Mentor-Coach Conversation | Useful guidance about tensions, dilemmas and paradoxes by Wendy K. Smith and Marianne W. Lewis, authors of ‘Both/And Thinking: Embracing Creative Tensions to Solve Your Toughest Problems’
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | A combined board is stronger than any one individual and its collective capability combines a range of individual skills, experiences and potential. While board selection decisions come down to four factors, there are important questions for nominations committees and candidates to consider to determine who is the ‘right’ director.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Nomination committees that answer “who is the ‘right’ director given our future direction?” create capability for a stronger organisation. Dianne’s article ‘Improve Board Composition’ appeared in the Company Director magazine by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | For reinvention, uncover your hidden methodology for success, its benefits and limitations. What is your context and perception about success?
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | It is important how leaders perceive and use their power. People do not ‘have’ power as it is both conditional and situational. It depends on context, relationship, timing and dynamics. Empathetic, ethical and purposeful uses of power is what makes a better leader.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | How do leaders bring about and cope with systemic change in a more thoughtful way? The accelerators and reversals; opportunities and challenges - for businesses, their teams and themselves?
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | How do you consider if this is the right board for you? What are the ‘deal breakers’ for joining a board? Which hard and soft factors should be assessed? Where should an aspiring director draw the line?
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | There comes a time when the end of your board term is approaching and you need to assess whether to stay or go. "Why am I on this board?" and ‘What drives you as a director?’ are good starting points, but there are further questions you may need to ask.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Lessons on leadership and legacy. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. A legacy and life worth celebrating.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | As you start to plan your NED portfolio career here is some tried and true advice to start the journey. Like most transitions, it takes time and planning as the move often unfolds differently to what you first imagined.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | My article for AICD’s Company Director magazine, on making an impact and contributing with clear value when joining a new board.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Lead others through trust and manage self through resilience. Resilience requires adaptiveness. Above all, it requires being kind to yourself while caring for the wellbeing of others.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | For many, certain questions of doubt keep recurring. Will they be good enough? Will they be found out? Will the next role or assignment be the one that brings them undone? Here are some solutions.
Mentor-Coach Conversation | The move toward culturally diverse boards continues to be slow mainly due to systemic barriers. Yet, at an individual and collective level, boards are astutely aware they perform best when they reflect their wide-ranging and diverse world.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Whether you are part of an executive team, in the c-suite or have joined the boardroom, one thing is certain, where you focus your attention and what you listen for, shapes your contributions.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | How do you make sure you are better prepared for the next level? Without the ability to leverage change into a source of advantage, individual and technical skills are all but temporal. A lack of future relevancy is a key career risk for executives.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Advancing women at Australian corporates should not be risky business. Yet, despite a strong business case for female representation, the data shows that for Australia’s biggest public companies giving women seats at the executive table is still proving a challenge for decision-makers.
Read MoreMentor-Coach Conversation | Without a valuable and credible capability narrative, it is difficult for the nominations committee to truly understand the contribution you bring as a non-executive director.
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