors instead
- Three fight types — revolutionary, underdog, ally — bond teams around real stakes
- Alcoa went from $3B to $27B by rallying everyone around zero accidents
Four phrases that help others feel seen and heard
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
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Culture building
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- Saying "I don't know" makes leaders more credible, not less
- Resist fixing — asking "tell me more" builds real confidence
- Curiosity toward what frightens you replaces caricature with person