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How to overcome imposter syndrome
Now that you know what Imposter Syndrome looks like in your business, let’s talk about how to get past it. Here are 3 steps to overcome Imposter Syndrome. You might recognize these from the podcast…

Setting Expectations with Employees
How to set and manage expectations as a leader or small business owner. Over the Summer Holidays (which is normally 6 weeks over Christmas in Australia), I’d often play board games with my two sisters….

Micromanagement examples to stop doing (and how)
Be a better leader and motivate your team by NOT micromanaging. As a leader, you’re juggling your own stuff, plus overseeing a team with all their stuff too! It’s a big challenge to keep everyone…

How to decide the best team structure for your business: Employee vs Contractor
What entrepreneurs should consider when hiring employees vs contractors. You’ve been doing “all the things” in your business—by yourself. While you’re proud of what you’ve created, you’d like to scale and grow. And where’s that…

Avoid these 10 hiring mistakes
Don’t make these common mistakes when hiring staff for your small business. Maybe you’ve already hired your first team member. Or you’re still going solo and completely fried from burning the midnight oil—all day, every…

The blame game
When something goes wrong, is your first response to want to know whose fault it is? Now on the surface, this makes complete sense. Once you find out whose fault it is, you can fix it…

What’s the difference between Reacting and Responding to conflict?
Imagine this: Your phone rings. It’s a client you’ve been working with on a really big project. The person on the other end is furious. They cannot believe the work that you’ve done has not…

Why staying small is the next big thing for BUSINESS…
Everyone is always on the lookout for the Next Big Thing. Today I wanted to share about a book called Company of One by Paul Jarvis. It is a book all about why staying small is…

My 9 Top Leadership books
If you’ve been following along for a little while, you’ll know that I am an avid reader. I’m often asked what are my favourite leadership books. And through curating this list, I realized that there…

What is your self sabotage style?
What was your New Year’s Resolution? Are you still working on it, or perhaps it’s been abandoned with a little mental note to think “I’ll try again next year”. A sabotaged New Year’s resolution that…

How does fear control us?
Today I wanted to share a little story about swimming with whales. And in true Kate style, this story leads me to share a tip that you can apply to your life and to your work…

How do you change someone’s mind?
If you’re a leader, it’s likely that not everyone you work with will agree with your decisions. And that is okay. (In fact, if everyone does agree with your decisions, I would challenge you to consider that you…

What is happiness?
The topic of happiness is one I am often questioned about. People are really curious about how they get happiness, and often there is a misconception. This misconception is “once I reach these certain things,…

How do you run your quarter?
We are on the home stretch. Can you believe we’re about to hit the fourth quarter of the year 2022?! What can the beginning of a season or the beginning of a quarter mean for…

Is your business a Solo, Hero or Agency structure?
The great thing about having your own business is that you get to design it. Hello, freedom! But sometimes we get so busy, that we forget to make the most of this freedom. What I…

ZENITH JOURNAL *JULY HIGHLIGHTS*
What a month! Great to see two big projects come to fruition and wins with ongoing Leadership Coaching clients. In July I was part of a team that delivered a 3-day off-site Leadership Conference. With external…

Why does feedback hurt so much?
Negative feedback. Love it or hate it. It won’t surprise you to know, that most people hate it. So why does feedback hurt so much? Firstly, it has a bit to do with how our…

Can you be friends with your boss/employees?
As a kid, have you been asked “Did you make any friends at school today?” The reason we ask this question of children nervously is that we know that school without friends can be a…

ZENITH JOURNAL *JUNE HIGHLIGHTS*
Half of the year is done! It’s great to have a couple of new ways to share resources with clients – this month with a new website and in May the podcast launched! You might…

WHAT WILL CLIENTS THINK?
A lot of tough stuff comes up when you start to grow a team. As a leader or solopreneur, there’s the worry that maybe your clients won’t like to see that you’re growing a team……

HOW DOES DATING RELATE TO LEADERSHIP?
I want to tell you first, a little story about dating, and then about the Leadership Ladder, and how leaders aren’t born, they’re trained. Now Kate, what does dating have to do with leadership? Stick…

