Jasmina is a senior leader in a large government enterprise. COVID has been challenging, the work feels unrelenting, and now a significant restructure has been announced that may result in job losses. She is holding off overwhelm (only just), and here’s her strategy. ‘When I’m really tense and I’m not sure how well I’m handling
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...
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
...