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Resilience – Another Take
We know resilience is something you can develop within yourself. Our thoughts, our emotions can be elevated, we can practice mindfulness routines and we can develop our inner strength, our bounce-back. But is it all enough when we do not exactly know what it is we are preparing for?
Bruce Pascoe’s Bloke, and Meaning Purpose and Direction
This is a tribute to reading fiction and its power to enliven in us meaning, purpose and direction; one of six main dimensions known to drive executive wellbeing, per the Global Leadership Wellbeing Framework. In his novel, Bloke, Bruce Pascoe’s lead character is a...
Resolving Polarities: a little piece of me must die
David Bowie's This is not America a song for the ages that appears particularly poignant at this time. The numbers don’t lie – it’s so close to 50/50. You would be hard pressed to find a more impressive example of division in the world at this time and so...
The case for accessing Resilience and Equanimity in current times
When we learn how to be resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully board spectrum of the human experience – Jaeda DeWalt The COVID 19 pandemic is creating prolonged upheaval throwing us into a world of chaos - because life as it was, is rapidly changing...
Restructure or not – have your employees leaving as a future brand advocates!
Many people are currently undergoing radical career changes, some voluntarily, others involuntarily. As organisations redefine their future, their aspirations, and even their purpose, some of them need to revisit their resourcing models under the current...
Today’s dilemma: Feeling comfortable with being uncomfortable
Would Burke and Wills have set out from Melbourne in 1860 if they had known how the expedition ended? What would they have done differently? Would they have gone at all? Burke and Wills achieved the expedition’s goal - to reach the Gulf of Carpentaria…. but did not...
A good ending makes for a good new beginning
Get in touch to talk about our Executive Transition, Outplacement and Leadership and Team development services The well documented employee lifecycle speaks to the different phases people move through within an organisation – from recruiting to onboarding, developing,...
How Thriving Teams Reframe Conflict
Now more than ever we need conflict in teams. Good and bad ideas alike, tossed around, embraced, debated, built upon and re-formed resulting in an idea, concept or solution that no individual could have come up with. This is the essential ingredient of innovation. The...
Attention Leaders: Conditions Of Re-Entry
As many organisations contemplate a return to the physical workspace, new questions are arising from staff and leaders alike. One thing is for sure: we are not returning to the workplaces that we left! Pre-COVID, flexible working arrangements have been on the agenda...