STRESS MAKES US DUMBER
If you are thinking about hiring soon, here’s a little tip: Don’t put your candidates under unnecessary pressure just to see if they crack. So many leaders have told me that they do this when…

ZENITH JOURNAL *MAY RECAP
✨ CATCH UP ON THE LEVEL UP LEADERSHIP PODCAST ✨ Last week was the official podcast launch (yahoo!). To celebrate the release of the first five episodes, you’re in the running for a pack of…

THE LEVEL UP LEADERSHIP PODCAST
I can’t believe the day is finally here. This has been a work in progress for over a year and I’m so excited that it’s ready for you to tune in. This podcast is for…

A HABIT THAT’S HOLDING YOU BACK.
I’m scared of having tough conversations with my team… so maybe I’ll just do it myself (or not hire anyone into my team). Have you ever thought something like that ☝️ before, [first name]? Or…

STOP DOING IT SOLO
Something my clients tell me all the time? Leadership is lonely. When you’re responsible for your people (and/or business) you lose the feeling of having ‘peers’. People who you can talk to, that can help…

I TOOK AN UNPLUGGED HOLIDAY
It’s no secret that I like to get out and do things. I love to travel. See new places. Go on adventures. One of my favourite adventures? Hiking the Three Capes in Tasmania. For those…

ZENITH JOURNAL *APRIL HIGHLIGHTS*
Here’s a wrap of April, including… book summary for you some cool research on the most important leadership skill A a highlight reel of what I got up to this month (and mark your calendar!…

READY TO HIRE?
Ready to level up? People say to me that they want to grow their business, but don’t know where to start. It just feels so overwhelming. Or that they’ve grown organically without a plan, and…

MY OTHER JOB
I have a monthly shift as a volunteer surf lifesaver… One of my other lives. At the beginning of each shift, we pull everyone in for a team brief to talk about the surf conditions…

ZENITH JOURNAL *MARCH RECAP
March. What a month. Things are all a bit crazy in the world. Sometimes it can feel really overwhelming. Stephen Covey’s Model of Proactivity can be a nice reminder of our Circle of Influence. I’m…

YOU ARE GOOD ENOUGH ✨
Fun fact: I perform in musicals. 💃 I know! I told you that I live a lot of lives. There’s just so many things that I enjoy doing. But every time I audition for a…
🌱 REMEMBER TO ROTATE YOUR PLANT
Are you a plant person? I rotate my plants every few weeks so they grow straight. It’s the heliotropic effect in action. Wondering what that is? By nature, all organisms are naturally drawn to sources…
I’M NOT OLD ENOUGH
Something that comes up a lot, especially with solopreneurs, is this false idea that you need to wait to pass some arbitrary threshold before you start delegating. While yes, of course, there are certain business…

HI 👋 I’M A RECOVERED DOER.
When I first started Zenith Journey, I did everything myself. Everything. I was a classic “doer” who thought that I needed to DO it all. I was a one-woman marketing department who wrote my own…

ZENITH JOURNAL *FEBRUARY RECAP
For the shortest month, I had the most amount of in-person workshops in 2 years. Which to be honest, isn’t hard (thee-who-shall-not-be-mentioned *cough*). It was so nice to do workshops with teams, using physical card-sorts,…

MY BRAIN-IVERSARY!
27th February 2022 is my 4-year brain-iversary. It’s been 4 years since my vertebral artery dissection and (first) minor stroke. When I was in hospital I set a goal to do another half-ironman triathlon in…

DO YOU HAVE THIS LEADERSHIP BLIND SPOT?
I was working with two different senior leaders recently. From two different companies, in two different industries. Yet, they had the same challenge. They were struggling with getting their teams to take ownership of projects….

WHAT LEADERSHIP STYLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU?
How do you decide what leadership style is right for you? The great news is, you already have a leadership style. Everyone does. Even if we don’t know it. Why? Because we are all leaders….

