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In my previous newsletter, I shared, based on a decade of data from coaching leadership teams, 80% of teams flounder more than flourish.

Over the past month I’ve been analysing ten years of data from coaching executive and leadership teams. The results are clear, whilst unsurprising, they present infinite possibilities.

In over a decade of coaching teams, I’ve noticed one differentiating attribute that separates high-performing teams from ordinary teams: courageous authenticity.

As humans, we are never not in language – we speak, listen, think and act in language. As a leader, your language is never innocent; there’s intention in everything you say.

Integrity, rightly so, is held to be a virtue of great leaders. But what does the word mean? It originated from the Latin word, integra which means ‘whole or complete’.

John Maxwell, a renowned leadership expert, once said, “a leader is one who is most like themselves.”  Having reflected, ask yourself, ‘so, who am I as a leader?’