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Insights are where we explore the latest learnings from the fields of organisational, leadership, and neuroscience studies and what they mean for leaders today. Get curious and come explore “next practice” with us.

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…

Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development

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…

Dr. Natasha Budd & Tina Biro
Insights, Leadership

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…

Gretel Bakker & Dr. Hayley Linthwaite
Insights, Leadership

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…

Gretel Bakker
Insights, Leadership

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…

Dr. Chris Rowell & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Insights, Leadership

Change Environments: Immunity to Change and New Years Resolutions

Did you know that up to 50% of New Years Resolutions fail? Change is hard. And yet our lives are filled with change. Even if we try our best to keep things the same, the inevitable march of aging, relationship…

Marcus de Courtenay
Insights, Leadership

Are You Coping or Recharging in Troubled Times? The Answer Might Surprise You

As the end of the year approaches, for many of us the workplace is getting more intense. This, coupled with a precarious market environment, means one thing: stress. In trying to manage the competing demands placed on you, we think…

Marcus de Courtenay
Insights, Leadership

Emotional Intelligence in New Contexts

Leadership Primer: EI in New Contexts “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.” Eric Jensen Developing our Emotional Intelligence can change both our own life and all those who come into contact…

Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Insights, Leadership, Leadership skills, Primers

The Accountability Agreement

A question we often hear from our clients is: how do I keep my team accountable? At first glance, it seems simple – their role involves a task or a goal, and they should take responsibility for completing it. But…

Dr. Chris Rowell & Marcus de Courtenay
Insights, Leadership

Why Reflection, Recognition, and Celebration Energise a Workplace

It’s estimated that the average person spends a third of their lives (90,000 hrs) at work. If you subtract the time spent sleeping, this amounts to a significant portion of our ‘awake’ time. For most people, work is their dominant…

Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Insights, Leadership

Levers of Influence

“Leadership is influence.” – John C. Maxwell What Influences You? As Dan Pink reminds us, 40% of a leader’s job today is influencing. Given that in contemporary complex, interconnected organisations, we can’t get anything done by ourselves, one could argue…

Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Chris Rowell
Insights, Leadership

Responsibility, Accountability and Leadership

“The price of greatness is responsibility.” – Winston Churchill  There’s no doubt that greatness and responsibility are inextricably interlinked. But responsibility is often connected with another concept. Business thinkers can use the words ‘responsibility’ and ‘accountability’ almost interchangeably. Either that…

Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership