13 Jul, 2020 | Engaging staff, Strategic planning and innovation, Team work
When Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he enforced a rule that teams had to be small. “If it can’t be fed with two large pizzas, the team is too big.” Harvard psychologists agree – “Big teams usually wind up just wasting everybody’s time.” In the aftermath of the...
18 Feb, 2020 | Strategic planning and innovation, Team work
The 2020 Closing the Gap report was released last week. It shows that less than one third of the Federal Government’s targets have been achieved. In some areas, Indigenous Australia is losing ground. Interesting timing, coinciding with the Alice Springs launch of the...
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...
18 May, 2019 | Performance management that actually works, Team work
Say I’m serving in the final moments of an evenly matched grand slam tennis final and what I do now could decide the match. I make an unforced error. If I’m not careful about my self-talk, it turns into two errors, then three and so on. It’s the same for your...
13 Apr, 2019 | Difficult conversations, including with your boss, Team work, Understanding people and how it can be your greatest success
If you’re old enough, you will remember how feedback used to be delivered; it was called the “shit sandwich”. At a ratio of 2:1, managers were schooled to give team members two compliments to every sentence that started with the word “but…”. Best practice has upped...
