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From leadership and company culture to self-improvement and current affairs, our blog offers practical tips and advice to help you learn and grow.  

Discover how to become a more effective leader, build a thriving team, and achieve your ambitions.  Among other things our blogs can help you to:

  • Discover how to build trust, create a healthy workplace culture, and keep your employees engaged.
  • Develop a positive mindset,   cultivate resilience, build confidence, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Karen writes about things that inspire her in a hope they will inspire you too.  Ultimately she’s strive to help you to become a more effective leader, a successful individual, and a well-rounded citizen of the world.

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2 things that make the biggest difference when it comes to building a cohesive team

2 things that make the biggest difference when it comes to building a cohesive team

Great teams are always cohesive and united in their pursuit of common goals. The strength and extent of interpersonal connection existing among the members of a group is the biggest indicator of whether a group is likely to succeed together.   

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Be and work for a 'family-friendly' leader

Be and work for a 'family-friendly' leader

Maintaining balance between the demands of your job and those of your family life comes down to the decisions you make. Your ability to maintain balance is ultimately a reflection of what you choose to prioritise, who you choose to work for and what you choose to accept.   

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6 steps to harnessing discretionary effort

6 steps to harnessing discretionary effort

So many of the leaders I work with are frustrated by failed attempts to lift the energy and contribution of their team.  People plodding along doing no more than they absolutely must is all too familiar and a common challenge across the diverse range of industries we work with.   

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Giving yourself the best chance of success each day

Giving yourself the best chance of success each day

Success doesn’t come easily.  No matter much it might seem like some people have it lucky and seem to achieve everything they want to, the simple reality is everyone needs to do the work needed to land in the places that they want to.   

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Value adding performance management

Value adding performance management

It doesn’t matter how well designed a performance management system is, unless it is effectively applied it will add little to no value. What matters most is the approach people leaders take every day to getting the best from each person on their team.

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CEO fires 900 staff on a Zoom call...

CEO fires 900 staff on a Zoom call...

In case you’ve missed it in the news, the latest staggeringly poor example of business leadership is brought to us courtesy of Better.com CEO Vishal Garg. 

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Executing a strategy through your people

Executing a strategy through your people

Did you miss our second live webinar?

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Webinar 2 - Executing a strategy through your people

Webinar 2 - Executing a strategy through your people

Register now for our second webinar. Come and join us! Wednesday 29th of September, at 11:30am AEST. 

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Just deal with it already!

Just deal with it already!

Contemplate for a moment on how often you avoid dealing with the problems you need to.  Now ask yourself how well that typically turns out - for you, your team or even your business. In my experience avoidance simply prolongs agony and often makes things worse.  All too often the people I work with hesitate to address issues and ultimately pay a price.  Energy, time, money and momentum are all lost when roadblocks to success are tolerated, ignored or simply put in the ‘too hard to deal with right now’ basket.

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Are you biting off more than you can chew?

Are you biting off more than you can chew?

While working with a client recently he said to me “we’re like a python that has swallowed a cow”.  Apart from making me hearty laugh, his comment also made me reflect on all the people and businesses I work with that fit that description. 

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