Last month, Tuesday, 22nd February 2022, was a special date; both a palindrome and an ambigram, meaning that it ...
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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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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 #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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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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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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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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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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Train your Brain to Thrive this Holiday Season
Our brain is like Velcro for bad news and Teflon for good. From evolution, we are programmed to default to the ...
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Can I give you some Feedback?
When we are asked by someone if we would like feedback, our brains default to the negative and assume it’s going to ...
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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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Why Storytelling can be a Leader’s Secret Weapon
When we listen to stories we are transported, not just because we are in a different state of brainwave, but ...
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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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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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How to Foster Curiosity in Leadership
How high does curiosity rank in your business or personal values? How do you develop the traits and attributes of ...
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Creating a Culture where no-one wants to Retire
Much research has been done on happiness and meaning at work by Barbara Fredrickson of the University of North ...
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Inspiring 21st Century Leadership with the i4 Neuroleader Tool
A Message for Learning and Development Professionals The Changing Face of Developing Leaders Over the last few ...
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Why your first ‘gut’ Decision could be your Best – Intuition vs Analysis
I’ve just finished listening to a great podcast with Dr Jonathan Schooler from the University of California ...
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Why it’s Time to Take Positivity Seriously
Picture this; it’s the end of your working day and on the whole it’s been a great day. You started with a friendly ...
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