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    Assumicide: How guilty are you?

    Last weekend when facilitating a leadership retreat in Warrnambool for Leadership Great South Coast, I was introduced to the term ‘assumicide’. My workshop participants talked about assumicide in the context of leadership and: The dangers of ‘first impressions’ The potential damage done by demographic stereotyping Assumptions we make about someone’s background or their capacity to […]

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    Purpose: Are your people shovelling dirt or uncovering history?

      There’s a lot of talk about engagement, and the enhanced productivity that is unleashed through an engaged workforce. I think engagement has a lot to do with purpose, and our connection to ‘why’. Typically, the closer we are to the top of the organisational hierarchy, the more we understand the purpose, and how our work […]