Following a very stressful year last year I’m happy to say that I’m now through the other side and have learned ...
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Introducing ‘The SOCIAL™ Factor’ – Pioneering Social Leadership in Today’s Complex and Dynamic Business Landscape
How we lead our people determines the health and success of our organisations. The future of leadership is both ...
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The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Often go Awry – A Very Personal Story
A personal story about dealing with stress
Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace – a Preventative, Proactive Approach
Psychological health and safety in the workplace now have the same levels of recognition and importance as physical ...
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7 Lessons in Leadership, Teamwork and Resilience from Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
70 years ago today 29th may 1953, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit ...
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How to Handle Difficult Questions with Confidence when Presenting
A guide to the P.E.A.C.E. process for Fielding Curveball Questions Picture this… You’ve spent hours, days, ...
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A Christmas ‘To Do’ List with a Difference – from Doing to Being in 5 Easy Steps
What’s in a List? A friend recently shared this meme and it spoke volumes to me about how we can best serve ...
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Why fixing Dripping Taps and Squeaky Hinges can Trump a New Coffee Machine!
When leading people we can often get disgruntled by their quibbles, gripes and complaints but taking a moment to ...
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Shaking up Leadership – The Shifting Expectations of Employees on Leaders
The face of leadership is changing and the qualities desired of a leader are being driven by the people. It's time ...
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The Power and Importance of Insights
Last month, Tuesday, 22nd February 2022, was a special date; both a palindrome and an ambigram, meaning that it ...
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My Memorable ‘Aha’ Moment
The date was the 20th February 2002, so 2002 2002 and I was attending a spiritual workshop being facilitated by a ...
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How to Free Yourself from Thinking Traps this Festive Season
When our reserves are low, it’s easy to fall into thinking traps; we’re either ruminating on the past or ...
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Are you OK to have the Conversation? – a Callout to Leaders
This Thursday 9th September, employees all over Australia will be checking in with one another and asking “R ...
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Why am I so Tired? Exploring our Allostatic Load
Feeling ‘MEH’? Wherever you are reading this, it’s probably safe to assume that things are still very ...
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The Changing Face of Wellbeing at Work
Sometimes you have to look for the gift in the challenge. The particular gift I’d like to share in this article is ...
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Mastering your GAME PLAY this Holiday Season
How to make sure you leave 2020 and start 2021 in the best mindset possible. Learn to relax, play, be present and ...
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Time for a Selfie – Turning the Lens on Ourselves for Self-care
There has never been a time greater than now to prioritise some self-care and take a few practical steps to refresh ...
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Resilience Bites #10 – Getting Comfortable with Change
We’re starting to hear conversations about ‘getting back to normal’ and ‘returning to the old ways’. This is a ...
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Resilience Bites #9 – Perspective is Everything
Every day we are influenced by the media and risk losing perspective. How we view situations and our ability to ...
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Resilience Bites #8 – Masterfully Managing Distraction in Action
Are you noticing yourself getting more distracted? Working from home, you might be aware that you are making more ...
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Resilience Bites #7 – The Enduring Power of Gratitude
It has been very moving to see people beginning to go back to some parts of the lives they once knew and sharing ...
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Resilience Bites #6 – Smile Though Your Heart is Aching
Were the writers of the song 'Smile' right when they invited us to ‘smile though your heart is aching’? From a ...
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Resilience Bites #5 – Why Connection is Critical
Our need for connection is being challenged more than ever before - it is critical for us human beings to stay ...
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Resilience Bites #4 – Control the Controllables
When we see a social media post starting with ‘Good morning inmates’ we know that we are not alone in our sense of ...
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Resilience Bites #3 – Feeding Our Brain for Resilience
Our willpower is being tested to the hilt whilst we're in 'lockdown' resulting in the temptation to raid the fridge ...
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Resilience Bites #2 – How to Unleash our Superhero Brain
One of the critical skills of resilience lies between our ears, learning how to calm our instinctual emotional ...
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Resilience Bites #1 – Self-isolating doesn’t mean self-isolation
As Australia does what it needs to do to contain this pandemic, we are being told to self-isolate. A friend posted ...
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Change Management, Neuroscience and Toilet Rolls
An understanding as to how our brains are behaving when we rush to the supermarket to buy toilet rolls when the ...
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How to Grow Your Mindset and Thrive in the Silly Season
As we move towards the end of another busy year with all the excitement and challenges of ‘the silly season’, ...
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The Secret to Harnessing Team Diversity and Inclusion
Having a diverse team isn't enough, we need to actively focus on inclusion
What Exercise REALLY does to your Brain
Welcome to the final part of our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on Quality Sleep, click here and if you ...
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Are you feeding your Brain for Success?
Welcome to part 2 of 3 in our series on self-care. If you missed part 1 on quality sleep, it’s just below ...
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What is Poor quality Sleep Really Costing You?
We’re all aware of the need for regular exercise and good nutrition to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but possibly ...
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When Fairness is Compromised – Woe Betide!
There have been some interesting conversations in our household since the release of the Banking Royal Commission ...
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What’s so Funny about the Holiday Season?
“From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere.” Dr. Seuss We know that Christmas ...
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Turning Learning into Action with a little Help from our Brain
A focus on brain-friendly learning where we create learning environments conducive to remembering and applying what ...
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The Changing Face of Leadership in the 21st Century – where YOU become the Superhero
The 21st century leader is you and I, is anyone who belongs to an organisation and has a deep seated desire to be a ...
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The Resilient Leader – How your Inner Game affects your Outer Game
Being a resilient leader starts with applying the oxygen mask analogy that before we can help others we need to ...
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Leading Well by making the Unconscious Conscious
Let me start by getting you thinking with a little puzzle. A bat and ball together cost $1.10. The bat costs ...
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What if Workplace Conflict were Productive?
The typical manager spends 30-50% of his or her time dealing with workplace conflict (IML Australia). This equates ...
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