For working parents, it’s a noisy world of opinion and expectation. Friends, family and social media all offer advice that seems credible, but can be contradictory, outdated or unhelpful. Plus there’s that shrill inner voice telling you you’re failing on all fronts…
What if you knew how to turn down the volume and tune into your best thinking? What if you had the tools to ensure your precious reserves of energy were focused on the things that count the most?
Finding your own way to balance the equation of loving your children and your career without losing yourself along the way has never been more important.
In this warm and authentic guide, Georgie Rudd, an accredited executive coach to hundreds of brilliant leaders with the equally demanding job of parenting, puts the power of coaching into the hands of all working parents.
- Practical, easy-to-use diagnostic tools.
- Deep, pragmatic understanding of the real world of corporate work.
- Honest stories highlighting what every parent finds hard and what to do about it.
The Working Parent Equation helps you get clear on what success looks like for you, and gives you the resources to achieve it, sustainably.
Whether you’re making the pivotal return to work after parental leave or your challenging teen is making you doubt yourself, whether you’re talking yourself out of a promotion you really want to pursue or you’re trying to protect your non-negotiables at home, this book has your back.
Right now, the chances are that the world is changing faster than your organization. And it won’t be slowing down any time soon.
If your organization is stuck in the old model of change – unfreeze, move, refreeze – sooner or later you’ll fall so far behind that you fall over. Instead of relying solely on change management skills, what you also need now is Adaptability Intelligence. When you move your people from fear of change to freedom to change, you set them up for higher productivity, better leadership and transformational change – forever.
Those who are more adaptable don’t just bounce back from adversity, they bounce higher, able to see any change as the chance to make a difference to others and to challenge themselves. They have the confidence to face an uncertain future knowing that they’re ready to make the most of whatever happens next.
When everything changes, all the time, adaptability is the only future-proof skill, and the one that unlocks all the others.
Rich Alderton has been leading change for over 25 years, in roles that have included head of a billion-dollar supply chain, regional CEO of a global No.1, and board member of a listed company. He now runs a leadership development practice, with a diverse client list that ranges from agritech start-ups in NZ to the UK’s NHS.
What if most leaders are making their job much harder than it needs to be? Nobody asked you to hold every answer, control every outcome or take the weight alone. It’s exhausting, and it doesn’t even work.
In this engaging leadership fable, CEO Richard Mansfield discovers that every relationship his leadership depends on – his CHRO, his CFO, his executive team, his Chair, his investor – runs on a contract he wrote in his head and never showed to anyone. With the help of his coach, Nigel, he learns to make the implicit explicit – one relationship at a time. It is uncomfortable. It is also, as Nigel promises, simple.
This is a book for anyone who sits on an executive team, as every senior leader must pay attention to this specific, practical mechanism of contracting. Honest conversation is not a soft skill sitting alongside performance; it is the mechanism that produces it.
Discover: – Reflective questions at the end of each chapter to help you apply the ideas to your own team. – Three practical frameworks you can apply immediately: the relationship map, contracting, and observation-based feedback. – VECTRA, a diagnostic model for reading an executive team as a system.
If you’re a solopreneur, coach, consultant, practitioner or creative who cares deeply about people, and the planet, but also want your work to sustain you emotionally and financially, this is for you.
Much of the traditional advice on building a business comes from industrial, corporate blueprints never designed for solopreneurs. It’s hardly surprising it doesn’t work in the new world of work, or that it leaves thoughtful entrepreneurs feeling not just frustrated but compromised and complicit.
There is another way. By reframing how we think about growth, productivity and success, we can embrace an alternative model of business that is relational, regenerative and liberatory. We can build thriving businesses on our own terms, businesses that advance social justice while still putting food on our tables, that transform extractive systems into forces of regeneration and hope.
This is the future of business for good.
Marisa Guthrie is a business coach, entrepreneur and teacher with 30 years’ experience helping solopreneurs design ethical, sustainable businesses. The former CEO of a health charity and the managing director of a cross-party think tank advocating social policy, she has consulted on policy for the Green Party and an All-Party Parliamentary Group on micro-business.
Who ate your mojo?
If you’re exhausted just looking at your ‘to do’ list, if you feel time disappears in a flash, if you’re running as fast as you can just to keep up – this is for you.
In this latest Change Ninja adventure you’ll take on the Mojo-eating Zombies. You’ll learn to recognize the characteristic traits of each time- or energy-zapping Zombie, what their weaknesses are, and how to counter their superpowers with a new set of tools and approaches. Every time you overcome a Zombie you win back a little more time and a lot more energy. And with a little more time and a lot more energy you’ll find you can get through a lot of things more effectively, which gives you back even more time and energy, together with the motivation to do things differently.
