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From Silent Struggle to a Leadership Capability System
Moving beyond describing leadership challenges to developing the capabilities that shape them, introducing 9 Leadership Capabilities System and a new…
Mar 19
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Elina
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How to Close the Gap Between Knowing and Doing: The Capability Practice Method.
He was told he would never run. By 64 he had finished a hundred marathons. He got there the same way anyone builds a hard skill. Exactly how leadership…
Jun 9
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Elina
8
2
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Difficult People Aren't Always the Problem
A two-part approach to working with people who pull a negative reaction out of you
Jun 29
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Elina
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TK | The Development Journal
12
5
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Stop fighting the behaviour. Start seeing the story.
When nobody owns the problem, who’s fault is that? We argued both sides to find out.
Jun 21
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Elina
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Luca Foppoli
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Building Trust — Monthly Summary
Watch now | Trust is not a personality trait. It is a capability you earn through consistency, through care, through how you show up under pressure.
Jun 4
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Elina
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1
17:09
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The Helpfulness Trap (Cultivating Ownership, Part 1)
Mar 25
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Elina
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Strengths-Based Career Conversations
Feb 3
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Elina
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Lauren Davidson
24
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Coaching Clarity When Everything Feels Unclear
Oct 13, 2025
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Elina
22
5
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It's Not Just About Them: Rethinking Trust
Nov 3, 2025
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Elina
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The Dashboard You’re Ignoring: Body Intelligence at Work
Your body is constantly sending signals that shape your reactions, decisions, and presence. Most leaders were never taught how to read this data.
Feb 24
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Elina
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Anxiety: The Leadership Emotion We Never Talk About, but Should
Leadership often means holding more anxiety than you show. Here's how to understand it, and why that matters.
Oct 20, 2025
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Elina
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10
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From Silent Struggle to a Leadership Capability System
Moving beyond describing leadership challenges to developing the capabilities that shape them, introducing 9 Leadership Capabilities System and a new…
Mar 19
•
Elina
9
2
From Silent Struggle to a Leadership Capability System
Moving beyond describing leadership challenges to developing the capabilities that shape them, introducing 9 Leadership Capabilities System and a new…
Mar 19
•
Elina
2
2
To Find Meaning at Work, We Don’t Need Better Titles. We Need Sense-Making.
Climbing the ladder and collecting achievements hasn’t delivered meaning. What’s missing is sense-making, understanding how we create value, not just…
Jan 6
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Elina
11
7
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Building Influence
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Stop fighting the behaviour. Start seeing the story.
When nobody owns the problem, who’s fault is that? We argued both sides to find out.
Jun 21
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Elina
and
Luca Foppoli
10
6
How to Close the Gap Between Knowing and Doing: The Capability Practice Method.
He was told he would never run. By 64 he had finished a hundred marathons. He got there the same way anyone builds a hard skill. Exactly how leadership…
Jun 9
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Elina
8
2
5
Strengths-Based Career Conversations
How to advocate for growth without burning out
Feb 3
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Elina
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Lauren Davidson
24
11
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“You Just Need to Think Like a Leader”: What That Really Means (Part 1)
This month, I’m writing a series of posts about vertical development - a framework that helps us understand how leaders grow not just in skill, but in…
Jul 22, 2025
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Elina
7
3
4
Difficult People Aren't Always the Problem
A two-part approach to working with people who pull a negative reaction out of you
Jun 29
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Elina
and
TK | The Development Journal
12
5
7
Cultivating Trust
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17:09
Building Trust — Monthly Summary
Watch now | Trust is not a personality trait. It is a capability you earn through consistency, through care, through how you show up under pressure.
Jun 4
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Elina
2
1
How to Become Someone People Trust (Building Trust Part 3)
Trust is the thing that moves careers and opens opportunities. It's also almost never named when it's missing. This article names what's actually…
May 20
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Elina
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Can you control trust at work? Curation of perspectives (Building Trust Part 2)
Two practitioners, two perspectives on one of the messiest topics in leadership — what trust at work actually means, and how much of it we can…
May 13
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Elina
and
Artur Henriques
11
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Operating When Trust Is Not on the Table (Building Trust Part 1)
Most organisations talk about trust. Few consistently live it. This piece is about how to operate effectively when trust is partial, fragile, or simply…
Apr 27
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Elina
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Inspiring Ownership
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Cultivating Ownership as a Critical Leadership Capability
This episode is a synthesis of my recent work on the Capability of Cultivating Ownership. A way of thinking about leadership that moves beyond…
Apr 23
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Elina
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Cultivating Ownership: What it Really Takes to Build a Team of Owners (synthesis and resources)
A synthesis of the exploration into cultivating ownership as a leadership capability. Clarifying underlying dynamics and bringing together the…
Apr 21
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Elina
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25:39
What Does It Actually Mean to Be a Force Multiplier? (Cultivating Ownership Part 3)
Watch now (26 mins) | Many managers try to scale their impact by doing more. Leadership starts to change when your focus moves from your own output to…
Apr 7
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Elina
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Jonathan Mithran Sunderraj
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The Trap of Either/Or Thinking (Cultivating Ownership Part 2)
Most managers either over-index on control or disappear. Neither builds ownership. Here's the harder, more honest approach.
Mar 31
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Elina
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Strategic Capabilities
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The Leadership Supplies store is open
I built an imaginary store to find out what managers really need right now. Browse the shelves. Tell me what you would buy.
May 4
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Elina
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How to Increase the Odds of Change
Change is rarely about willpower. Four research-backed levers that make change more likely, from personal goals to organisational shifts.
Feb 11
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Elina
12
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5
How to set goals that both deliver and energize
This article explores why goal setting often fails and shares two practical resources to help you do it differently.
Jan 19
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Elina
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Before You Set New Goals: 4 Mechanisms of Real Change
Change isn’t just a matter of discipline or motivation. It’s a complex, human process and we often approach it in ways that almost guarantee failure.
Dec 28, 2025
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Elina
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How to Become Someone People Trust (Building Trust Part 3)
Trust is the thing that moves careers and opens opportunities. It's also almost never named when it's missing. This article names what's actually…
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