What is happiness? Does happiness at work make our employees more productive? Will we be more profitable? Will we have an edge on our competitors? Will this help make a positive impact on the world around us?”

We are on the home stretch. Can you believe we’re about to hit the fourth quarter of the year 2022?! What can the beginning of a season or the beginning of a quarter mean for…

The great thing about having your own business is that you get to design it. Hello, freedom! But sometimes we get so busy, that we forget to make the most of this freedom. What I…

What a month! Great to see two big projects come to fruition and wins with ongoing Leadership Coaching clients. In July I was part of a team that delivered a 3-day off-site Leadership Conference. With external…

Negative feedback. Love it or hate it. It won’t surprise you to know, that most people hate it. So why does feedback hurt so much? Firstly, it has a bit to do with how our…

As a kid, have you been asked “Did you make any friends at school today?” The reason we ask this question of children nervously is that we know that school without friends can be a…

What can the beginning of a season or the beginning of a quarter mean for you and your mindset? If you think about the beginning of the year, often that we have this idea of a fresh start and a new chance to start things. We might have big goals for our life or for our business or for our job and full of fresh energy…

A lot of tough stuff comes up when you start to grow a team. As a leader or solopreneur, there’s the worry that maybe your clients won’t like to see that you’re growing a team……

Negative feedback. Love it or hate it? It won't surprise you to know, most people hate it. In today's episode, we're going to be covering four key things about negative feedback. Number One: why negative feedback is so hard. Two: discover how open you are to feedback. Three: four quick ways to improve your openness for feedback, and Four: how you can give feedback to your team…

In the movie Training Day, Denzel Washington plays a rogue detective character and he tells his new protege, in effect "this is chess, not checkers". He means the job is way more complicated than it seems. It's fast, dynamic and with lots of moving parts…

Half of the year is done! It’s great to have a couple of new ways to share resources with clients – this month with a new website and in May the podcast launched! You might…

Have you ever asked a child “Did you make any friends at school today?” The reason we ask this question of children nervously is because we know that school without friends can be a lonely and hostile place. With friends and the other hand, it can be really good fun. And so you can work. But what are some of the common pitfalls that we can come across with friendships at work? Are work friendships a good idea, or a terrible idea?

Building a business often means building a team. But sometimes when we hire people, we then realise our clients only want to work with us, not our team. Eek. Today’s episode we’ll go through five options that you can implement, today, to improve the relationship between your clients and your team, plus a few mindset blocks that can stunt our team growth…

One of the most common questions I get about leadership is this: Are leaders born, or made? It is the common "nature versus nurture" question, which we will be going through in today's podcast. So in any good debate, you need to hear both sides. Side One: leaders are born, Side Two leaders are made. …

Have you ever had the experience when you ask someone to do something they say yes, but it doesn't get done? Maybe you asked someone to do a report or perhaps you've asked someone to hang out the washing. But despite on the surface, they say, yes, it doesn't happen. Why is that? Today, we're going to talk about one magic word that can make a difference to how you phrase this question to get more action…

The great thing about having your own business is that you get to design it. Hello, freedom. But sometimes we get so busy, we forget to make the most of this freedom. Did you start your business doing “all the things”, and now working out how to grow so you have more freedom and flexibility? Today’s episode is for you…

I want to tell you first, a little story about dating, and then about the Leadership Ladder, and how leaders aren’t born, they’re trained. Now Kate, what does dating have to do with leadership? Stick…

What can we learn from dating that applies to leadership? The friendship ladder and the relationship ladder are two different things. You can’t move up the relationship ladder and expect the top rung to be a relationship. It’s a completely different ladder, and you need to jump from the friendship ladder to the relationship ladder (at the risk of falling into the nothingness in between!)

If you are thinking about hiring soon, here’s a little tip: Don’t put your candidates under unnecessary pressure just to see if they crack. So many leaders have told me that they do this when…

In today's episode, we're talking about something that leaders tell me they do when they interview a potential candidate. And let me tell you, it seems like a great idea. But in this episode, you'll be understanding why this approach is not a great approach to have in your interviews…