Surprisingly, now is the right time to reskill your workforce
The World Economic Forum met at the beginning of this year to discuss the urgent need for global reskilling. Then they got upstaged by Covid-19. But the argument hasn’t gone away. In fact, with recessionary conditions looming, one could claim the argument has been strengthened. The increasing talent shortage we were experiencing throughout 2019 wasn’t just […]
The ugly truth: can you handle it?
We often hide the truth of org change in order to protect our people from the ugly truth. Did you know that this beautiful sentiment of employee care is actually counter-productive? The truth is our people can handle it – and in fact, when we’re worried about putting too much on them, we could actually […]
Are you talking in the wrong language?
Dan Coyle’s ‘Culture Code’ talks about the signals and language of highly successful groups, and most leaders already know the importance of the verbal cues and phrases we choose to use. This has never been more important than it is today. Language is code for culture. To enable our workforces to adopt greater adaptability and […]
Last month was a hell of a year wasn’t it?
Many of us will look back at March 2020 for the rest of our careers. For me, March felt like getting caught in a rip after swimming nothing but laps for years. Frankly, a bit of an SOS moment! For most companies, HR was there to lead us into calmer waters, and I for one am […]
What happens when you make this one little change to your comms
Like all of us, I’m still stuck in Corona-mania. I recently discovered that to find out what was really going on in Wuhan, people had been turning to Tinder. It made me recall 9/11 when people were watching citizen reportage via Youtube and Facebook before watching the News. Then I listened to the HR priorities […]
3 surprisingly simple ways to improve your leadership today
I was recently talking to a client who was concerned about the long term effects of CV19 on her workforce, and was uncomfortable to talk about it with them. We have no idea how all this will pan out, but we do know one thing. Our people are responsible, professional adults and they can handle […]
How to trust your leadership instincts
In her book “Fixing Feedback”, Georgia Murch makes the brilliant statement: People hear your content, but smell your intent. When I ran People Change at Australia Post for a few years, one thing I noticed about leaders preparing for a hard conversation – whether it was performance or redundancy – was an obsession with following […]
Are you Leading ‘Through’ Change still?
Are you Leading ‘Through’ Change still? The current thinking around Change Management focuses on understanding why the change is happening and how things will be better once we adopt it. There is still this concept of ‘getting through’ change. This works well for change that is finite – where the pain of the transition will […]
5 Tips to stop feeling overwhelmed
5 Tips to stop feeling overwhelmed Ever felt like you can’t see the wood for the trees? Ask any leader today and they’ll tell you they’ve been overwhelmed. It might be workload, complexity, ambiguity, changeability, conflicting demands, fear of the unknown – or because we’re under the weather! The effect can be paralysing, demoralising and […]
3 ways to reduce friction in your team
3 ways to reduce friction in your team Our work-life is like a fast-moving sports game these days – we’re constantly adjusting, swerving, and switching to stay competitive. Like all sports teams, there are moments of friction where things feel sticky, lumpy – just plain wrong. The key reasons for these frictionful moments are usually […]
