17 Mar Message to a Leader
This week I was speaking to a leader of a team I had worked with extensively in the last couple of years and all the measures and growth are tracking really well. They called and asked...
17 Feb How to Stand out, Fit in and Be Yourself
Have you ever struggled to align your goals to stand out, fit in and be yourself? Increasingly the clients I speak to do. Finding the balance or the sweet spot in the Venn diagram can feel like conflicting goals or competing goals. A team or organisational...
08 Oct Inspo From Rome
Life endures. That's what it does. Right now, this feels like an unprecedented crisis. Nearly a million people have died worldwide from a virus for which there may or may not be a vaccine depending on who you ask.In the midst of this pandemic, the Russians poisoned...
27 Aug Everybody’s trying to sell me something but no one wants to look after me
Customers and consumers often complain that companies don’t listen, don’t understand and don’t empathise (properly).“Everybody’s trying to sell me something but no one wants to look after me!!”There is growing evidence of confusion in organisations about the digitisation of customer experiences and how to authentically...
12 Aug If language shapes reality, what are you talking about?
Just how much impact language has on the way we think is challenging to actually determine. What we do know from countless research papers is that language focuses our perception, attention and thought on specific aspects of the world. I don’t subscribe to the 'think and...
07 May Who do you choose to be at this time?
There are lots of people guessing and predicting the future. Some of those predictions are a bit weird quite frankly… and some are more obvious, like the new…
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09 Apr How two seven year olds got it right
The life lessons are coming from all sorts of places right now. There are no predetermined ways of responding to the complexity we are in and we are all lear…
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19 Mar Tidy your office and other tips
A few things we learnt this week from the Gram team… Position your zoom camera carefully – backgrounds are revealing! Norman Swan (ABC radio health report)…
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05 Dec A good plan is the cornerstone to success
Most people avoid planning because they don’t like having excessive goals that may overwhelm them or they fear thinking too far ahead ….there are many reason…
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19 Jun Don’t wait to be inspired, be inspirational
Waiting to be inspired by others can be a long and sometimes fruitless task. Waiting for others to be inspiring is a recipe for disappointment. Leaders are required to be inspiring....