Articles
Dive into our latest articles exploring leadership, inclusion, and organisational development.
Leadership Communication Is Less About Talking and More About Attunement
Modern leadership communication depends as much on relational awareness and trust as it does on words or presentation skills. Leadership in Tune introduces the CRI Model™ to help leaders navigate communication, conflict, and organisational dynamics through a more human-centred and intentional approach.
How to Improve Emotional Intelligence in Leadership Without More Training
Many leadership books for managers focus on strategy, delegation, productivity, or motivation. While these skills remain important, modern leadership increasingly requires something deeper: the ability to lead relationships, not just processes.
Best Leadership Books for Managers in 2025 & 2026: The Rise of Relational Leadership
Leadership in Tune explores relational leadership through the Conscious Relational Impact (CRI) Model™, positioning leadership as something shaped in the space between people rather than through control alone. The book examines how trust, communication, psychological safety, and human dynamics influence leadership effectiveness, team performance, and organisational culture in increasingly complex workplaces.
Why Most Leadership Books Focus on Control Instead of Connection
Modern leadership increasingly depends on trust, communication, and relational awareness rather than authority or control alone. Leadership in Tune explores how leadership succeeds or fails in the space between people, offering a more human-centred approach to leadership and organisational performance.
Why Emotional Intelligence at Work Does Not Always Improve Performance
Emotional intelligence supports effective leadership when it is applied through clear communication, accountability, feedback, and inclusive practice, not just awareness or empathy alone. The article explores how emotional intelligence becomes most effective when it helps leaders balance people, performance, relationships, and organisational systems together.
Navigating and Reducing Bias: The Workplace Experiences of Black Women and Black Female Leaders
Workplace bias against Black women affects hiring, promotion, and performance in organisations. This article explores intersectional bias, leadership challenges, and how organisations can redesign systems to align inclusion with organisational performance.
White Supremacy Culture in Organisations: Leadership, Systems and Inclusion
In this article we discuss:
White supremacy culture in organisations shapes leadership, decision-making, and definitions of performance
Interlocking systems of oppression including ableism, classism, patriarchy, and capitalism reinforce everyday workplace norms
Common characteristics such as urgency, perfectionism, and individualism directly impact inclusion and organisational effectiveness
Inclusion needs (access, space, opportunity, allowance, representation, language, respect, and support) provide a practical framework for change
Inclusive leadership integrates people, systems, and performance to create more effective and sustainable organisations
The Progress Triangle
What this article covers:
What the Drama Triangle looks like in workplace settings
Why it impacts leadership, performance, and team dynamics
How the Progress Triangle™ reframes these patterns for organisations
Practical ways to shift how you lead and relate at work
“How do I choose a diversity & inclusion training provider for my organisation?”
This article explores:
Why this is a strategic leadership and organisational effectiveness decision
What to evaluate in a diversity and inclusion training provider
How to assess behavioural and organisational impact
Why inclusion needs to connect with performance, not sit alongside it
How to choose a provider that changes practice, not just awareness
If you are currently reviewing diversity and inclusion training options, this article will help you evaluate what is most likely to create meaningful change in leadership, behaviour, and organisational practice.
Why Empathy is Often Problematic in Leadership
What’s in this article?
when empathy helps leadership and when it starts to reduce effectiveness
the difference between empathy, compassion, empathy fatigue, and compassion fatigue
what too much and too little empathy look like in workplace leadership
what the research says about emotional regulation, boundaries, and perspective-taking
why leaders need to work with both people and performance at the same time