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You know when you don’t have it
My lemon tree has a bad case of gall wasp and I have had to prune it back significantly. So much so that it’s been reduced to a little more than the skeleton. I think it will be a while before we’ll see another lemon from it. It’s upsetting, particularly since we watched it thrive…
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Company values are NOT a team exercise.
Company values are NOT a team exercise. That’s right, I don’t think values should be designed by EVERYONE in your company. And I believe that for a number of reasons:➣ It becomes a neverending exercise➣ Values get diluted away from your leadership vision➣ They might be defined by staff who work for the company for a very short…
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Are your people feeling this?
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…
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Are you having conversations like this one too?
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…
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Is it really about time? What is lack of time really about?
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…
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Are you in a slump?
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…
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Who likes change
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…
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How to climb the mountain at your own pace
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…