Think you don’t have time to read another book or practise new ways of doing things? You don’t really have time not to.
Resonance is for anyone who understands that a narrow focus on the traditional leadership skills of analysis, strategy and execution is no longer sufficient, and wants to understand how to take their leadership to a whole new level.
Our increasingly polarized world, where business, technology and the geopolitical landscape are moving at breathtaking speeds and burnout is at an all-time high, demands a new kind of leader, one who understands that strategic advantage depends on the one resource that hasn’t kept up with the pace of change: the human nervous system.
They want to learn how to steady their own system and that of others, for clearer thinking, bolder innovation and better decisions under pressure. Resonance helps leaders build neural intelligence by combining neuroscience, whole-body awareness and leadership development into clear, practical actions. It features examples drawn from high-stakes environments, a downloadable toolkit and guidance for coaches and leadership development professionals.
Because people do their best work when they feel safe, seen and resourced.
The leadership blueprint for better schools.
In schools across the world, leaders are navigating unprecedented complexity while striving to create communities where both students and staff can thrive.
Grounded in the experiences of real schools and real leaders and with practical action steps and clear guidance throughout, this book presents a compelling and accessible framework for leading any educational organization with purpose. At its core is a simple yet transformative leadership ecosystem that helps leaders make sense of competing demands and focus on what matters most.
Whether you are an experienced principal, an aspiring leader or part of a leadership team, this book will inspire you to lead with greater purpose, align your efforts more effectively, and create the conditions for meaningful and enduring success.
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Designed to help you transform your school over 12 months
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Features real stories drawn from schools across US, UK, Europe and Asia
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Combines research-informed insights and practical exercises.
Dr. Zachary Walker is an educator, scholar and leader who has spent over 25 years working with schools across 45 countries, advancing leadership practice, educational improvement and thriving learning communities through research-informed practical insight.
Why do bold ideas die inside well-managed companies, and how can leaders create the right conditions for them to thrive?
Paradox seems inescapable when it comes to organizational innovation, especially in high-stakes sectors. How do leaders navigate freedom and structure, risk and responsibility, collaboration and solitude, originality and incremental improvement to turn ideas into impact?
Drawing on 15 years of cross-industry experience, Abdelmoula El Hadi blends neuroscience, psychology, and real-world case studies from manufacturing, engineering and industrial technology. His IDEA Flow framework is a practical tool for navigating these paradoxes at the heart of creativity, allowing you to reliably spark creativity under pressure, nurture it in complex systems, and turn it into meaningful results.
This is not a book about flashy brainstorming or startup clichés. It’s a guide for leaders in high-stakes (and heavy) industries who need innovation that actually works in practice. With real-world stories, reflective questions and practical tools, it equips you to design creativity into your operating culture.
Abdelmoula El Hadi is an internationally recognized innovation leader and Head of Innovation at Knauf Insulation. With 15 years of cross-industry experience, he helps organizations spark creativity under constraints.
The ultimate sales leader playbook
Sales is the lifeblood of every organisation, and more than ever we need strong, capable, humble, authentic and inclusive commercial leaders who know how to get the best out of their sales teams.
You were at the top of your game as a sales person. But now you’re a sales leader, and getting results through a high-performing sales team is a different game. There are so many different hats you need to wear: Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Team Motivator, Chief Value Storyteller…
Discover a simple, powerful framework to help you make that transition, mastering each critical area of sales leadership step by step. Easy to read and packed with real-life examples, tips and coaching questions you can use today, together with downloadable tools and templates, this is the essential guide to success in what can be one of the toughest, loneliest jobs in business.
Amanda Downs is Director of Commercial Leadership at The Uspire Group and Founding Director of her private coaching practice, Sales Growth Expert. A sales leadership capability expert, she brings decades of hands-on management, training and coaching wisdom to her sales leader clients globally.
In a world where customers have more influence than ever, it has never been more important to put customers at the centre of your business.
CMOs know this: 73% of them agree customer centricity is critical. Yet only 14% of CMOs think their company is successful at putting customers at the heart of everything they do. Why the gap?
The problem is not lack of desire or customer understanding. The reality is that we are actually TOO obsessed with understanding customers. We are four times more knowledgeable about how customers make decisions than we are about how our own businesses make them.
Great customer understanding alone isn’t enough; what truly matters is whether decision makers frequently think about customers. Customer Salience is the one thing that matters in delivering customer-centric culture change.
Paul Hudson has been working to improve customer focus with brands globally for 25 years, and in Customer Salience he gives you the tools you need to embed customer-focused decision making. Discover:
- the one thing you need to focus on to deliver customer centricity
- practical steps that you can take to improve decision-making in your organization
- the Customer Salience toolkit, to help you get started today
- an online community for support and advice.
