One of the biggest challenges currently facing leaders is effective leadership of virtual teams and virtual organisations. With people working from home and snap lockdowns being the current reality in Australian life, this is something I am often asked. It’s easy to blame factors of physical distance for the friction and lack of cohesion experienced
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Thursday marks the first day of Financial Year 2022. Happy New Financial Year! As you reflect on FY2021, what do you regret? The things you did? Or the things you didn’t do? The conversations you had? Or the conversations you didn’t have? Adam Grant, in ‘Originals’, asserts that ‘research shows that the mistakes we regret
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One of my favourite TV programs recently has been ‘Old People’s Home For 4 Year Olds’. It’s part-documentary, part-reality TV following a social experiment bringing older people and 4-year-olds together in a structured learning environment for ‘learning, connection and friendship’. While this program is about many things, there are strong themes of courage. Courage for
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It’s an important change initiative. As a leadership team you have discussed it from all angles and are ready to implement. You communicate the vision and the plan to the rest of the organisation with passion, and then follow up with supporting messages over the following weeks. Nothing changes. People don’t make the shifts you
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May 1 was a normal Saturday… I was horse riding with my daughters late in the afternoon when things went horribly wrong. The horse took off, did a few crazy swerves and I fell, landing heavily on my left shoulder. Lying awkwardly on the ground, I tried to assess whether I was just badly winded,
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We don’t trust CEOs! Only 48% of Australian’s trust CEOs to ‘do what is right’, according to the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer* measured in November 2020. (The good news is that this is up 9 points from the 2019 score of 39%.) Before you say ‘I could have guessed that!’, the Barometer also highlights a
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We are all aware of the concept of bias, especially given the themes of gender and racial bias currently in the media. Have you ever stopped to think about many other ways that bias can impact your decision-making? Jasmine had given a lot of thought to the challenge at hand. As the CEO, she had
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Many people are excited to come back to the office and work together with ‘real’ people for at least part of their working week. And for some teams this reconnection and reintegration is more challenging than expected. People have responded to the COVID19 world in so many different ways, taking a toll on individuals, teams
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Over the years, I have learned that as a trainer, one of my greatest skills is ‘state management’ – the ability to choose my emotional state based on what is needed by the group. This may not be the state I would be in ‘naturally’ in that moment. Can I give you a personal example
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Most of the leaders I have spoken to so far in 2021 are dealing with the challenges of a return to the workplace, typically in some sort of hybrid way at least for the foreseeable future. All face one confronting truth as they lead a reintegration – the tone they set has a strong influence
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