Blog Category - Leadership

Leadership

Leadership - My Perspective

Feeling very grateful to be included in Rebecca Taylor's amazing Female Leadership campaign.Read my view of great leadership: click here
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Practicing Compassionate Leadership

How do you respond to problems with staff as a leader? Do you get frustrated or do you choose compassion and effectively coach others? Responding with frustrati...
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Grow Your Team - Tips For Effective Team Coaching

Maximising the potential of your team is a key priority for most organisations. How can you develop your team to ensure they continue to make progress? Focus o...
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Practicing Mindful Leadership

Mindfulness is being taught and practiced in a growing number of organisations to improve wellbeing and performance. For many it is a commitment to improving st...
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Address Feedback Avoidance

Providing truthful, direct and specific feedback at work has been proven to positively influence employee performance. Creating a culture where leaders interact...
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Beyond Success - A Leader's Perspective

At last week’s “Mind and its Potential” Conference in Sydney, Ruth Ostrow interviewed Gordon Cairns, 63, who in the past has led Lion Nathan, Arnotts and PepsiC...
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Motivating Others Effectively

As a leader what do you do to motivate others effectively? Do you: Develop and maintain relationships?Coach and develop others?Provide support and recognition?S...
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Successful Traits of Senior Leaders

Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London, in his article on "What's to be learned from ousted Leaders?" (HBR, August 23, 2013) ...
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Hope Improves Work Outcomes

At the World Congress of Positive Psychology (June 2013), Shane Lopez, Professor at the University of Kansas School of Business and Gallup senior scientist desc...
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Energise Your Team

Leaders can directly impact the energy and productiveness of their team. Dr. Heidi Halvorson from Columbia’s Motivation Science Centre, believes that “finding w...
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Coach Staff Effectively

Coaching is a constructive communication style that Leaders need to adopt to have a positive impact on an organisation. It is about effective communication and ...
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Effective Leadership and Control

Having clarity as leaders about what we can and can’t control enables us to effectively manage our stress and minimises the concerns over things that we can...
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Long Covid Awareness Day 2024

My Long Covid Story Today is Long Covid Awareness Day. There are at least 65 million individuals around the world have long COVID, based on a conservative e...
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Five ways to calm your stress and find rest

I love the festive season symbolism, the decorations, the trees and lights. But the stress of getting all the jobs completed, gifts purchased and wrapped, whils...
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Are you headed toward burnout

Right now, there are many issues and priorities that are all competing for our ability to care. It is no wonder so many of us feel exhausted and headed toward...
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Open now! - A program to prevent burnout and reduce stress

I am thrilled to announce that my new and improved BEYOND BURNOUT online program has reopened. Online programs are proliferating as more people understand th...
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World Mindfulness Day 2022

On September 12, we celebrate World Mindfulness Day by bringing our attention to the value and practice of mindfulness. ‘Mindfulness is the awareness that aris...
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