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The Advantages of Playing to Your Strengths
It is a cliché to ‘Know your strengths’. We see it emblazoned across LinkedIn platforms, job advertisements, newsletters and other media. Leaders use it. Sports coaches scream, ‘Play to your strengths’, and we all smile and nod as though we know what they are talking...
Why is change so hard?
I received an email recently from someone I don’t know very well directing me to do something. Not asking, but telling. It was curt and commanding and it made me bristle. It also made me dig my heals in and not want to do what I was being asked. There were no...
Seven Ways to Model Safe & Effective Leadership
Are you a safe and effective leader? Safe and Effective Leaders have a dual focus on people and outcomes. They understand that the two have a symbiotic relationship and the needs of both must be met. Safe and Effective Leaders step up to the plate to have those...
Why Having an ‘Open Door Policy’ Isn’t Always a Good Thing – Rafael’s Story
Rafael was the school principal of a large metropolitan primary school. Every day Rafael would have a stream of students, parents, teachers and support staff entering his office for queries, guidance or to let off steam. He prided himself on his “open door...
Wellbeing Washing; All Talk, No Action
I’m sure there’s a group of creatives in a room somewhere coming up with snappy phrases for modern workplace woes - quiet quitting, well-being washing etc etc... However we want to label it, this post below by Adam Morris speaks to the crux of the matter in that if we...
“My boss’s capacity for work is extraordinary. But she seems to think that’s normal and expects us all to function in the same way.” – Workload Management Tips
“My boss’s capacity for work is extraordinary. But she seems to think that’s normal and expects us all to function in the same way.” It’s easy to fall into this trap as a leader, and I’ve certainly been guilty of this in my early leadership career, not realizing my...
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