Empathy enables you to know if the people you’re trying to reach are actually reached. Without empathy, you can’t build a team or nurture a new genera...
As a leader, much of our time can be taken up by members of the team who encounter a problem and come to us to fix it for them. They don't find a way ...
Did you know a recent organizational alignment research study by ISA Global found that strategic clarity accounts for a 31% difference between high an...

Ian Treloar is a long time friend and former colleague of mine who, for all the time I have known him, has been trying to grow truffles. He...
In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of a thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to...
The easiest way to think about reliability in terms of building trust is to imagine your leadership like a vehicle that takes you from A to B.
In o...
We all know that feeling before we have to do something important. As a facilitator, I have faced it a couple of times myself in the last couple of we...
This week I'm putting the finishing touches to a six-month leadership program with an Asian based market leader in the manufacturing industry. I'm sup...
I moved back to NZ on Christmas Eve 2019 and hit the ground running. I've been house hunting twice, bought an apartment, a car, and re-established lin...
During the last few months, the internet has been overwhelmingly filled with content helping people to adapt to working in lockdown/shelter in place. ...
As NZ transitions to Level 2, and many people head back to work in their offices (or a coworking or somewhere else), there will be lots of leaders who...
It’s estimated that by 2025 Millennials will make up as much as 75% of the workforce.
Leaders across organisations have realised that they need t...
As I transitioned back to NZ from Mexico this Christmas, after a little over two years away “on the road”, I knew it was going to be tough settling ba...
I was excited to attend the Jumpshift NZ Leadership Action Network event last week, focussed on Liberating Structures.
The name was a little myster...
Yes, the title is a clickbaity one - and I apologise. But the reason I chose it was based on a memory of a conversation many years ago with a mentor w...

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