White papers
Author:
Anneli Blundell
DANGEROUS DIALOGUE: How to find your voice in moments that matter
For: HR, L&D, Leaders
Purpose: To recognise the different types of Dangerous Dialogue at work and to map your own Voice Profile to see where you’re fluent, where you’re growing, and where you may be protecting something important.
Think of this guide as your own personal communication check-in. It’s here to help you notice which conversations feel a bit risky, where you tend to hold back, and how you can start stretching your voice, without losing your values.
“If you worked as hard at doing difficult things as you did avoiding them, you’d become unstoppable.”
Author:
Anneli Blundell
Do women really need help to progress? - A practical look at 5 invisible forces that shape women in leadership
For: HR, L&D, Leaders
Purpose: to positively impact the gender agenda in the workplace
This whitepaper explores the issue of gender equality in the working world by looking at the 5 invisible forces that shape women in leadership:
The system is stuck: Bias, babies and boys’ clubs
Social backlash and double-binds: Women are damned if they do and damned if they don’t
Waiting for permission, perfection and a tap on the shoulder
Women against women: The enemy within
Men don’t feel the effects: How power blinds us
“There are different ways in which women are marginalised, and what I like about your paper is that it brings to the forefront the humanness of the gender issues within the corporate arena. It is no one’s fault but everyone’s responsibility to do it better and to achieve this we have to understand the unconscious factors at play for effective mitigation.”
Author:
Anneli Blundell
COACHING CULTURES
Turning potential into performance, one conversation at a time
For: HR, L&D, Leaders
Purpose: To encourage leaders to adapt a coaching culture in their organisations
“A coaching culture is when “a coaching approach is a key aspect of how leaders
and staff engage and develop their people, leading to increased individual, team
and organizational performance and shared value for all stakeholders.”
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Sticky Learning Guide: A resource to leverage learning
For: Participants of training programs, HR & OD Leaders
Purpose: To embed learning and make new habits stick.
This guide explores the latest in learning theory and brain science to help you hack your own learning strategy. Packed with tips and tricks it provides a road map for sustainable behaviour change to leverage learning and make the new skills stick.
Author:
Anneli Blundell
Clever but clueless – When technical competence impedes influence
For: Leaders of technical specialists or technical leaders
Purpose: To support the development of influence and engagement skills in technical thinkers
This white paper covers the key communication traps technically focused leaders fall into and how to combat them.
Authors:
Anneli Blundell
Belinda Cohen
Corrinne Armour
Growing leaders: Leadership development done differently
For: HR, L&D, Leaders
Purpose: To help leaders understand the importance of developing performance on the job.
This white paper explores why leadership development needs to change, why developing performance needs an upgrade and why the knowing-doing gap must be closed in order for leaders to grow other leaders more effectively.