Blog - Madeleine Shaw Executive Coaching

Lately I’ve been thinking (somewhere in a continuum between daydreaming and plotting) about creative ways I might be able to spend more time in both my beloved city of Paris AND my beloved city of Sydney… how to spend time here with family and dear friends, keep working, AND enjoy la vie parisienne, which makes me feel so happy and alive in a way that’s hard to put i...

Are people telling you you're doing well? Then why don't you believe them?

I frequently work with brilliant, capable, successful people for whom this is an issue.

Usually, it's because they're comparing their backstage to someone else's front of house. They see each of their own missteps, every moment they faked confidence, every wobble or near-m...

Fruit salad might be yummy yummy, but word salad not so much.

What’s word salad? It’s the unintelligible word vomit of phrases that sound like they might be profound but actually mean nothing.

Q: What is your team focusing on?

A: We are currently looking at our internal frameworks to ensure that our ongoing operations align directly with our long-term goals ...

People are selling a device that physically jiggles your computer mouse so your status light stays green. Other people are buying it. This is where we are now.

If you are a senior leader and your organisation has a culture where people feel they need to purchase a small piece of plastic to simulate continuous activity so nobody questions their commitment, you have a ser...