We are all aware that mental health is a growing challenge we face, particularly at work. As a manager, whether we like it or not, mental health issues don’t get left at the front gate in the morning. If the phrases people management, productivity and strategic...
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:...
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...
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...