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Carla Miller in Leadership Excellence

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‘We are trying to succeed in a working culture that was designed for men, by men, and as a result, only one in five women feel a strong sense of belonging in the workplace.’

Carla Miller, author of Closing the Influence Gap, is featured in the Leadership Excellence speaking about how to get your voice heard as a female leader

Helping Women To Close The Influence Gap

Women leaders across the globe are experiencing the Influence Gap and this is a systemic problem, not a problem with women. We hold fewer positions of power and so it is harder for us to get a seat at the table for the discussions and decisions that matter.

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Joy Burnford in Dialogue

‘We need leaders who take action to progress gender equality, who role-model inclusive behaviour and create the level playing-field needed to retain women and create a better culture for all.’

Joy Burnford, author of Don’t Fix Women, is featured in Dialogue speaking about why organizations need to consider the needs of women at all life stages if they are to improve talent retention and close gender pay gaps.

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Becky Hall on welldoing.org

‘If ambition is making you compare yourself with others, tune into perfectionist thinking or giving a vehicle to think about your failings, then it may just be time to turn your ambition on its head, and focus on how you can achieve enough to make you happy.’

Becky Hall, author of The Art of Enough, is featured on welldoing.org talking about healthy ambition and assessing when enough is enough.

Enough is Enough: Is Your Ambition Making you Happy?

Does ambition motivate you, or is it just another way to beat yourself up for not being where you ‘should’ be? Coach Becky Hall breaks down healthy ambition and assessing when enough is enough We have coaches to support you with your goals – contact them here We’re so often encouraged to set clear intentions and to know what we want, but ambition can be complex.

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Cath Bishop in The Guardian

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‘…we should be asking what is going wrong in high-performance sport? What could we do differently to chart a better, healthier path for elite sport? And is this a peculiarly British phenomenon, or are there lessons to learn from abroad?’

Cath Bishop, author of The Long Win, is featured in The Guardian speaking about trust in high-performance sport.

Culture crises across sports are a warning siren: we cannot keep ignoring the lessons | Cath Bishop

ike waves, culture crises roll in and out of our sporting shores. Rugby and cricket have been in the headlines recently. A string of reviews have investigated Olympic and Paralympic sports including cycling, archery, bobsleigh, para-swimming, judo and gymnastics.

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Ollie Henderson in HR.com

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‘Rather than settling for the simple binary choice, take a future-focused mindset and explore how reimagining work will allow you to attract the best talent and grow.’

Ollie Henderson, author of  Work/Life Flywheel is featured in HR.com speaking about how to take a future-focused mindset and explore how reimagining work will allow you to attract the best talent and grow.

Designing The Future Of Work Is All About Trade-Offs

When making big changes – whether at work or in life – it’s easy to resort to binary thinking – things must be one way or another. But these decisions needn’t exist at extremes. There’s always a spectrum across which lies the best and most appropriate solution. Take hybrid work, for example.

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Deb Mashek in ReWorked

‘If you’re looking to initiate a collaborative relationship, it would be a mistake to merely hope that good opportunities will kick up or to assume that you’ll be seen as someone with whom others will want to collaborate’

Deb Mashek, author of Collabor(h)ate, is featured in a ReWorked article on Collaboration and Productivity.

How to Become a Trusted Collaborator

All relationships begin somewhere. At some point in time. Somehow. We transition from being strangers to friends. From being neighbors to running buddies. From being single to coupled. Relationship transitions are all around us, including in our professional lives. One relationship transition that’s particularly important in the workplace is the move from being a mere acquaintance to a trusted collaborator.

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Joanna Gaudoin on Young Upstarts

‘If you make time for building relationships with others and working on your non-technical skills in your career, you will reap the rewards – both in terms of navigating your professional life more easily and progressing your career.’

Joanna Gaudoin, author of Getting On, is featured on Young Upstarts speaking about the importance of developing non-technical skills in your working-life.

Why You Need To Develop Your Non-Technical Skills In Your Working Life – Young Upstarts

by Joanna Gaudoin, managing director of Inside Out Image and author of “Getting On: Making Work Work” Throughout school, university and even into first roles, your focus is predominantly on technical knowledge – learning information and being able to apply it.

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Ollie Henderson in HRD Connect

‘We can all be creative if we follow our curiosity and focus on things we genuinely care about’

Ollie Henderson, author of  Work/Life Flywheel is featured in HRD Connect speaking about how HR leaders can harness the power of the digital age to compliment their own leadership creativity.

Digital HR: Harnessing creative leadership in the digital age – HRD

“I’m not very creative.” After a childhood punctuated by various failures at learning to play instruments and scarred by an inability to progress beyond rudimentary stick people in art class at school, I didn’t consider myself creative. It wasn’t until much later that I understood that creativity isn’t something reserved for painting and music or writing poems or short stories.