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 […]
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If You’re Doing Things Without Passion, You’re Wasting Your Time
My phone rings at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday from an unknown number. Telemarketers, I think to myself. But I’d recently seen my GP. What if she was calling to tell me my google diagnosis of leprosy, with 2-3 days to live was correct? I immediately stop everything I’m doing, which is aimlessly scrolling through photos […]
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 […]
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