Unlocking Leadership Effectiveness
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Great leadership is about influence, vision, and adaptability. This blog explores strategies for goal setting, decision-making, and team motivation. Whether you're a seasoned leader or aspiring one, find insights to grow, inspire, and lead with confidence. Let’s unlock leadership success together

The newest season of the NewlandRock Leadership Effectiveness Podcast focused on developing and achieving strategic success through Leadership Assessment.
Why did I focus an entire season on the importance of assessment?
Leadership level assessment is a powerful process that can help organisations...
The more senior we are in our work the greater the stakes. The greater the pressure. The greater the impact. The greater the responsibility to yourself and others. It’s in this space where leaders can get hijacked by the stressful situations they face and this can show up as a lack of emotional cont...
Can the Level of your Leadership Success Be Impacted By Your Style?
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đź’ˇ What does your professional identity say about who you are as a leader and as a person?
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Are You Making Your Value Clear?
đź’ˇ How are you representing yourself?
đź’ˇ Do you sit there in meetings thinking about the context without sharing your thoughts with the room?
đź’ˇ Are you being clear on what it is you want to be known for and aligning it with what it is that you want to say?
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Understanding how your own saboteurs are impacting your choices, thoughts and leadership agility is essential when developing your career as a leader. In this episode, I interview self-sabotage expert Damian Culhane to understand more about how leaders can develop their mental fitness muscles to ide...
Unlock Key Insights from Our Leadership Assessment Podcast Series
In season four of The Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, we highlighted a range of game-changing insights on leadership assessment—helping leaders understand what truly drives success in their roles. Now, we’ve distilled the top highl...
Hiring executive talent at a senior leadership level is challenging and costly. Too often organisations let gut feel, unconscious bias and drawn-out processes lead, without considering how executive assessment can help to blend and balance with vital ingredients and evidence-based insights.
In this e...
As leaders, it's important to continually assess our skills and strengths in order to grow and develop as individuals. In this new season, we'll be diving deep into the topic of leadership assessment, exploring different methods, strategies, and tools that can help you become a better leader and unc...
In this episode of the Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, I interview Business & Organisational Transformation Expert Taranjeet Singh on the strategic impact leadership assessment and profiling can have on an organisation’s success.Â
- In our discussion, we dive deep into the privilege and responsib ...
As leaders, it's important to continually assess our skills and strengths in order to grow and develop as individuals. In this new season, we'll be diving deep into the topic of leadership assessment, exploring different methods, strategies, and tools that can help you become a better leader and unc...
From fostering a culture of collaboration and trust to maximising individual strengths and harnessing collective intelligence, in Series 5 of The Leadership Effectiveness Podcast we explored the key ingredients that differentiate high-performing teams from the rest, alongside our expert panel, thoug...
Join Leadership Effectiveness Expert Kate Thomas as she unpacks the most pressing questions about what truly sets high-performing teams apart.
In this first episode, Kate shares her personal insights and experiences, breaking down the essential components that transform a group of individuals into ...
The Great Resignation reshaped the workforce, creating both challenges and opportunities for organisations. As leaders, the question isn’t just how to retain talent—it’s how to redefine your talent strategy for long-term success.
In Season 1 of The Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, we explored this...
In this episode of the Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, DEI, leadership and coaching expert Melody Moore discusses the ideal make up of a team and the pitfalls we often fall into when creating a high-performing team.
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Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint. Yet too often, leaders push forward without pausing to reset—leading to burnout, decision fatigue, and diminishing impact. Sustainable leadership isn’t just about driving results; it’s about maintaining the energy, clarity, and resilience needed to lead effect...
In this episode of the Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, I discuss the human-centric element of leadership teams with Top Team Performance Expert Andrew Lopianowski.Â
Being a highly effective team and being good leadership team are similar but not the same. The team can't start thinking about how the...
Building a complimentary high-performing team that's hitting its revenue and profit goals and pulling together can be a challenging task.
In this episode of the Leadership Effectiveness Podcast, I interview Executive Search Expert Guy Day from BartonRock to discuss the role an external consultant ...
In this episode we discuss the dynamics that are in play for high-pressure leadership teams and the impact greater access to well-being tools and strategies can have in enhancing the effectiveness of themselves and the team they serve.Â
I interview Ian Kershaw, CEO of The Tranquil Mind, a well-being ...