by juliekay | Feb 11, 2021 | Leadership Coaching
I have recently been putting together a new programme to help people with their fear of making presentations. The clients are technically savvy and have been making competent presentations and achieving their desired outcomes, so why do they need training? Well, like...
by juliekay | Jan 27, 2021 | General Leadership
Covid-19 has been and still is, a challenging time for so many of us. I am a single parent of sons. We rely totally on my income. During the first lockdown, my training and coaching work disappeared completely almost overnight, for the first four months. My eldest son...
by juliekay | Dec 16, 2020 | General Leadership
Continuing with this month’s blog theme of “Relating” as a leadership competence, I was just reading Leadership – It’s about the people, a blog post from Mike Myatt. He emphasises that having power, a title, and authority does not create a great leader. He says:...
by juliekay | Nov 25, 2020 | Leadership Coaching
In my recent coaching sessions and while delivering my Mental Toughness programme to various leaders, there have been strong themes of feeling overwhelmed, stressed, and lacking any control over one’s own destiny. This isn’t at all surprising given the impact of...
by juliekay | Nov 4, 2020 | General Leadership, Leadership Coaching
As a leader, is it better to be respected than liked? Received wisdom suggests that, as a leader, it’s more important to be respected than liked. If I asked you which is more important, what would you say? I’m willing to bet that over 90% of all the leaders I know or...