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...
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...
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...
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:...
I was speaking with a client recently. He has a staff member he is contemplating performance managing. Not a process anyone enjoys or encourages. My corporate coach ears pricked up when my client said, “I should have listened to my guts when they said blah, blah,...
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...