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Pay it forward – the gift of great leaders

May 4, 2016
/ confidence ego empowerment leadership learning
/ By lucy barkas

Pay it forward – The gift of the leader Remember what is was like in your twenties, when you first entered the workplace. Everything was new and exciting. You went boldly into the world, with

Measuring the wrong thing

April 11, 2016
/ goals
/ By lucy barkas

Measuring doesn’t increase results I told a little story last week to a group of senior HR leaders about ditching the old Rank and Yank performance management systems and try something fresh. How

Redundancy. A devastating bombshell or birth of opportunity?

March 8, 2016
/ Career coaching confidence
/ By lucy barkas

Just another redundancy It seems that more and more of us will encounter that defining call or conversation with ur manager at some point, to tell us that our role is at risk due to this restructure, or

Performance Management – a lesson in spellings

February 29, 2016
/ confidence empowerment goals leadership
/ By lucy barkas

Performance management in practice Performance management is so simple, yet it is also the one of the hardest processes to get right. In fact 75% of HR managers agree that performance management is either

Stand for what you believe.

February 2, 2016
/ empowerment leadership vision
/ By lucy barkas

Stand for what you believe Over the last few weeks I am being drawn to, or seeing the connections between people who are making a stand for what they believe. Take David Bowie. We loved him for many reasons,

Achieving goals

December 31, 2015
/ coaching direction goals vision
/ By lucy barkas

Setting Goals to Succeed What’s your goal? I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t want to improve some aspect of their lives, or themselves. Becoming the very best version of myself and

Leaders. Don’t find them – create them.

December 16, 2015
/ coaching empowerment leadership learning
/ By lucy barkas

It all starts with leaders It should be easy to attract, develop and retain leaders. After all, there are millions of books, paper and blogs on how to be a leader, more information than you can possibly

How attractive are you as a leader?

November 23, 2015
/ coaching leadership learning values
/ By lucy barkas

I could not have imagined the workplace of today as I soon my first job after graduating back in 1998. Back then we still had fax machines, fixed hours and we had our own desk. Working from home was

Is it all about women on boards?

November 18, 2015
/ Career coaching leadership Women
/ By lucy barkas

The stats show that the millennial generation really are making a huge impact on the gender diversity debate. The thirty something generation are seeing females topping the males in professional