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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.
Building Confidence: Tips to Elevate Your Self-Esteem
I’m often saddened by how many of my clients lack confidence and even low self regard. All too often I am able to see their strengths and potential, when they don’t. Even when I encourage them to recognise their own gifts and value to their employer, they resist.
Read BlogStaying focused in a busy job with loads of competing priorities
In today's fast-paced work environment, it's not uncommon for people to find themselves submerged in a sea of tasks, with each wave threatening to pull our focus away from essential priorities. The constant influx of emails, unexpected meetings, and looming deadlines can make it challenging to stay on track. It’s a challenge most of the leaders we work with face.
Read BlogWhy visualization is a powerful tool for building confidence and enabling success
As a Martial Artist one of tools we used to build confidence and courage, as well as ready ourselves for competing was visualization. Putting it simply, visualization works because of its ability to tap into our brain's intricate networks, priming it for success and influencing our emotions, decisions, and actions.
Read BlogMaking Remote Working Work
Remote work has now found its firm footing in the business world. As a manager, optimizing the productivity, communication, and well-being of remote teams can feel like a big challenge. However, with the right strategies in place, it's possible to create a thriving remote work environment. Here are ten steps you can take to make remote working work well for your team.
Read Blog2 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.
Read BlogBe 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.
Read BlogEnabling Beliefs
Reflect for a moment on the ways in which the beliefs you hold influence the choices you make in life, including at work. Do the things you believe about your capabilities inspire you to step forward and take on new challenges, or do they hold you back? How often do you allow limiting beliefs to cause you to hesitate to give things a go or speak up with confidence?
Read BlogWhat to do about unreliable people
Are you frustrated by the impacts unreliable employees have on the spirit and performance of your team? If so, you’re far from alone. Many of the leaders we work with complain of the need to manage people who drop the ball just when they are needed most. Tardiness, absenteeism, missed deadlines and inconsistent standards of work quality are common concerns.
Read BlogKnowing when to surrender
Reflect on how many fights you are actively engaged in right now. With yourself, family members or colleagues. To be clear, by fight I mean being in a state of struggle in which we are resisting or working to overcome, eliminate or prevent our circumstances.
Read BlogStrong Foundations
It’s quite extraordinary how one 'aha' moment can have a massive impact on our thinking, emotions and actions. The most recent example for me happened during a three-day immersive development retreat.
Read BlogMotivation myth
While having lunch with my son recently he proclaimed, “Mum, I think motivation is a myth”. He went on to explain that he doesn’t believe motivation is what enables us to get started, but rather a feeling that builds when we achieve forward momentum or a sense of progress.
Read BlogNo regrets: living life like there are few tomorrows
Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, looking after patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded her patient’s dying epiphanies in her blog, which thanks to the attention it received led to the release of her book The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing.
Read BlogCombating unconscious bias
Searching for information about the impacts of unconscious biases on people at work, I came across an article titled ‘Physical Attractiveness Bias in Employee Termination’ by Melissa Commisso and Lisa Finkelstein from the Department of Psychology at Northern Illinois University.
Read BlogWhy thank you matters more than money
How do you feel when someone says thank you? Whether it be for our efforts, or achievements, most people appreciate being told they are appreciated. Assuming sincerity in its delivery, a simple ‘thank you’ can go a long way to making people feel valued and respected.
Read BlogWhy it’s OK to talk about not being OK
The first time I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety the strongest emotion I felt was embarrassment. When my husband shared ‘the news’ with another family member I was devastated, convinced what would follow was unwanted pity and ultimately loss of respect from people I care about.
Read BlogAvoiding 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?
Read BlogTake the pain early
Have you ever avoided change because it feels too hard to go through the pain inherent in making it happen?
Read BlogChoosing our attitude
Travelling home from Sydney recently I was reminded of how much power we have to choose the version of reality we experience.
Read BlogGrowing emotional intelligence
How emotionally intelligent are you? This is a particularly difficult question for most of us to answer.
Read BlogShifting Culture Webinar
Register now for our last free webinar for 2021. Come and join us! TOMORROW - Wednesday 15th of December, at 12pm AEDT.
Read BlogLessons learned from Viktor Frankl's 'Man's Search for Meaning'
Recently I finished reading Viktor Frankl’s famous book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ and was reminded of just how much power we each have to choose how we perceive and experience reality.
Read BlogExecuting a strategy through your people
Did you miss our second live webinar?
Read BlogJust 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.
Read BlogLeveraging Executive Assistants well
This week the Corporate Dojo team and I are very excited to be launching our freshly minted 'The Influential EA of the future program. Among the most common things I work to support CEOs and business owners to achieve, is creating the capacity and mindsets they need to focus on doing their own job. All too often the leaders I work with at all levels of an organisation’s hierarchy are operating at one or two levels beneath where their focus needs to be.
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