Niki Corbishley, Noo Coaching

Hi Reader A few years ago, I remember sitting in my car after work with tears rolling down my face. The strange thing? Nothing dramatic had happened. I’d led meetings that day, made decisions, supported people...I'd ticked everything off my list. From the outside, it had been a good day. But inside, I’d spent hours questioning myself. Replaying conversations and wondering whether I’d said the right thing. Focusing on the one piece of challenging feedback instead of everything I’d done well....

Have you ever worked in an organisation with a toxic leader Reader? The kind of leader who tells you how to do your job… even though you were hired because you’re the expert. The one who constantly undermines your role, questions your decisions, goes behind your back, and makes choices that directly affect your work without even speaking to you. That kind of leader. I experienced it in two different organisations. You could say I jumped out of the frying pan and straight into the fire. What I...

Hi Reader, This month I did something I haven't done before. I co-wrote the Blog with someone else. Debbie Bailey is a finance coach and over the past few months, as we kept bumping into the same theme from different directions, it became clear this was something to write and share together . The July edition is called The Cost of Silence. It's about what happens when financial pressure lands inside an organisation and nobody - not the team, not the managers absorbing it, not the leaders...

I recently appeared on the Executive Grooves Podcast, and I ended up talking about my guilty 80's secret Reader Its not often (or ever?) that a leadership podcast chat starts with talking about the music that you listened to as a teenager - so I found myself revealing things that may resonate with you: 80's pop bands learning the lyrics to songs from Smash Hit (which they never got right by the way!) tapping the charts every Sunday, trying to hit pause before the DJ talked over the end. Oh...

Hi Reader, A few weeks ago, I sat down to write this month's edition of Insights Into Leadership. I'd wanted to write it for a long time. I knew the topic mattered. I knew it was showing up repeatedly in conversations with senior leaders, and I knew there was something underneath it that wasn't being talked about enough. What I didn't expect was what happened when I finished writing it. I cried. Not because writing it was difficult, but because it named something I had experienced myself. And...

Hi Reader, I hope you had a chance to relax over the long weekend. We had family over and I spent a lot of time gardening. My 'gardening' consists of keeping on top of the weeding, but after success of growing herbs last year I've bought some seeds for this year. It's now Monday and I wanted to get my May blog out to you now, as this week is a 3 day working week for me, which already looks jam packed. But it's all good as we're off on holiday soon. This month's blog is about authentic...

The Part No One Names. Hi Reader, There is a version of this that rarely gets described properly. From the outside, everything still looks as it should. You are performing, delivering, and continuing to meet the expectations of a senior role - you remain the person others rely on. And yet, internally, something has shifted. Not in a way that is dramatic or immediately visible, but enough that you notice it in quieter moments. Decisions that once felt straightforward now take longer....