Posts in Aspects of Leadership
Where do you draw the line? - healthy boundaries at work
Where do you draw the line? - healthy boundaries at work

I’ve had a couple of coaching conversations in the last month where the issue of setting and maintaining boundaries has come up. Establishing and then maintaining boundaries is essential as it helps others to understand how we want to work and be with people and how we want others to treat us. “Boundaries” can include physical boundaries (invasions of personal space), mental (being overloaded with work), emotional (intrusive questions about our personal lives), or to do with values and beliefs (feeling pressured to drink at work due to religious reasons).

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Getting unstuck, Aspects of LeadershipHelen Tuddenhamboundaries, resilience, assertiveness, communication skills, self-awareness, self-worth
The Importance of a Leadership Mindset
The Importance of a Leadership Mindset

I recently read “Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader” by Herminia Ibarra. The book’s premise is that we spend too long thinking and reflecting on how we should be as leaders instead of just doing it. The author argues that we should be trying out new ways of acting as if we already were leaders. Only then will we have the experiences to reflect on to try and find a leadership mindset. This is summed up in a quote from Richard Pascale “Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than think their way into a new way of acting.”

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Aspects of LeadershipSophisticated CloudLeadership mindset, Reflective practice, Leadership coach
How to self promote without feeling like you’re selling out
How to self promote without feeling like you’re selling out

According to Tara Mohr in her book “Playing Big”, girls, in particular, learn at school to keep their heads down, do a good job, and assume their success will be noted. When success involves getting good marks in homework and exams, that works. But in the workplace, not everyone sees the good work we do. And with so many distractions for leaders at the moment, we need to work harder to make an impact.

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Aspects of Leadership, Career Progression, Women's developmentSophisticated CloudAuthenticity, self-promotion