When leaders act authentically, practise what they profess and do what they say they’ll do, we’re more likely to trust, respect and want to connect with them. Authentic leaders don’t mask their true selves, they’re open, honest and genuine, act with integrity, live their values and speak their truth.

Great leaders act like cultural umbrellas. They shelter teams from adverse influences, keeping them protected, supported, safe and behaviourally sound and secure. Under their umbrella, people know their purpose and can perform at their peak. Optimally, a leader’s cultural umbrella keeps people united beneath common cultural beliefs, ground-rules, rituals and values that guide how they behave and perform. Without that kind of shielding and protection, cultures can quickly stray off-course…

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Talea is tense a lot of the time.

To thrive in this post-COVID global reset – where conducting business will probably never return to the way things were pre-COVID – workplaces, more than ever, need leaders with new mindsets who practice a rebranded 3-Rs – they need to be Resilient, Responsive and Ready…

Resilience is critical to effective leadership. How can we develop resilience and stay motivated in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change? Here’s 3R’s leaders need to know about to keep resilience reservoirs topped-up in themselves and their teams…

Whatever the catalyst, trauma can keep triggering distressing reactions. Re-grounding routines are simple ways to help you be more trauma-resistant…

Trauma can happen slowly. Or suddenly, in seconds. But its effects can last much longer. Whether a critical incident, accident, natural disaster or any number of workplace woes we find overwhelming, trauma can keep on triggering distressing physical, emotional and mental reactions that play havoc with our nervous system, make life hard-going, our behaviour erratic and our relationships very difficult to manage.

How people talk to each other is one of the most visible aspects of any culture, and a good predictor of how functional or dysfunctional a culture is likely to be. Cultivating conversational capability to enable people to talk over and unpack their culture is one of the most powerful tools forward-thinking leaders can wield.