When leading people we can often get disgruntled by their quibbles, gripes and complaints but taking a moment to ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Counting (on) The Cost of Trust
From a work perspective, a ‘psychologically safe’ workplace is defined as 'a climate of interpersonal trust and ...
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3 Key Strategies for Thriving in the Ever-Changing World of Being an Author
This is an article I wrote for www.thecreativepenn.com Every day we hear of new strategies for writing faster or ...
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Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence
Mind Full or Mindful? Creating the Gift of Presence As the clocks tick towards the end of 2016 and the beginning of ...
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Are you Paying Attention or Paying for a Lack of it?
Our ability to maintain focus and attention relies on our ability to manage our thinking and look after our brain. ...
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Getting to Grips with Unconscious bias
Unconscious bias seems to be getting a lot of airplay these days in the field of diversity and inclusion. So just ...
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Expand your Knowledge with some Inspiring Summer Reading
Often when I speak or run development programmes I’m asked what books I might recommend – therein lies ...
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How to Increase your Personal Engagement at Work
Strategies to increase genuine engagement at work so that you remain focused, attentive and productive and enjoy ...
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How well do you handle Rejection?
Strategies to help you deal effectively with rejection and move on and up so you return to productivity as soon as ...
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Exploring the Predictable Dynamics of Change
There is so much that we can predict about how we react or respond to change and once we know this we can change ...
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How will you celebrate success at work at the end of today?
It’s Friday, many people in the workplace might feel like they’ve been swimming through treacle since returning ...
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Why Zebras* (and probably Reindeer) won’t be stressing this Christmas
Understanding your Brain on Stress How many of us are worrying about organising Christmas, stressing about ...
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The Key to Building a Tribe from a Team through Social Capital
What makes a good team great? What makes one team gel and another continually end up in conflict? When pondering ...
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Strategies for Building Certainty in Chaos and Change
When our core needs are not met we go into aversive or negative stress, when we go into stress we cannot think ...
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Gratitude in the Workplace and why it Matters
Gratitude underpins resilience and our life satisfaction levels (happiness). When we are faced with setbacks and ...
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