6 Jul, 2020 | Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Strategic planning and innovation, Tips and Tools
Not Happy, Jan! Sitting in my home office in the burbs of Alice Springs on a glorious Thursday morning, a car pulls into my driveway. It was an unnamed gentlemen from a Northern Territory department. Apparently, he had come to give me a lesson on how NOT to...
28 Jun, 2020 | Change management that wins friends, Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development, Tips and Tools
If you’ve been following my series of posts on how to talk to colleagues about the social issues currently flooding the world, you’ll know that supporting everyone to speak openly about discrimination and marginalisation encourages employees to be authentic. Employees...
22 Jun, 2020 | Change management that wins friends, Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development, Tips and Tools
Put your hand up if you DON’T want to feel a sense of being understood and belonging? Silence? Thought so! This is one of the reasons why the #BLM movement has gathered such strong momentum. The way George Floyd died sparked empathy, which led to an understanding by...
16 Jun, 2020 | Change management that wins friends, Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development, Tips and Tools
A recent, global study on people who felt they had been discriminated against found that 38% thought it was culturally taboo to discuss their situation. The study also found that silencing their experience made employees who had been discriminated against were:...
6 Feb, 2020 | Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Must Haves for New Managers, Performance management that actually works
I was talking with a client recently about a staff member he is contemplating performance managing. Not a process that anyone enjoys. My ears pricked up when my client said, “I should have listened to my guts when she (my client’s direct report) said blah, blah,...
14 Nov, 2019 | Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development, Team work
I have shared these words in a number of places this week, including in the media, in response to the omnipresent divide being driven through Alice Springs. The current unrest has come after the death of an Aboriginal man in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community...
