Blog
Practical writing on how managers lead
On leadership styles, feedback and the everyday habits that help managers grow.
Feedback
How to give feedback in a one-on-one
What to raise, how to phrase it and how to follow it up, using the meeting you already have every week.
5 min read
AI
Managers and AI: A Love Story (or a Cautionary Tale?)
AI will take work off your plate. It will not take the judgement, and that is the job.
4 min read
New managers
Leadership Today: Less Theory, More Action
Leadership is an apprenticeship. You watch, you try, you get it wrong, you adjust.
4 min read
New managers
Essential Management Training Skills for New Leaders (And How to Learn Them on the Job)
The skills that actually matter in your first management job, and how to build them while doing it.
4 min read
New managers
Do You Need a Management Coach? A Guide for Newer Leaders
What a coach actually does for a newer manager, and how to tell whether you need one yet.
3 min read
New managers
How to Find and Develop Your Leadership Style: A Guide for New Managers
Five steps from noticing your natural tendencies to knowing whether you are getting better.
3 min read
Leadership styles
Leadership Styles in Action: Real-World Examples of Effective Leadership
Real examples of leaders switching approach as the situation changed, rather than picking one and holding it.
7 min read
Team health
Improving Team Health: Strategies for Building a Resilient Team
Team health is not a mood. It shows up in how people raise problems and whether anything happens next.
5 min read
Leadership styles
Easy Going Leadership: Fostering Collaboration with a Relaxed, Approachable Style
An open, relaxed room gets you initiative and candour. It can also get you drift.
3 min read
Leadership styles
Servant Leadership: Empowering Teams by Putting People First
Putting the team first builds deep loyalty, as long as you keep the authority to steer.
4 min read
Leadership styles
Directional Leadership: Leading with Clear Vision and Strong Direction
A clear vision removes ambiguity for everyone, including the people who would have questioned it.
4 min read
Leadership styles
Decisive Leadership: Driving Success Through Clarity and Quick Decisions
Speed is a real advantage under pressure, and it costs you the input you did not wait for.
3 min read
Leadership styles
Transformational Leadership: Inspiring Change and Driving Innovation
Inspiring people beyond the status quo works, until the vision outruns what the team can carry.
4 min read
Leadership styles
The Coaching Leadership Style: Guiding Growth and Empowering Teams
Coaching leaders build capability rather than output, and it pays back slowly and then all at once.
3 min read
Leadership styles
The Democratic Leadership Style: Leveraging Team Input for Smarter Decisions
Bringing the team into the decision gets you better answers, provided you can still land one.
5 min read
Leadership styles
Transactional Leadership: Driving Results Through Structure and Accountability
Clear structure and clear rewards deliver consistency, and rarely deliver invention.
4 min read
New managers
Building a Leadership Development Plan: A Guide
A development plan is not a document you write once. It is a habit of noticing what changed and why.
8 min read
Leadership styles
Aligning Your Leadership Style With Your Organization's Culture
Your style does not operate in a vacuum. What works depends on the culture you are leading inside.
5 min read
Product
Introducing Parafoil: Become a High Performance Leader with Science-Backed AI
Why we built a tool that watches how you actually lead, rather than asking you to describe it.
2 min read
Feedback
The Role of Self-Awareness in Leadership Development
Knowing how your behaviour lands is the difference between intending well and leading well.
3 min read
Leadership styles
The 8 Most Common Leadership Styles and How to Find Yours
Eight recognisable approaches, what each one is good at, and where each one tends to fail.
3 min read
New managers
Discover Your Leadership Style: Why It Matters from Day One
You are leading from day one, whether or not you have worked out how you lead.
3 min read