Rebecca Houghton

Rebecca Houghton, author of ‘Impact: 10 Ways to Level up your Leadership’ ($29.95), is a Leadership and Talent Expert and founder of BoldHR. Rebecca builds B-Suite leaders with C-Suite impact by working at an organisational, team and individual level. Her passion is helping to evolve how leaders think, take action and relate to others, working with leaders and leadership teams to achieve greater impact.

Rebecca Houghton is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow her on LinkedIn.

C-Suite Advisory

Why middle-management power-play is not a bad thing

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Advisory

Mid-level leaders are increasingly becoming recognised as the ‘power centre’ of organisational culture and performance. As organisations become faster and more complex, it is inevitable that responsibility be devolved. Put simply, decisions need to be made closer to the action, which means middle managers need to be empowered to make...

C-Suite Insider

Employee disconnect is at an all time high – here’s what to do

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Insider

Employers are out of touch with employee expectations. Well, stop the press. I’m fairly sure that this has been going on since the industrial revolution. Of course they are – there’s a natural disconnect between senior executive priorities and the priorities of the workforce. In fact, their roles, reporting lines...

C-Suite Agenda

Why the ‘B Suite’ is most at risk of burnout, and what leaders can do to stop it

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Agenda

Middle management is in trouble. These leaders (I refer to them as the B-Suite) are typically too senior for training but too junior for executive coaching. They are responsible for bridging the gap between strategy and organizational capacity, and they act as the eyes and ears of the executive, and...

C-Suite Insider

Are you overlooking the powerful role your B suite play in retention?

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Insider

B-Suite Leaders are the modern middle manager, evolving from order-taker to impact-maker as businesses become flatter and decision making is devolved further down the hierarchy. They are experienced leaders who are too junior to be 'in the tent' but carry the lion's share of responsibility for culture and performance. They...

Future of Work

What does employee empowerment really mean?

Rebecca HoughtonFuture of Work

Empowerment is not just delegation (which is really the act of acting on your behalf), nor is it working with you on something (that’s collaboration), nor being supervised (that’s training), nor being told to own your decisions (that’s accountability). True empowerment literally means you have to give some of your...

C-Suite Lifestyle

Why it’s up to leaders to reconnect the disconnect

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Lifestyle

At the end of 2021, BoldHRTM conducted two polls to gauge the sentiment of professionals on the biggest talent priorities facing business in 2022. Conducted in partnership with Maxxia, 300+ HR Leaders responded that the great resignation followed by staff wellbeing were their greatest priorities. The same question put to...

Critical thinking

Why the great resignation can be stopped with a great conversation

Rebecca HoughtonCritical thinking

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market...

Critical thinking

How to be strategic without slowing down

Rebecca HoughtonCritical thinking

Ask any C-Suite leader how often they get to focus on the ‘The Strategy’ and they’ll tell you about 5-10 days a year. Ask them how often they are being strategic and they’ll look at you funny – it’s every minute of every day. I work with the C-Suite and...

Future of Work

7 ways to get your boss to help build your brand

Rebecca HoughtonFuture of Work

Your personal brand is like your reputation – it’s what people say about you when you’re not in the room. But what if you are never ‘in the room’ and people don’t talk about you because they don’t know you exist? How do you raise your reputation and get noticed...

C-Suite Advisory

The 3 principles to level up your leadership

Rebecca HoughtonC-Suite Advisory

Mid-level leadership is tough. It was tough in 2018, when the international Ahlvik study proved that mid-level leaders experience stress and burnout rates far beyond those of their boss or their teams. In my more recent work with thousands of mid-level leaders – who we call the B-Suite – I...

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