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From leadership and company culture to self-improvement and current affairs, our blog offers practical tips and advice to help you learn and grow.
Discover how to become a more effective leader, build a thriving team, and achieve your ambitions. Among other things our blogs can help you to:
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Karen writes about things that inspire her in a hope they will inspire you too. Ultimately she’s strive to help you to become a more effective leader, a successful individual, and a well-rounded citizen of the world.
Influencing Psychological Safety When Driving Change
Recently I had the pleasure of facilitating a session for the Leadership Collective Chief People Officer forum, about the importance of psychological safety in driving change. There is no doubt that when people feel safe to speak up, share their ideas, and take risks, they are entirely more likely to be engaged and committed to the change process.
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Navigating the Intersection of Policy and Compassion
In a recent episode of our podcast, Work Savvy, I shared in our WTF at Work segment the story of a Queensland bus driver who found himself at the harsh intersection of company policy and moral duty. After intervening to defend a young passenger from an assault, the driver was terminated from his position for allegedly breaching the company’s policies.
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Staying Focused in a Busy Job with Loads of Competing Priorities
In today's fast-paced work environment, it's not uncommon for people to find themselves submerged in a sea of tasks, with each wave threatening to pull our focus away from essential priorities. The constant influx of emails, unexpected meetings, and looming deadlines can make it challenging to stay on track. It’s a challenge most of the leaders we work with face.
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Why Visualization Is a Powerful Tool for Building Confidence and Enabling Success
As a Martial Artist one of tools we used to build confidence and courage, as well as ready ourselves for competing was visualization. Putting it simply, visualization works because of its ability to tap into our brain's intricate networks, priming it for success and influencing our emotions, decisions, and actions.
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Making Remote Working Work
Remote work has now found its firm footing in the business world. As a manager, optimizing the productivity, communication, and well-being of remote teams can feel like a big challenge. However, with the right strategies in place, it's possible to create a thriving remote work environment. Here are ten steps you can take to make remote working work well for your team.
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Strong Foundations
It’s quite extraordinary how one 'aha' moment can have a massive impact on our thinking, emotions and actions. The most recent example for me happened during a three-day immersive development retreat.
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Motivation Myth
While having lunch with my son recently he proclaimed, “Mum, I think motivation is a myth”. He went on to explain that he doesn’t believe motivation is what enables us to get started, but rather a feeling that builds when we achieve forward momentum or a sense of progress.
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Giving Yourself the Best Chance of Success Each Day
Success doesn’t come easily. No matter how much it might seem like some people have it lucky and seem to achieve everything they want to, the simple reality is everyone needs to do the work needed to land in the places that they want to.
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Shifting Culture Webinar
Register now for our last free webinar for 2021. Come and join us! TOMORROW - Wednesday 15th of December, at 12pm AEDT.
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CEO Fires 900 Staff on a Zoom Call...
In case you’ve missed it in the news, the latest staggeringly poor example of business leadership is brought to us courtesy of Better.com CEO Vishal Garg.
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Assessing Character Through the Hiring Process
Getting hiring decisions wrong is an undeniably costly exercise. The drain on time, energy, morale and drag on progress can be immense.
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Diagnosing Performance Issues
Register now for our fourth webinar. Come and join us! Wednesday 24th of November, at 12 pm AEST.
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Just Deal with It Already!
Contemplate for a moment on how often you avoid dealing with the problems you need to. Now ask yourself how well that typically turns out - for you, your team, or even your business. In my experience avoidance simply prolongs agony and often makes things worse. All too often the people I work with hesitate to address issues and ultimately pay a price. Energy, time, money and momentum are all lost when roadblocks to success are tolerated, ignored or simply put in the ‘too hard to deal with right now’ basket.
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Are You Biting Off More Than You Can Chew?
While working with a client recently he said to me “we’re like a python that has swallowed a cow”. Apart from making me hearty laugh, his comment also made me reflect on all the people and businesses I work with that fit that description.
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