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.

CEO Advisory

The 3 principles to level up your leadership

CEO AdvisoryRebecca Houghton

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...

CEO Insider

The key to re-building confidence in leadership in 2022

CEO InsiderRebecca Houghton

Even the most progressive organisations are struggling to develop the impact of their midlevel leaders - their B-Suite – at the moment. As a result, these organisations have increasing issues with engagement, succession planning, performance or change. The B-Suite is increasingly the fulcrum upon which corporate performance balances – they...

Tech and Innovation

The reason leadership development isn’t working

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

As Simon Sinek writes in Start with Why, 'Some in management positions operate as if they are in a tree of monkeys. They make sure that everyone at the top of the tree looking down sees only smiles. But all too often, those at the bottom looking up see only asses'....

CEO Journal

Why Fear can be a (good) leaders best friend

CEO JournalRebecca Houghton

Leadership can be lonely. It can also be unrelenting and thankless. But at the moment it can also be fearful. Leaders have had the toughest two years of their careers so far, and it’s about to get tougher. None of us have ever led through times like these. There is...

CEO Insider

Why collaboration is harder than it sounds

CEO InsiderRebecca Houghton

Did you know there’s two definitions of collaboration in the Oxford dictionary? The first is “the action of working with someone to produce something”. Which is what we mean when we say we want collaboration. The second is “traitorous communication with an enemy”. Which is sometimes how it feels when...

Tech and Innovation

Stuck in the lift with your CEO? Here’s 4 ways to make it count

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

Imagine being stuck in the lift with your CEO. I’m not talking about door-won’t-open, claustrophobic and SES-rescue stuck, but stuck together for a few floors in opportunity-filled but probably uncomfortable silence. Unless you know your CEO, it’s likely that you’ll either treat them like any other work-stranger or you’ll be...

Tech and Innovation

The simple trick to a winning business case

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

The ability to ace a business case is a crucial skill in the toolkit of leaders in today’s world of work; yet it’s something that leaders typically have no exposure to until suddenly it’s a high-stakes, must-not-fail case. High impact mid-level leaders - the B-Suite – are increasingly leaned upon...

Executive Insider

The pathways and pressure-points of influence

Executive InsiderRebecca Houghton

There is a plethora of information out there about how to influence – and yet, according to our research, influence is still one of the top three most sought-after traits by leaders looking to develop their impact. The leaders who most aspire to having more influence are those who have...

CEO Insights

What really motivates employees?

CEO InsightsRebecca Houghton

I often hear clients ask ‘how do we motivate our employees’. I think we are looking at employee motivation from the wrong end of the telescope. Why are we looking for the magic bean of motivation instead of wondering why our employees lost motivation in the first place? Surely that’s...

Tech and Innovation

How middle managers can influence up at work

Tech and InnovationRebecca Houghton

Most of us dislike the term 'managing up' intensely; for many of us it conjures up images of greasy-pole climbers and upwardly-mobile politico types. We don't like to think of ourselves in this way. Instead, we like to think our work will speak for itself or we believe it’s our...

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