Articles Archives - Leadership and Coaching Specialists

12 Aug

5 Leadership Priorities Every Manager Should Focus On

Today’s managers are navigating uncertainty, rapid change, burnout, hybrid working, skills shortages and rising expectations. These five practical leadership priorities can help build stronger teams, improve communication and create a healthier, higher-performing culture.

19 Jul

Why Does Everyone Have an Opinion on Football – and What That Tells Us About Leadership

Football makes leadership visible. Phil Kelly explores three lessons from the World Cup—culture, team cohesion and emotional intelligence—and how business leaders can use them to build more resilient, high-performing teams.

24 Jun

When Business Gets Personal: Working with your family or friends

Working with people you know and trust can be one of the most rewarding parts of building a business. But when relationships and responsibilities overlap, things can quickly become more complicated. In this article, we look at how leaders can navigate that balance - protecting both the business and the relationship.

08 Jun

Support and Challenge: Why coaching matters more than ever for leaders

Business leadership often lacks the structured challenge found in other high-performance environments. In this article, we look at how coaching helps address this. By creating space to think, reflect and be challenged, coaching supports more effective decision-making and stronger leadership...

16 Apr

Stress Awareness Month: Rethinking workplace stress

April is Stress Awareness Month. Stress is often framed as a personal issue, but it’s largely shaped by the environments we work in, including how work is designed and led. In this article, we explore why employee stress is a business risk, and what organisations can do to move from reactive support to a more proactive, sustainable and healthy approach...

13 Apr

Say It Right: The art of feedback at work

Performance feedback sits at the heart of how people improve at work, yet it’s one of the areas many managers struggle to get right. It can feel uncomfortable, easy to delay, or difficult to land well. This article explores how to make feedback more useful, practical and part of everyday performance...

16 Mar

Learning and Development - is training the right solution?

Learning and Development: Closing the gap between investment and impact

Organisations are investing heavily in learning and development, yet the impact is often inconsistent. We look at why learning doesn’t always translate into meaningful change, and what you can do to make that investment count...

16 Feb

Authentic Leadership: Why it matters more than ever

“Be authentic” is advice most leaders will have heard at some point. It sounds straightforward, but authenticity isn’t something you can suddenly decide to demonstrate. In this article, we look at why authentic leadership has such a practical impact on trust and performance, and how you can develop authenticity...

12 Jan

When stress stacks up: How managers can support their teams

With 91% of UK adults reporting high or extreme stress over the past year, leaders can no longer treat stress as a personal issue that employees should “push through.” Unmanaged stress isn’t just a wellbeing problem; it’s an organisational risk. Effective leadership creates the conditions where pressure is absorbed rather than accumulated.

27 Nov

Dubai and Beyond: Leadership to support long-term growth

David Craig is Pro-Noctis Regional Operations Director for the Middle East and Asia. In this article, he shares his approach to leadership and people development, and why Pro-Noctis is committed to supporting organisations worldwide to develop confident, capable and culturally intelligent leaders and managers...