Here is a short clip of Simon Sinek, talking about what makes teams high performing via a Navy SEALs analogy. You can catch it here. I’m still thinking about it because the team I was working with last week really impressed me with how strongly united it was around a shared WHY. And it was
I was talking the other day with a client who is struggling to keep their people. No new hire seems to make it past two years in the organisation and they can’t find the right people to replace them. It seems like not a day goes by without a conversation about attracting, retaining, and supporting a
Last week I got an email from a client about ways to address time management issues they were experiencing with a team member. This team member… Tended to get really enthusiastic about minute details Didn’t know when to say NO and set boundaries to protect their time Would then get so overwhelmed that the team
I thought it was just me. Moving at a different pace than I do most autumns, struggling to gain momentum, stuck somewhere between tired, overwhelmed and wafting.. But then I started talking to people around me and realised that many others felt the same. Maybe you too? There are ways to address this, but you
How are you? And I mean really how are you? I for one feel like the past couple of years have brought on tons of reflection. And I know I’m not the only one. Have you been thinking, dreaming and scheming about what you want your ‘normal’ to look like? We’ve been talking about a
This is a photo of our dog, Ollie, after standing on the sprinkler and rolling on our scorched lawns, when we returned from our family holiday in Queensland. Cute, isn’t it? Nothing unusual about this photo. Except…Ollie looks like a different dog from the one we left in December. He grew SO much in the
When I stepped into my first leadership role, as the leader of an adventure travel company, I thought I was doing pretty well for a little while. Of course, it didn’t take long for me to realise I didn’t know what I was doing. I lasted six months in that role. Later, when I did
I think you would agree that there is more to life than work. A lot more. Then why can so many of us be found… …sending emails at 10pm …checking our inbox on a Sunday afternoon …opening our laptops at 7am and closing them late into the night? That doesn’t seem very sustainable. Nor very
I was listening to an interview with Kate Jenkins when she was talking about the independent review into parliamentary workplaces. Of course, the findings of the review, which she chaired, are shocking and illuminating. But one thing she said during the interview stuck with me. Jenkins explained that often parliamentarians get elected and are suddenly
I was talking to a leader recently, and she stopped me with an epiphany: I’m just basically doing their job for them. I keep asking them how they are doing, but the reality is I need to ask them to bring things back to me when they are done. You see, she was doing all