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:...
10 Jan, 2020 | Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development, Strategic planning and innovation, Team work
It’s that time of the year when most of us become introspective about the year ahead. Can I ask though, does that include some retrospection on 2019? What secret (or not so secret) messages did the universe deliver you in 2019? Knowledge is power and knowing this...
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...
28 Sep, 2019 | Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development
For five years I lived with 70 teenagers from towns and Aboriginal communities all over the Northern Territory. Those five years taught me 100x more about management than anything I had done to date. In that microcosm, it was well known which staff were liked and...
