Author name: Katie Best

When you’re in the C-suite but feel uncertainty around career progression and what comes next

When you climb the career ladder, there’s a suggestion that achieving a C-suite position is the end of the line. There you will stay, happy in your seniority, for the rest of your career. But as you’re likely to be ambitious to have reached the C-Suite in the first place, then just stopping feels wrong.

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What to do when your direct report isn’t managing their team very well

What should you do if you’re a skip-level manager who’s receiving complaints from your report’s report (people two levels down) that their manager is too demanding, unreasonable and is causing them stress?  A common problem – handling the behaviour of more junior leaders who are upsetting their team members. How do you step in without

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What to do when you feel like you’re not valued at work

Organisational changes are commonplace in most companies at one point or another. Despite this, the structural changes it brings can be difficult to navigate. I heard from a mid-level leader recently who, following global organisational changes, no longer reports to a senior manager but instead directly to the General Manager. While this move increased the

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