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Leaders: How to Get Over a Failed Event
We were meant to host our latest in-person Melbourne Breakfast for Leaders workshop, but you know what happened? Nobody came. (That’s not exactly true, somebody did buy tickets just as we were preparing to pull the event, and we refunded them). Womp womp. The previous two in-person events – in Melbourne and Mornington – were…
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How to approach difficult conversations with confidence
How difficult conversations can impact your team negatively I feel like this is going to be another one of those calls where we walk away not having made any decisions. This is what a team member said to my client, Jenny during their team meeting. Jenny could feel the mood dampen. Everyone was silent, digesting…
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Leveraging quiet times in your business: A leadership opportunity for innovation and growth.
When you’re a business leader, quiet times can often bring about feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. We worry about the slowdown, stress over the dip in enquiries, and struggle against the stillness. But quiet periods, which are often normal lulls in the business cycle, can turn into golden opportunities for leaders to innovate, engage their…
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Situational Leadership Explained in Real Life
My daughter just got her driver’s license last week. It’s a bittersweet milestone. On one hand, my unpaid role as a chauffeur is no longer required. On the other, those small moments of connection between us during school pick up and drop off and other drives are less frequent. Such is parenting. But I wanted…
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How to build better communication skills as a team leader
We can’t really do a good job of leading people without building our communications skills. And we can’t have good communication without a healthy dose of listening. But so much gets in the way of listening: we’re busy looking for a response, we’re considering ten other things at the same time, we rush to draw…
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Every bit of self-awareness will help your team thrive
Let’s picture a new leader for a moment. 🚀 Excited about the opportunity 🚀 Pleased with having their abilities acknowledged 🚀 Enthusiastic to have a real impact and be a truly great leader (not like the not-so-great leaders they’ve encountered in their working life) *insert scratch disc sound It doesn’t take too long before the…
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From a group of people → to a team. Collaboration and how to encourage it.
Every great team is good at collaborating. But collaboration doesn’t happen by default. When people don’t trust each other enough, when they don’t feel comfortable having sometimes-difficult conversations, when they work in silos, focus on their own results and protect their ‘patch’, then collaboration can’t thrive. So how do we, as leaders, push against that,…
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Why Trust is Important in Team Success
We both know success in a team or in an organisation is about much more than just meeting—or even exceeding—targets. A leader I was working with recently took on a team that was meeting targets, but there were other visible signs the team wasn’t really a team. These include: I’ve also seen ‘nice’ teams, which…
