If January Motivation Feels Hard, Your Team Isn’t Lazy – Here’s What Leaders Are Missing
January often raises quiet concerns for leaders: you’ve set fresh goals, you’ve reset priorities and you’re ready to start strong. But instead of renewed energy, you notice something else: people seem quieter people seem quieter decision-making slows confidence...
Why ‘New Year Motivation’ Often Backfires and What High-Potential Employees Actually Need Instead
January is full of good intentions in the workplace. Fresh goals, new performance targets and renewed pressure to ‘start strong.’ And yet, by February, many leaders notice the same pattern: confidence dips engagement softens capable employees become quieter, more...
When Confidence Is Lacking: A Case Study on How Low Confidence Quietly Damages Team Performance
Most leaders don’t realise how low confidence at work shows up in hidden, disruptive ways, and yet according to research from Harvard Business Review, low confidence plays a significant role in workplace performance. It hides itself inside difficult behaviour,...
Festive Indulgence or Emotional Overload? How Leaders Tell the Difference
Every December, workplaces shift into a familiar rhythm. Client lunches get longer. Office kitchens overflow with chocolates and gifted wine. Snacks appear everywhere you look. Team dinners, after-work drinks and “go on, just one more” moments fill the calendar. Most...
Why Managers Need to Ask the Question Everyone Avoids: “How Does That Make You Feel?”
Have you ever left a meeting certain everyone was aligned - only to get a message later where one colleague praises your idea… while another is quietly fuming? Most leaders assume this is personality, poor communication, or ‘office dynamics.’ But it’s not. What you’re...
Why Most L&D Programmes Don’t Stick (and What Smart Leaders Do Instead)
You roll out a new learning initiative, the feedback forms glow with praise, and everyone leaves feeling inspired. Fast-forward a few weeks… and not much has changed. It’s not that your people don’t care. It’s that their brains don’t. The Real Culprit: The Habit Loop...
What I Learned from Creating an Online Course (the Hard Way)
If you watch any clip on YouTube or Instagram, creating an online course looks easy.“Four simple steps!” they say. “Earn £10,000 a month from your expertise!” How hard can it be? (Bearing in mind I thought I could do this while still delivering paid client work and...
AI vs Humans in Soft Skills Training
Artificial intelligence is transforming the world of learning, but can it really teach confidence, courage, or connection? I created an avatar of myself as an experiment. Could I use it instead of me in my online course? It would save huge amounts of time, money, and...
The Secret Language of Behaviour
No matter what you say in meetings, send in emails, or write in strategy decks - your behaviour teaches your team what’s really acceptable. What You Model, You Magnify Every team takes its cues from the people in charge. If you rush, they rush. If you micro-manage,...
The Success Cycle: Where Real Results Really Start
It’s time to turn traditional success thinking on its head. We’ve been taught to lead from the outside in. Set targets. Drive results. Measure performance. It’s logical. It’s structured. It’s familiar. But it’s also the wrong way round. Because success - for you, your...