Performance Frontiers

Leveraging Micro-Coaching for Busy Leaders

Learning development design and practices have changed. There’s not only a significant mindset shift towards continuous learning, and a slew of new technologies to assist with that, but our preference in “how” we learn is also evolving. Think: gamification, immersion...

Unlocking Potential: Bridging the Gap Between Performance and Possibility 

Do you have a team with potential that just isn’t quite reaching its stride? You see glimpses of brilliance, but something is holding them back. If your team is not performing optimally, how do you bridge the gap between their...

How does your organisation promote collaborative relationships? 

Contrary to what some believe, collaboration is not just an activity we do. In organisations, collaboration means a number of dimensions aligning in a productive and valuable way. Specifically, we like to talk about three elements to collaboration:  When we...

What is Collaboration?

Leadership Primer: What is Collaboration? Companies that prioritise collaboration are five times more likely to have a considerable increase in employment, and twice as likely to be profitable and outgrow their competitors. Read or listen to our leadership primer, which...

Collaboration in Today’s Work Context

“None of us is as smart as all of us.” Ken Blanchard The ability to collaborate is considered a key leadership attribute in contemporary workplaces. It is our proven best ally in a world that constantly serves up complex and...

Adaptive Leadership: Thriving in Complexity

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”– Charles Darwin Our world is a complex, unpredictable ecosystem, teeming with interwoven networks—natural and man-made—that...

Faciliative Leadership: The Art of Holding Space for Transformation 

Over the many years of working in the field of transformation, I have formed the opinion that facilitative leadership is not just a skill, it’s an art, a way of being, and a constant act of self-awareness, self-regulation, and attuning...

Leading Under Pressure to Avoid Threat Rigidity

“Every leader is at a different level for their window of tolerance for things like change, pressure, stress, complexity and uncertainty… When they get thrown outside their window of tolerance, that’s when their executive functioning goes out the window. And...

Upskilling for the Future: Anticipating Industry Changes 

“… Future Skills [are] precisely those abilities that allow individuals either to shape, or to regain the ability to shape, their own lives and individual social contexts in a world of constant change and in future emergent—i.e., unpredictable—and rapidly changing situations.“ ...