3 THINGS TO LAUNCH YOUR LEADERSHIP
Have you ever noticed that the person who is the best at sales, then gets promoted to be the head of the sales team? Or the best engineer then is promoted to lead the team?…

HOW ‘COACHABLE’ ARE YOU? 4 QUICK WAYS TO IMPROVE
I used to hate getting negative feedback. because it would reinforce the feeling that I hadn’t done a good enough job (or the feeling that I wasn’t good enough). So what did I do? Avoid…

THE PHRASE THAT CHANGED MY VIEW ON ‘ACCOUNTABILITY’..
It was about 6 years ago, and at that time I was the Director of People and Performance for a project management firm. In one of our Executive Team workshops, we each had to present…

THE INTROVERT VS. THE EXTROVERT
How to get the best from Introverts and Extroverts, PLUS one nifty facilitation technique – ‘think, pair, share’. Register for the free Masterclass in June 2021 “3 ways to engage your audience, using visuals (and…

TONIGHT I WILL TICK OFF A GOAL THAT HAS BEEN 1144 DAYS IN THE MAKING
Tonight I will tick off a goal that has been 1144 days in the making. If someone told me how hard it would be, or how many ups and downs, I would have felt devastated. …
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WHY YOU NEED TO GET USED TO CHANGE (AND HOW TO CHANGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION) [VIDEO AND BLOG]
Why you need to get used to change (and how to change in the right direction) Have you ever said to a child “wow, you’ve grown!” Even if it was only a week since your…

CREATE A REMARKABLE TAKE-AWAY FOR YOUR CLIENTS WITH THIS “SIMPLE 1:1 MEETING TEMPLATE “
How do you record your coaching conversations with your team or clients? Most people don’t. Which means that the golden moments can get lost, and the steps forward forgotten. And the next time you meet…

7 COACHING QUESTIONS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOU LEAD FOREVER
If you’ve been following Zenith Journey for a while, you may know… at the end of 2019 I had another small stroke, and in May 2020, heart surgery. Sometimes we all need some time in…

HOW TO USE THE “SCIENCE OF HAPPINESS” AT WORK
Science shows that people who are happy at work, are more productive and more sought after leaders and team members. So if it is so beneficial, how can we encourage more of it? I host a…

CHANGING THE WORLD ONE LEADER AT A TIME.
In 2014, after more than 7 years of working with countless leaders, trying my best to bring a contribution to positive change in organisations, I had a realisation. No consultant will ever change a company….

3 BOOKS THAT BLEW MY MIND (AND HEART) IN 2018
As the year is drawing to an end and a new cycle of life is waiting to be born, most of us feel like taking some time to reflect on the past twelve months, with…

BOOKS FOR INSPIRATION: “FEEDING YOUR DEMONS” BY LAMA TSULTRIM ALLIONE
It has been four years since I stumbled, in a little book shop in Seattle, upon a book that would make me rethink and expand my previous map of the world. The book is called…

THE TRAGEDY OF THE PERFECTIONIST
“What did you do in school today?” is the question that I heard every day, approximatively 170 days per year, for twelve years. This means I heard this question at least 2040 times in my…

WHAT IS OUR WHY AS PARENTS AND WHO ARE WE BEYOND OUR CHILDREN
Recently I had a conversation with my three year old daughter, which shook me to the core. “Edna, I love you and I am so happy to have you in my life and to have…

WHY DOES A LEADER NEED TO KNOW THEIR OWN BRAIN?
In 2007, as I (Alis) began my career as a leadership development trainer, I was (naively) convinced that, if you show leaders what the best practices are when it comes to effective behaviours at work,…

WHAT IS ADULT PSYCHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND WHY SHOULD YOU CARE?
All of the key messages I got throughout my upbringing have been centred around what a successful person should learn/do/achieve in order to lead a happy, prosperous and fulfilling life. For years I strived to…

MINDFULNESS – A LIFE SKILL FOR A NEW WORLD
Twenty years ago, the concept of mindfulness and practices like meditation or yoga were in the realm of hippies, eccentrics, of the quirkiest of us. Since then, a revolution has taken place. While MRI and…

LET’S TALK STRAIGHT ABOUT COACHING
Last night I found my partner in the kitchen listening to a podcast. “It’s a coaching session” he told me as I walked in. “The coach is a friend of mine, a guy I like…

LIMITING BELIEFS – HOW TO BREAK FREE OF THE CAGE WE LOCK OURSELVES INTO
Over two decades ago, a remarkable man, a psychology professor called Martin Seligman, had a dialogue with his 5 year old daughter that would change his own life and the course of the science of psychology…

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