Leadership Development

Why your organisation needs to be creating leaders from within

Leadership is vital in any workplace because it helps to ensure that goals are met, that tasks are completed efficiently and that employees are motivated. Good leaders help to create an environment where everyone can do their best work and feel supported. They also...

Shake up your organisation’s career pathway to help retain your best workers

Organisations are often complex places, made up of many different teams and departments. A career pathway is the route that an employee takes through an organisation, from their initial joining point to their eventual exit. There are many different types of career...

Coaching Women Leaders with Whole Brain® Thinking

In a recent Certified Practitioners Workshop, Master Facilitator and Green Leaf Consulting founder, Cynthia Radford discussed the 7 Power Gaps that prevent professional women from achieving their highest potential (researched and written by Kathy Caprino). A power gap...

Return to Office: What Managers Can Do

The prevailing view before the pandemic was that offices were necessary for ensuring productivity, culture, and team camaraderie. However, with two out of every three Australians working from home and workforce productivity increasing by 6.5 percent over the year, it...

How does Whole Brain Thinking change your perspective?

How Project Managers can use agile thinking to deal with complexity and uncertainty

Mar 6, 2020

While all members of a project team contribute to the success or failure of a project, it’s ultimately the Project Manager who is accountable for the outcome. Taking a leading role in the planning, management and execution of a project, Project Managers oversee the...

How to be a great leader: the secret is vulnerability

Sep 30, 2019

The world is full of CEOs and leaders who think they know it all. The tech industry is especially guilty of it. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have all been called out for their aggressive leadership styles, characterised by arrogance, bravado, entitlement...

The Myth of the Most Effective Leadership Styles

Jul 24, 2019

What’s the best HBDI® profile for a leader? This is one of the most common questions we get asked about the HBDI and leadership. We all want to know which is the best profile, and we all want to know if it’s ours. Fortunately for you, the answer we give is always the...

How does agile thinking make leaders more self aware?

Mar 13, 2019

To be successful in the modern business world leaders need to be able to think with an agile mindset while also assessing their self-awareness.

4 key trends shaping the world of leadership development

Dec 17, 2018

Did you know that your management team can make or break your business? That’s why it’s so important to invest in the right development options for them.

The engagement debate: Why leaders need to invest

Nov 5, 2018

Employee engagement should be a core focus for any business. What can leaders do to better engage their team members? Let’s explore.

Identifying and developing your future leaders

Oct 29, 2018

Sourcing your leaders internally not only improves engagement in your business but allows you to play a leading role in their upskilling.

Improve your leadership approach by understanding your team

Oct 15, 2018

Here at Herrmann we know that a better understanding of thinking preferences can be transformative in so many different ways. We sat down with Senior Executive Coach Jill Livesey from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership (IECL) to talk a bit about how...