Blame and shame hey?!
My good mate Dr Dan Diamond has seen tragedy. He has been the Medical Director for the First Response Units for natural disasters. He says…
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A good question to ask yourself: Where am I being the weak link?
My gorgeous friend, Cam Fink, was running a webcast last week and he shared a story that really landed for me. He was doing a…
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Talk about crazy times right?! There is no blueprint for this. We are all doing the best with what we have. It’s not just about…
Is what you know about your parents as important as what you learn from them?
Most of us have a little more home time on our hands with the Corona madness so using this time to reflect could be a…
Grab an Esky
With travel restrictions on the rise we need to think and do life differently. We can make this work for us. Many of the places…
What’s got a grip on you?
I was having lunch with a friend of mine JR a few of weeks ago. We were talking (well I was talking and he was…
A one off mentoring session to embed a feedback culture
We all get that people want more feedback. The high performers want it. The low performers need it. Your people may even have gone to…
I learned to swim by playing ‘drown the baby’
When I grew up in Beaumaris, a bayside suburb in Melbourne, we had a pool. From an early age we learned how to swim. My…
I thought that tapes in my head decided what dreams I would have
When I was a little tacker I used to have awful nightmares. Cobra snakes rising up in their attack mode to get me. Or being…
Barry Du Bois has incurable cancer
Barry Du Bois is an incredible human. You may know him from the TV show ‘The Living Room’. That’s where I grew my affection for…
How to lobby the Government for climate change action
If you would like your government to step up and change how they are currently dealing with climate change then we have made it easy…
Do you feel like you need to tolerate people?
Don’t some people just rub you up the wrong way?! It’s just hard being around them or you feel like you need to take deep…
An Introduction to ‘Play Your Part’
Your one thing this week is to educate yourself. The last time I watched a doco that made me feel physically nauseous to my core…
Play Your Part – Restoring hope for Australia
Our team are starting our year with hope rather than feeling hopeless. We are starting by helping rather than being helpless. Like you we…
Two amazing events in Feb 2020 for HR, Culture and L&D Leaders
To those of you who lead the people functions or know someone that does, we have two amazing events to set yourself up for the…
Evolve or dissolve is not an either or
I fall trap to binary thinking. So when I saw the quote; ‘Evolve or Dissolve’ in my social media feed I thought; “(Expletive) yeah!”. That…
I know I will live a long life
I fly a lot. So you’d think that I’d become used to turbulence and messages broadcasted that tell us that they won’t be serving meals…
Being sceptical is ok. Being right is not.
I am a trained optimist. Martin Seligman would call it ‘Learned Optimism’. Wrote a book all about it. I reckon my dear ol’ Mum role…
My son is not handing in his schoolwork
Jacko is doing Year 11 and one Year 12 subject – Methods (Maths) which has 2 exams. He decided not to hand in his final…
Conflict is not a dirty word
Can you hear the song by Skyhooks in the background; ‘Ego, is not a dirty word’. Careful. You’ll be showing your age 😉 Well conflict…
FREE WEBINAR: Creating the conditions for healthy conflict in teams
Click here to register immediately for this straight to the point, solutions orientated, webinar. Numbers are limited to 100 so it’s first in, best dressed. …
My 17 year old has worked out life
Jacko and I were in the car last week. He was driving. I always like it when he’s driving coz we tend to have awesome…
New programs n workshops, and some old, we reckon you’ll love!
Our team has been growing, and so has our expertise. So we wanted to let you know the stuff we can support your teams and…
Why is there no road rage in Bali?
I’ve just spent a week in Bali. Starting to write my next book; ‘Flawsome‘. Rewiring our relationship to feedback and to ourselves’. Bloody love it…