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Join us at the Leadership Roundtable:
The Leadership Roundtable is a structured, small-group leadership forum designed for emerging leaders and high-potential professionals who are growing into greater responsibility. It provides a focused space to develop judgment, confidence, and decision-making capability through guided discussion and practical application — outside internal politics and performance pressure.
The Open Session offers a focused introduction to the monthly leadership topic, including responses to questions submitted in advance. It is designed for professionals who want insight and clarity on specific leadership challenges before deciding whether to engage more deeply.
Get insider knowledge on interview success from those who make the hiring decisions - delivered through an engaging audio course with accompanying slides:
In this free 50 min. course, you will find out:
1.How to find out what jobs would be great for you;
How research jobs and companies,
How to prepare your application;
What you need to know about various interviewing techniques;
How to act during a job interview;
What to do after a job interview;
How to succeed in your new role.
Why wait? Your next interview could be just around the corner. Through our Thinkific course, you'll master strategies that give you a real edge over candidates who show up with just a CV in hand. Grab your free templates and start preparing today. We'd love to celebrate with you when you secure that perfect position.
The Wright Stuff
Whole Life Leadership: Mind, Body, Spirit & Success
Articles covering everything from meditation and nutrition to management techniques and career advancement.
When Leaders Don’t Decide, Teams Burn Out
Not all leadership burnout is caused by workload. Some of it is caused by indecision.
When leaders delay decisions — waiting for more data, more consensus, or perfect certainty — uncertainty is passed down the organisation. Teams absorb it as hesitation, frustration, and wasted energy.
This article explores why decision-making sits at the core of effective leadership, how stress, experience, and emotional intelligence influence decisions, and what leaders can do to create clarity without burning themselves or their teams out.
Busy being lazy
Our world is getting faster and faster. Smart gadgets are allowing us to do more things - to work more, to play more - and yet we feel less and live less. So many people appear stressed either being busy or not being busy enough.
A holistic approach is needed to both - busyness and laziness. Busyness by be great to boost our self-esteem but it may also make us stressed and sick.
We may have good reasons to be lazy but have to be careful when and why we are lazy.
With the right motivation we can fly
Many say that motivation comes from the outside while inspiration is an inner “job”. I no longer see it that way. What do you think? I believe that it does not matter what you do or whether you work for yourself or someone else. It is actually you and your attitude that matters most. Unless you have your inner drive and desire to achieve your goals and do a great job, even the greatest motivating factors of the greatest company in the world will not work. Motivating tools wear off over time.
True inspiration is always nearby
True inspiration can be often found much closer than we think. In recent years, many people have been turning their heads towards renowned personalities looking for inspiration, for guidance.
The Golden Circle
We are not talking about the tourist route in Iceland here. We are talking about a concept described by my favourite author Simon Sinek in his book Start With Why. Following in the footsteps of others who were looking for the “golden ratio” for the perfect proportion or beauty, Sinek was looking for repeatable and predictable results or, in his words, for “order and predictability of human behaviour”.
Why am I researching Why
“Why is it that some people achieve great things and some fail miserably doing the same things the same way? How is it possible when their WHATs and HOWs are the same? “