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Living in 'The Gap'
  • Jul 10 2024
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Living in 'The Gap'

The Gap is our inescapable inheritance, the dubious gift bestowed on us by our humanity - by the ways in which our brain is wired.

Living in 'The Gap'

I told them, but they didn't listen!
  • Jul 05 2024
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I told them, but they didn't listen!

We hear it from bosses, parents and teachers, from politicians and spouses, from law enforcement professionals and from medical experts.

I told them, but they didn't listen!

What is the Leader-Mind Equation?
  • Feb 02 2021
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What is the Leader-Mind Equation?

The Leader-Mind Equation is a simple formula intended to help those with leadership responsibility to focus on what matters in leadership.

What is the Leader-Mind Equation?

The importance of re-inventing your leadership
  • Jan 29 2021
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The importance of re-inventing your leadership

The breaks offered by the Christmas and New Year holidays provide rare moments of respite in a busy life: a brief period of reflective opportunity to refresh your own spirit; to gather yourself before plunging back into the kaleidoscopic frenzy of a complex working environment.

The importance of re-inventing your leadership

Transforming 'The Staff' to a Real Team
  • Nov 20 2020
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Transforming 'The Staff' to a Real Team

Team is one of those group nouns that carries a tick of approval with it. Team - a distinctive and productive way of working together.

Transforming 'The Staff' to a Real Team

Do leaders who blame - Leave the Cow in the Ditch?
  • Nov 03 2020
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Do leaders who blame - Leave the Cow in the Ditch?

What the experience has illustrated for me immediately is the sad human habit of asking the wrong question when something is awry.

Do leaders who blame - Leave the Cow in the Ditch?

Speaking Truth to Power!
  • Nov 03 2020
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Speaking Truth to Power!

The first duty of the follower is to speak truth to power

Speaking Truth to Power!

Diversity on Boards
  • Jun 09 2020
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Diversity on Boards

Diversity of directors on boards is not about ticking a box to satisfy quotas or to be seen to be doing the right thing. It is an important role of any board to put a lens over its composition on a regular basis to ensure that the board has the right talent at the board table.

Diversity on Boards

Role of Company Secretary
  • May 07 2020
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Role of Company Secretary

The role of a company secretary has changed over time from an administrative role to a role that is relied upon to provide corporate governance support to the directors as well as managing the company's affairs.

Role of Company Secretary

How Theory helps us to become more effective
  • Feb 06 2018
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How Theory helps us to become more effective

Theory can make us less reactive with a better ability to control those events - Theory leads to prediction. Without prediction, experience and examples teach nothing.

How Theory helps us to become more effective

Humans are an Internal Control System
  • Dec 08 2017
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Humans are an Internal Control System

Just as a thermostat is a control system is designed to keep an environment at an even temperature, or when we drive a car and constantly make corrections to keep our vehicle on the road, we are always controlling our entire biological and cognitive system to get what we want.

Humans are an Internal Control System

How Minds Really Work
  • Oct 31 2017
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How Minds Really Work

Some people struggle with the reality that we are internally controlled. They notice that they are influenced by other people and events. They are aware that they sometimes do what they don't really want to do. They feel that the behaviour of other people is 'causing' their unhappiness.

How Minds Really Work

The Myth of External Control
  • Oct 30 2017
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The Myth of External Control

One of the world's most enduring and misleading myths is that we can, and should, control other people; and that other people or events can control us.

The Myth of External Control

Great Conference Opportunity
  • Jun 06 2017
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Great Conference Opportunity

This year's William Glasser Institute (Australia) Conference offers an unrepeatable opportunity to hear and converse with two exceptional International presenters.

Great Conference Opportunity

The Energy Factor
  • Apr 05 2017
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The Energy Factor

If the energy that your staff invests in your business is a crucial element of business success, does it not make sense to lead and manage them in a way that will encourage them to energetically engage with the success of the organisation?

The Energy Factor

6-point strategy for Reconciliation Conversation
  • Feb 27 2017
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6-point strategy for Reconciliation Conversation

Use this process when you want to be reconciled with another person after a breakdown in the relationship between you.

6-point strategy for Reconciliation Conversation

9 coaching questions to encourage self-evaluation
  • Feb 27 2017
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9 coaching questions to encourage self-evaluation

9 coaching questions to encourage self-evaluation

9 coaching questions to encourage self-evaluation

Inside Professional Learning
  • Aug 30 2016
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Inside Professional Learning

All the brain can know if knows from inside itself. As leaders however, we can encourage our staff to take the risk that learning and change involves by creating the conditions for learning.

Inside Professional Learning

Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System
  • Jul 19 2016
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Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System

When leaders try to do the thinking for teachers, there is no possibility that what emerges from the superficial learning that results can survive in the complex adaptive system that is the classroom.

Classroom as a Complex Adaptive System

Knowledge Workers
  • Jun 15 2016
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Knowledge Workers

Knowledge workers have high degrees of expertise, education, or experience, and the primary purpose of their jobs involves the creation, distribution or application of their knowledge.

Knowledge Workers

Building a High Performance Team
  • Sep 29 2015
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Building a High Performance Team

Great teamwork is seen as the key to unlocking higher levels of creativity - and a more committed performance - from a group of people who work together in pursuit of a common goal.

Building a High Performance Team

Team Effectiveness and the MBTI
  • Sep 04 2015
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Team Effectiveness and the MBTI

The MBTI provides insights into patterns of behaviour that we tend otherwise not to notice. Rob conducts Myers Briggs Type Indicator Training Sydney.

Team Effectiveness and the MBTI

The Psychological Keystone of Your Leadership
  • May 13 2015
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The Psychological Keystone of Your Leadership

Every writer about leadership development makes some assumptions about people: However, these assumptions are often not declared, and the result is often considerable confusion about the management of people.

The Psychological Keystone of Your Leadership

Self-Leadership
  • Mar 05 2015
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Self-Leadership

There are two connected dimensions of self-leadership: 1. Self-awareness or self-knowledge 2. Personal mastery. Rob Stones writes on his research on these topics.

Self-Leadership

5 things you must know about Leadership
  • Jan 27 2015
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5 things you must know about Leadership

5 things you must know about people in order to take the guesswork out of leadership

5 things you must know about Leadership