How to give feedback: Be empathic, specific, and watch your body language
Feedback is essential to growth, but it’s not always easy to give. This second of a three-part series explores why tone and gestures matter just as much as words. ...
December 11, 2025 • by Charlotte Søby Vestergaard in Leadership skills • 8 min read
Sanofi’s Global Head of Digital Markets, Charlotte Vestergaard, on the courage and connections, discipline and passion it takes to pursue a non-linear leadership career, and how her passion for pharma sits at...
Continue readingDecember 2, 2025 • by Winter Nie in Leadership skills • 8 min read
Feedback is essential to growth, but it’s not always easy to give. This second of a three-part series explores why tone and gestures matter just as much as words. ...
September 4, 2025 • by Robert Vilkelis in Leadership skills • 4 min read
Earn the right to be heard by blending credibility with relatability, meeting audiences where they are, and building rapport through shared stories....
August 14, 2025 • by Susanne May in Leadership skills • 4 min read
Stepping into leadership for the first time? Discover 5 essential lessons to build trust, lead with clarity, and create lasting impact from day one....
June 19, 2025 • by Alyson Meister in Leadership skills • 7 min read
Progressing to senior leadership means upgrading your mindset and approach with self-belief and courage. Here’s how. ...
April 29, 2025 • by Michael D. Watkins in Leadership skills • 7 min read
Use this diagnostic tool and roadmap to rebuild trust and confidence within dysfunctional teams – the first crucial steps toward a future of high performance....
September 13, 2024 • by Tania Lennon, Misiek Piskorski in Leadership skills • 9 min read
Long-trusted ways of leadership talent development are outmoded. Is it time for a radical rethink?...
September 11, 2024 • by Sarena Lin , Tania Lennon in Leadership skills • 7 min read
How leaders can retain cutting-edge expertise as the lifecycle of skills shrinks....
August 22, 2024 in Leadership skills • 8 min read
Thinkers50 experts Julie Lythcott-Haims, Lenny Mendonca, and Sanyin Siang share tips on coping with work-related stress with Morra Aarons-Mele, author of The Anxious Achiever and host of the podcast of the same name....
March 18, 2024 • by Ben Bryant in Leadership skills • 9 min read
With around 30 years’ experience in different executive roles, Ernst and Young veteran Janet Truncale will become the firm’s first female CEO in July. As she makes this historic career shift, it...
February 27, 2024 in Leadership skills • 9 min read • Podcast available
Henkel CEO Carsten Knobel tells IMD President Jean-François Manzoni why he has remained laser focused on implementing its purposeful growth agenda and why the company decided to exit Russia....
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