Author: Antoinette

Innovation

Entrepreneurial Leadership Part 1: Why is it important?

Earlier this year I received an invitation from the President of the Mentoring Institute at the University of New Mexico.  The theme of the 11th annual Mentoring Conference was to be Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.  They wanted me to deliver a keynote speech.  The title was How to Develop Innovative, Entrepreneurial

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How to Cultivate a Diverse Culture that Develops Female Talent

“How’s your organisation doing with regard to gender equality? Do you have many women at senior levels?” This line will be familiar to professionals in HR. It’s a focus for many who have recognised that gender inequality in the workplace costs companies. It impacts financial performance, idea innovation, market share, team collaboration and much more.

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How to Build Trust

How to Build Trust Through Your Personal Brand

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently”  Warren Buffett  In my last blog post, I talked about How to Clarify Your Personal Brand.  And I made the key point that it’s the unique promise of value you want to

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How to Clarify Your Personal Brand

Companies have brands. Products have brands.  Over the past few years, the concept of ‘personal branding’ has gained momentum. It has become something of a buzzword for modern professionals.But for whatever reason, many aren’t comfortable with developing their personal brand, and may find it ‘salesy’ or even disingenuous. Personal branding isn’t as intense as it sounds. Jeff

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Seven Award Winning Business Books to Read

Are you wondering what business books to read this year?  Wonder no more. Last Friday night I had the pleasure and privilege of attending the inaugural Business Book Awards at The Grange City Hotel, London. The Awards are the brainchild of Lucy McCarraher, the Managing Editor of my publisher, Rethink Press and were organised wonderfully

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How to Identify Your Critical Leadership Roles

In my last blog post I talked about the need to align your leadership development strategy with your business strategy.  And that means identifying the leadership roles that will be critical to success.  That’s what this blog post is about. While every role in your company is important, not every role is critical or strategic. Critical

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leadership development strategy

How to Align Your Leadership Development Strategy with Your Business Strategy

Did you know that only a quarter of organisations say their leadership development programmes are effective at improving performance? Research by McKinsey shows that one of the biggest mistakes companies make is they don’t align their leadership development strategy with their business strategy. So, let’s fix that.  This blog post looks at how you can

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How to Get Buy-In for a Leadership Development Initiative

Leadership development is something that every organisation knows it should do. But why? What will it help you achieve? What problems will it help you avoid or address? What would be the benefits of investing the time and money in a leadership development initiative? If you don’t have the answers, it will be hard to

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Five Powerful Beliefs to Guide Successful Leadership Development

Successful leadership development is a goal many of us strive for. When you’re responsible for developing leaders in a fast-growing company, you have many questions to answer. How can you develop the confident and skilful leaders your company needs for its continued growth and success? How can you do it in a way that is dynamic

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