Ingredients of High Performing Teams

Ingredients of High Performing Teams

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle As a leadership consultant, I have the privilege to assist organisations in building high-performing teams, and increasingly more of my time is spent on this critical aspect of...
Survival Skills in an Upside-Down World

Survival Skills in an Upside-Down World

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli At recent conferences or other speaker engagements, I have asked the question if anyone thinks that life is getting easier… Not once did someone give me a positive...
The Power of Reframing

The Power of Reframing

I often think about the reasons why some people are more successful than others. Being motivated to achieve success as you define it, making the right choices and following through with the required amount of discipline are key ingredients to a winning formula....
Mastering Conflict Management

Mastering Conflict Management

In life, we can be 100% guaranteed to experience certain things – death, taxes… and conflict, in some way or another… You and I cannot avoid death and taxes, but we can definitely do something about conflict. In this article, I would like to share with you my thoughts...
True selfcare in 2025 and beyond

True selfcare in 2025 and beyond

 “True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake. It is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.” – Brianna Wiest This is my favourite quote, especially the second part. It is profound and strikes at the core of what, I think,...
Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “All the great speakers were bad speakers at first”. The reality is that, like any skill, our Presentation Skills can consistently improve if we intentionally focus on it. On Friday, 27 September’24, Dr Hekkie van der Westhuizen presented an...
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