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Professional Development for leaders
The Interview Trap and How to Overcome Your Nerves
Then the interview invitation arrives and with it, that familiar tightening in your chest. Your heart rate climbs. Your mind races. Suddenly, you’re not the composed leader you know yourself to be. You’re wondering if you’ll blank on the simplest question, stumble over your words, or fail to convey the value you bring. In my coaching business it’s known as the interview trap.
Where Your Leadership Focus Is Holding You Back
If the senior team operates in silos, middle managers will do the same. If leaders criticise peers privately but avoid difficult conversations directly, that behaviour will spread. If departments compete for status and resources without any sense of shared purpose, collaboration becomes a slogan rather than a reality.
CEO, How Are You Leading Your ELT?
Only 30% of CEOs are confident about revenue growth over the next 12 months, down from 56% in 2022.
CEOs now spend 47% of their time on issues with a horizon of less than one year, versus just 16% on decisions looking more than five years ahead.
Nearly half of senior leaders cite AI and emerging technology as both a top priority and the biggest development gap in their teams.
More than a quarter of senior leaders say lack of strategic clarity limits their effectiveness; ineffective decision-making processes rank close behind.
Retaining top talent, employee well-being, and team effectiveness have overtaken budgeting and resource allocation as the top internal priorities.
Your Comeback Starts Here!
If you haven’t interviewed in years, the stakes feel higher. You’re not just selling your skills you’re reframing your story. That’s where targeted coaching makes the difference. Research shows executive coaching delivers measurable behavioural outcomes, with moderate to strong effect sizes on performance and confidence. In other words: coaching doesn’t just help you feel better. It helps you perform better.
Building a Team of Leaders.
Article written by Multi Award Winning Leadership Coach, Nick Roud. August 18th, Auckland, New Zealand. A leadership team is more than a collection of capable individuals. It is a system of relationships, decisions, conversations and shared accountability. On a scale...
The Board Chair and CEO Relationship: Where Governance Meets Performance.
The best Chair CEO partnerships that I continue to observe are not built on friendship. They are built on mutual respect, candour, and a shared commitment to the organisation’s success.
Team Meetings and Why They are Not Working!
A good meeting is not a forum for everyone to speak at length. It is a disciplined environment in which the right people confront the right issue with enough preparation to make useful progress. It ends with ownership, next steps, and visible consequence. It is concrete. It is bounded. It respects time.
Leadership That Shapes Leaders
While residential and university based programs offer valuable frameworks and shared learning (theory), they often struggle to deliver what matters most lasting behavioural change. Insight alone is insufficient. Awareness without application fades quickly under the pressure of real-world demands. The gap between knowing and doing remains the most persistent challenge in leadership development.
Career Direction During Change: Navigating Redundancy at the Executive Level.
Self-doubt will emerge. For high-performing leaders, this can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable. Rather than suppressing it, use it as data. What is it pointing to? Where might your previous environment have constrained you? What have you outgrown? The objective is not to indulge doubt, but to interrogate it with discipline and perspective.
Leadership. So What Is It?
People do not look to leaders for perfection; they look for steadiness. They look for someone who can hold both the weight of reality and the possibility of a better future at the same time.