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Julia May

Madeleine is pretty typical of the leaders we work with. It's immediately clear she's whip-smart and super-humble. Her big brain can see solutions to big problems... but it also gets in her way as she over-thinks and second-guesses herself. And then gets stuck.

Visibility Co

"I’ve been working for months to gain buy-in on a program which could transform how we manage issues, but requires a leap in thinking. We have a meeting tomorrow to green-light the project but a senior executive of that branch just emailed saying I’ve overstepped and he’s recommending they pull the program. I feel completely blindsided. Should I go ahead with the meeting?”

Julia May

Most people will spend more than 90,000 hours, or one-third of their life, at work, so it makes sense to be intentional about where you put your precious time and energy. How do you do that? By being strategic about your career path.

Visibility Co

When burnout signals came knocking on our own doors halfway through 2022, we grimaced and knew we had to eat a big helping of our own cooking. Over six months, we did what we teach others to do: took the time to be visible to ourselves, reflecting on what’s important to us as individuals and collectively, in order to know what’s best for the team and business.

Visibility Co

We see everyday that every single one of us has barriers to visibility, and there are some common ones we hear regularly. The great thing is, when you're able to sit in a safe space with other purposeful people with huge potential, you get to hear that everyone has these hang-ups. We mean everyone.

Visibility Co.

One thing that consistently amazes us in the work we do is how even the most accomplished, capable leaders underestimate their own potential and influence. It often takes us holding a mirror up to them, and describing them back to themselves as we see them - or challenging them to be bolder in their visioning, for them to see what’s possible for their own impact and career.

Visibility Co.

Well, somehow June has rolled around again. And before the year races away, it’s important to carve out a little time to think about your career and how it’s tracking. And of course, if you manage a team, it’s the perfect time to think bigger-picture, and ask your people about their needs.

Visibility Co.

When you say the words ‘public sector’ to the average punter, it’s probably fair to assume that they might think of bureaucracy and conservatism before creativity or innovation. The reality, in our experience, is that the public sector is full of people who want bold change, and are capable of affecting it.

Visibility Co

We asked 183 male and female public sector leaders to name the three visible leaders they admired most. The results may surprise you.

Sarah Anderson

Whether trying to share your own story as an entrepreneur or thought leader, or leading a large organisation or team, you will face struggles and blind-spots when it comes to how you, or your organisation communicates. We’re all human. As strategists, advisors and storytellers, we see the same challenges emerge in every setting we work in, and we see the same good people making the same avoidable mistakes, with really unfortunate consequences. So we’ve compiled the five most common communications fails we see, and try to solve for, and our top tips for avoiding them.‍

Visibility Co

What would it look like if you shrugged off COVID and lockdown mindsets and mixed your workplace with a luxurious retreat ... and work-time with play-time; hustle-time with me-time? Probably something like our virtual leadership retreats.

Visibility Co

If there’s one thing we’ve seen get in the way of senior leaders managing change this year, it’s underestimating the relationship between core or organisational strategy and communications strategy - with huge impacts to time, resourcing and outcomes. Here’s how to make both strategies thrive so that the sum of the two becomes greater than the parts.

Visibility Co

We recently ran a Visibility for Influence program for some of the country's most eminent thinkers and researchers on just about every aspect of climate science you can imagine. So it stands to reason that one of their biggest worries, when it comes to visibility, is balancing their public and private reputations.

Visibility Co

Understanding different the needs and preferences of the different learning styles provides the key to crafting communications that drive connection.

Julia May

Visibility Co has embraced its role as a corporate activist, by going through a simple process linked to global goals. Find out how you can too.

Julia May

We’re noticing that people around us are tired and a bit listless... “languishing” is the word. But we need you not to languish. We need you to dip your toes back into the sense of possibility that sits within you, like a quiet pool of water.

Julia May

How much thinking have you done about your visibility: the impact you have when you interact with people and the change you could bring as a result of using your voice?

Julia May

One of the most common challenges we hear from leaders is being squeezed between the expectations and demands of senior leaders, while also needing to constructively manage and support a team. This contributes to a sense of paralysis and lack of progress. So how do you effectively manage up — maintaining visibility and a good working relationship with your boss, while simultaneously managing down — building a constructive culture and supporting your direct reports to lead?Here are our five tips that are as useful for managing up as they are for managing down… all ultimately supporting you to use your time and energy most effectively.

Julia May

How knowing your values, and others', can help you better navigate life and leadership in a pandemic (or any stressful situation).

Sarah Anderson

Say hello to GAMPER! A central piece of the visibility methodology, GAMPER is our tried-and-tested formula for supporting anyone to take a strategic approach to communications, influence and engagement. Here we give you the GAMPER cheat sheet.

Sarah Anderson

What do you think of when you hear the word “visibility”? 

Visibility Co

This all started with the simplest, and yet most complex of questions: “What do you do?”

Julia May

Vision is an integral part of the work we do; the cornerstone of every strategy we create, and it’s the one part of our own strategic process that we never scrimp on.

Julia May

This isn’t a story about grief or loss, it’s a story about the anchoring power of vision. Vision is the light that shines in the darkness, the clarion that calls you forward in good times and in bad.

Sarah Anderson

Some people are wired for purpose. Some people seek it. Everyone feels and does better when it’s present (or so the research tells us).Yet purpose comes with a lot of baggage and BS, doesn’t it? As one of the biggest buzzwords around, it needs some serious unpacking.

Sarah Anderson

Once upon a time, when Julia was a journalist, and Sarah was a communications strategist, they were just friends with big hearts and too many ideas.

Sarah Anderson

Purpose is the fuel for wellbeing, self-awareness, clear decision-making and meaningful impact. But it gets a bad name because for many, it feels hard to find. In this article, Visibility Co director Sarah Anderson spells out what it is.. and what it isn't ... and shares a step-by-step approach for eliciting yours.

Julia May

The invaluable experience of joining the founding team of Homeward Bound in 2015.

Sarah Anderson

When we identify the purpose of our visibility — what problem it's solving, how it acts as a platform for what we stand for — everything changes.

Julia May

No matter what your job title, you are a leader: you have more influence than you might realise.

Julia May

Life under COVID is showing us, in vivid technicolour, how values drive our decisions, judgements and behaviour.