Posts by Suzi McAlpine

This year, I’m doing something hugely counter-cultural with my business. Some might even say I’ve completely lost my marbles. Instead of growing my business, I’m shrinking it. This is an absurd move – at least if you consider the standard collective wisdom in business. It’s especially ludicrous given the wave my business is currently riding.…

It’s a ridiculously simple question. But it’s not only one of the most powerful coaching questions I’ve used, it’s one that we don’t often ask ourselves – and one that can be difficult to answer. More often we ask ourselves: What should I do? What do others want me or need me to do? What…

I have three close girlfriends who are “my people”. They’re the ones I’d call first when the thing I fear the most happens. The ones I send ugly face, greasy hair pics to on a far too regular basis. They’re the humans who have hugged me, and have sat quietly beside me with compassion and…

Chances are, by the time you read this blog today at work, you’ve already had to deal with a problem or two. Solving situations, diffusing disagreements, fighting fires. These are par for the course as a leader. You might have encountered a big, strategic problem like how do we ensure our business is futureproofed when…

So, you have a team member who isn’t performing.  It’s easy in this situation for leaders to fall prey to the fundamental attribution error where we attribute another’s actions to their character or personality, while attributing our own behaviour to external situational factors outside of our control. In other words, we tend to cut ourselves…

I don’t want to be a Debbie Downer, but burnout doesn’t seem to be going away. In fact, since I published my book Beyond Burnout in 2020, rates of burnout around the world have soared. We can’t go blaming the pandemic for all our burnout woes (it was on the rise prior to covid-19). But…

Ten years ago yesterday, stomach in knots and feeling like a fraud, I pressed ‘publish’ on my first blog for The Leader’s Digest. And so began one of the best endeavours of my professional life. Writing this blog has improved my writing skills. It paved the way for me to write my bestselling book, Beyond…

High performance in teams doesn’t happen by accident. When I think about the teams I’ve been part of where we performed really well over time, in each case, this high performance wasn’t accidental. It was carefully nurtured by the leader of that team. These leaders were purposeful in doing a few specific things. Here are…

There’s a skill that’s one of the most important for leaders to get better at right now. It’s nothing new. No trending buzzword like ‘the great resignation’ or ‘quiet quitting’. But although it might not be in vogue, it’s a skill every leader should start brushing up on. And soon. What am I talking about?…

Groov is an organisation I’m a huge fan of. It started when Sir John Kirwan – a founder of Groov – agreed to write the Foreword of my book Beyond Burnout. Since then I’ve had some great conversations with JK and done a customer-exclusive webinar with Dr Fiona Crichton. This is an article I wrote…