I’m embarrassed to say I lost my mojo recently.
Confession Time: I ended last year just scraping through, I was tired, disconnected and a bit disillusioned – like 8 billion other people! Then I started this year too early, too unclear on my priorities and too empty on fuel. It made for a VERY slow start to 2022. Well, we’re not called SLOWHR, we’re called […]
Why is everyone behaving so weirdly?
This month I’ve been asked – a lot – for my thoughts on things like: Handling entitled employees Why HR are handling a spike in harassment and bullying complaints And how Executives can re-ignite accountability in their teams I know these are not new, but right now it’s quite a lot and it’s all at […]
3 deceptively easy ways to break your B-Suite leaders
2022 is going to be a big year. It has to be – transformational results are high on the shareholder agenda everywhere, and without your B-Suite, these goals will fail. Sadly, in the past week alone, I have had 5 of my high-performing B-Suite clients talk about resigning, putting some pretty major deliverables immediately at […]
Redefining Success
After “the year we panicked” followed by “the year we stood still” welcome to “the year that is already really annoying.” By 25 January, my evaluation of 2022 was ‘fail’. And I’ve been thinking about my relationship with failure ever since. The old me would have written 2022 off as a failure already: I’ve been meaning to […]
THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN TALENT CHALLENGE with Rebecca Houghton
BOLDHR’S 2022 FORECAST What the real issues are What they’re not 6 action steps to navigate you through it The Covid era will long be remembered by those living through it, and will be studied by historians, biological and social scientists and political students for decades to come. The last two years have […]
The Third Way
Next year is going to be a brand new way of working for all of us, and for B-Suite leaders this will bring a whole new challenge to bear, because one size will definitely not fit all. It’s not like way 1 – ‘office work’, and it’s not like way 2 – ‘work from home’. […]
2022 Forecast
This month, I’ve been hovering over my crystal ball with increasing frustration, and I know you have too. I’ve been looking for insight, and all I’m finding is contradictory and often lightweight advice on what 2022 will bring. Then it dawned on me that I was looking too closely at the problem and I needed […]
Three little words
I’ve mentored exactly thirty B-Suite leaders this month. I like things to be tidy, so that number pleases me disproportionately (is that weird?). The leaders I work with are weirdly in sync with each other too – like they’re being tidy to make it easier for me to spot the patterns. And there are always patterns. If one […]
Peter and the workload Wolf
I think we all know the story of Peter, the boy who cried wolf. He did it so many times that the townsfolk stopped listening, and when the wolf really did turn up they didn’t believe him and his sheep were all eaten up. In our story, the townspeople are the Executive, the sheep are […]
A most ingenious paradox
I was watching Pirates of Penzance recently (I’m in lockdown after all) and this paradoxical little ditty caught my eye. You know the one – the paradox of a leap-year baby being both 5 and 25 years old at the same time? Kevin Kline does a marvellous job of exploring what a brain-strain that is, […]
