If you are a communication or PR professional, you know just how important it is to have a strong and positive relationships with you stakeholders. Building our coaching skills can help us to move from tactical to strategic, advisor to partner and do it with confidence. 

Finding your authenticity and your inner power. Who is that amazing you? That person who speaks clearly, with confidence and in a way connects to the people around you? That person who leads and influences others, who enables positive change and achieves huge goals. It is you!

This is Part 2 of 2 on journaling to help you to get more value from your journaling practice. Part 1 gave you tips on getting started and making journaling a consistent practice. Once you get a basic practice of keeping a journal you can start experimenting with using it as a reflection tool to help you to make decisions, problem-solve, work through and deal with emotions and just get to know yourself better.

I get many questions about journaling from folk who are thinking about it or trying to journal, so I wanted to share some of my thought and ideas about journaling to hopefully inspire you to give it a try or step up the quality of your journaling. This is Part 1 to get your started and improve consistency. Part 2 helps you to get more value from your journaling practice.

Leadership visibility is incredibly important, however, leading is less about the decisions you make behind closed doors and much more about how you are able to involve, inspire and ignite action from the people who play a role in your business success. Leader isn’t a leader if she has no followers.Human Leadership is about how others feel about themselves when they are with you. Do they feel MORE inspire and energised, MORE capable and confident, MORE a part of something meaningful?

Leaders are being challenged to be more authentic. But what does authenticity mean and how can you find and nurture it?

Ubuntu means that, 'what I am is a result of who we are as humans - I am not much without others'. In other words, what I am and what I do impacts you and many others. In turn, what you do has implications for me and for others too. We must therefore care about what the other does. Learn more and join the workshop…

I believe that the ability to hold up the mirror to those we support is essential but also one of those skills that requires you to have full confidence in the follow through. You need to hold up that mirror with full confidence and conviction.

The key to asking good questions. I believe that curiosity is the key to asking questions and quality listening.

When you are curious, you are in the space between what you used to know and what you are about to learn. You have the desire to learn something new and to do that you are willing to give up what you might have believed before. If you can hold your own beliefs and ideas very lightly, curiosity becomes a whole lot easier.