10 Aug The State of Wellbeing
Over the last several years, wellbeing has been a significant focus within health and safety legislatures, especially mental health and wellbeing. Businesses with large mobile workforces, like the mining or...
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27 Jul Are You Preparing for Change?
Individually, and for our businesses, change is just around the corner, or it is happening right now. We could try and put our head in the sand and pretend it...
06 May Are You Reaching Toward Your Potential?
Last time I shared on the habits we are forming at this time in isolation, and the challenges in forming and breaking bad habits when it comes to an end....
20 Apr What are Your Current Habits
We are finding ourselves in unusual times; working from home, out-of-work waiting for new opportunities, waiting for the restrictions to be lifted. Our days are different from what we were...
13 Mar Developing others
I am currently in the stages of writing a book on leadership traits. One characteristic I have identified is Developing Others. Many businesses say leadership development is important, but this usually receives the...
06 Nov Your Crew – Competent, or Not?
Last month I raised the question as to whether the Captain (=CEO/MD) was just steering the ship, or instead charting the course for the business to follow. I left a...
14 Oct Are you Steering the Ship or Charting the course?
I love the analogy of comparing the course of a business to a journey, and especially an ocean-going journey. When I look at the “leadership” of an organisation, I always look to...
19 May What are the “Values” (Part 2)
In Part 1, I discussed how I had recently observed some organisations revising their values based on the need to feel fresh or because someone external to the business thought it was...
18 Apr What are the “Values” (Part 1)
Just recently I have seen a few organisations going through the process of revising their overarching vision and their values. These organisations have typically been in operation for more than...
18 Mar Visionary
What do you picture in your mind when I say the word “visionary”? What words or images are summoned, or who do you think of at the mention of the word? Maybe...