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Don’t Overthink It
When you're a Manager, there can be a tendency to believe you need to do “hundreds of things” to manage your team well. You don't. The leadership teaching industry pretends you need to do courses...
The 5 Secrets to Great Leadership – Revealed!
I specialise in helping people become great Managers and Leaders. Which is a good thing, because the world of work needs lots more of them. As part of my job, I've designed and built courses...
Bad Bosses Are Beautiful
What sort of manager/leader do you want to be? Most people will answer, “a good one.” And that makes sense; it's hard to believe that anyone would deliberately want to be a bad boss. I started...
Culture: The Smiling Assassin
As a manager of a team or business, at some point you’ll need to think about that thing we call Culture. It helps to firstly get clear about what culture is...
Bag of Goodies
What do you do for work? What's your job? We like to ask these questions when we meet someone for the first time. It's part of the “get to know you” routine we play. My article today is a quick...
The Party’s Over
Working from home (WFH). Some love it. Some hate it. Our overseas guest Covid flew in and ensured we all got very comfortable with back-to-back video meetings, running to the kitchen for a quick...
Office Romances
This week on SBS there was an episode of Insight titled, “Love at Work”. It said that more than a third of us meet our partners at work, and then asked the question: how much say should employers...
World’s Greatest Invention
What sort of manager/leader do you want to be? If you’re catching up with family or friends over dinner this weekend, here's something to throw into the mix: “Name the world's greatest invention.”...
Why Do Managers Exist?
I love this question. It's one I ask people at the start of my workshops. And it's a question I've thought about many times during 30+ years of both managing people at work, and being managed...
When You Hit “The Grind”
A friend recently told me that she and one of her work colleagues chatted last week about "losing the spark". They have been hairdressers since the age of 15 and are now in their late 30s. That's...