'Tis the Season to Recharge
We’re gearing up for a restorative break over the holidays with plenty of connection and dis-connection. What’s your plan?
Finding joy at work
As we begin the countdown to summer holidays we were pondering, how do you stay energised and motivated, especially as workload and deadline pressures mount?
We know there’s a lot of extrinsic motivation at this time of year with the promise of time-off a strong driving force for many. But once this wears off, how do we maintain the momentum?
Let us share our secret: there’s a powerful force that once you tap into – can create the extra drive needed to move mountains – not just as we head into Summer Holidays, but all year round: it’s called Intrinsic Motivation
Creating Purposeful Priorities
Constantly evolving technology means that we are living through a generational change to the way we work, but have we adapted our enabling systems to support us, or do they inadvertently run our lives? We discuss the challenges technology can create for productivity, performance and wellbeing, and we share three ways we are intentional about what we do and the way we do it.
Developing into stars
Conventional wisdom has alleged, for many years, that your weaknesses represent your greatest opportunities for development. However, recent studies have shown that it is through a focus on strengths that wellbeing and performance really shines.
Unlocking productivity by mastering Operating Rhythms
In the bustling world of business, where time is both a precious resource and a fleeting companion, mastering our rhythms is essential. These rhythms—the heartbeat of an organisation—determine how teams collaborate, make decisions, and achieve their goals.
Embracing AI and “the Age of With”
The opportunity for AI to reduce or remove repetitive, manual, laborious tasks in the workplace is enormous and exciting. However we know from change theory that taking that first step with our people, is always the hardest.
We’ve got four big ideas to help leaders encourage their teams to embrace AI at work.
Are you engaging with your people, on strategy?
If the feedback from your people is “We don’t see ourselves in this strategy, and we don’t understand how we contribute.” You have an engagement challenge. Here are three tips to help engage your people on strategy, to grow their understanding and commitment.
Where Trust and Wellbeing Intersect
Today we work more flexibly than ever before, but our workplaces haven't adapted well to long-term change and employee productivity and wellbeing is suffering. We offer three tips to support leaders to enhance performance and productivity in the workplace.
Meeting Fatigue - a Symptom of Bigger Challenges
A recent client had a wonderful high-performing team that were meeting their KPI’s and responding with high engagement scores. However, informally they were reporting fatigue and showing signs of burnout - here's what we learned.
Gender Equality in the Workplace
This International Women’s Day, we reflect on gender equality in the workplace and leave you with three big takeaways.
Taking time to reflect, learn and grow
Practicing regular reflection related to your career can greatly improve the way that you feel about work. The following steps provide a guide to encourage regular reflection and personal growth, that will enable thriving in the workplace.
Supporting new parents in the workplace
Having a baby creates so much change for a person and for their workplace. To support your people, or prepare yourself for this life changing event, we recommend these three tips.
Getting the most out of team-level strategy
Many teams engage in strategic design and development, but not all strategy is good strategy. Here, we set out the fundamentals you need to have in place to create, and ultimately deliver on, an impactful team-level strategy.
The power of checking-in with your people
The modern leadership challenge is knowing there is a problem, despite performance metrics telling you there isn't one. The solution is simple - check-in with your people regularly. Here's how to do it.
Cultural diversity - our biggest untapped opportunity
While deep cultural issues such as First Nations recognition remains uncertain in Australia, so too will the challenge of significant underrepresentation of cultural diversity in Australian workplaces.