If every company starts producing the same ideas, the same language and the same thinking, the advantage will sit with the leaders who still bring something original to the table. Be careful what you outsource to robots and be intentional about what you keep human. Leadership communication should remain sacred.

That’s the thing about senior teams. Dysfunction is rarely shouts at you from the board room table. From the outside, the team looks functional. Inside the room, everyone knows something isn’t quite right. This is usually when someone suggests an offsite. Liz Whitney explains why Team Coaching is not a one-off event.

The POWER Model is a framework developed by Liz Whitney that supports better decision and stronger buy-in from stakeholders. In this article, originally published on Forbes.com‍, Liz talks through the stages of the model and how to put it into practice.

Leadership transitions are inevitable in growing organisations. Yet when a key leader departs, one question tends to echo through the organisation: What will happen to our culture?

I was honoured to be featured in a Forbes Coaches Council article exploring strategies for maintaining company culture during leadership transitions. Read the my summary.

Covid Special: Creative energy is a precious resource, now more than ever. You need to be careful where you spend it. Not everyone is respecting your energy as much as you’d like, so boundaries and stronger pitching criteria are necessary for Creative Leaders.

Humans are social creatures, especially us creative agency-types. We thrive in buzzing studios, working alongside like-minded creatives. It feeds our souls. So what happens when the physical reality of that is no more? And the expensive inner-city studio is no longer the hub of agency life?