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When it comes to Leadership and people thriving at work, there is a lot we are passionate about. Check out our blog each month for the latest ponderings, insights and ideas from Karen Gately.
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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.
The Power of Autonomy
Working with a client recently to redesign their Performance and Development Plans, I was reminded of the incredible insights on human motivation offered by Dan Pink in his groundbreaking book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About WhatMotivates Us.
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Avoiding burnout when you're connected 24/7
When was the last time you spent a day completely disconnected from technology? How often do you check emails outside of work hours? Is your attention constantly grabbed by apps that notify you of everything going on in your world, as it happens?
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Assessing character through the hiring process
Getting hiring decisions wrong is an undeniably costly exercise. The drain on time, energy, morale and drag on progress can be immense.
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Diagnosing performance issues
Register now for our fourth webinar. Come and join us! Wednesday 24th of November, at 12pm AEST.
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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!
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?
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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