This weekend we honoured ANZAC Day. While we had to remain physically distant, there was an element of connectedness by coming together in spirit to remember, thank and salute our fallen heroes. We were lucky enough to experience a child playing The Last Post on our street, which was a beautiful way to commemorate Australia […]
Management
Leading Your Team Through Uncertain Times: Some Ideas From Us
To pivot: The action of turning around a point. If this is not the most used description of what we are all having to do at the moment, I don’t know what is… oh.. other than unprecedented! That gets a good– run too. As with many of you, our team is working through the transition […]
Three Ways To Deal With Difficult Colleagues
We’ve all experienced someone who drives us crazy at work *cue Fine Young Cannibals*. Maybe they decide tuna is a good lunch option every.day.of.the.week. Or, they never offer to shout a coffee, even though you’ve bought their $10 freshly-squeezed-almond-milk-latte’s for the past six months. Let’s face it– we can’t choose who we work with. Although, can […]
Resilience: Nothing Happens Until You Burn the Boats
My last article surrounded R U OK Day, and explored the idea of personal resilience. This week I want to discuss how we can build organisational resilience– in other words, “Burn the Boats”. This idea stems from military history, surrounding the concept of moving forward and not retreating. There’s an old story from 1519, where Spanish […]
Do You Have An Office Frenemy? Here Are 5 Ways To Deal With Them
You might have an office BFF. You know, your lunch date, your coffee companion and the one you confide in re your boss’s passive-aggressive emails. Your work BF is a friend for life. But what about your office frenemy? A frenemy is a friend that is also an enemy. The dictionary defines a frenemy as, […]
An Open Letter To Micromanagers: Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff
The other day I had a screaming match via text with my partner on the bus, when I felt someone looking over my shoulder. I was annoyed. Who are you to be judging my erratic finger-typing and capitalised sentences, I thought. Image: Giphy The woman tapped me on the back and said, “Just so you […]
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