The purpose of this post is to share the important research done by Susan Cain into the place of introverts in our World. Susan has published her work in her book, “QUIET. The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking”. It is published in Australia by the Penguin Group (Australia) 2013. In […]
The purpose of this post is to provide a brief introduction to how PRISM Brain Mapping can be used in the coaching context. There are many diagnostic tools that people can use to help better understand their strengths and areas for development, their behavioural preferences, their impact on others and their personality types. Some of these, such as […]
I read a wide variety of material on leadership and am sometimes troubled by the fact, that nearly all of it, focuses solely on the responsibilities of chief executives and senior managers in organisations. I am also often confronted by dialogue within organisations and from individuals about leadership failings in their workplace. Invariably the fault is attributed, […]
I recently wrote a post which canvassed thinking on ways to manage stress as a means of being resilient. This post takes the issue a little further in addressing the notion that psychological hardiness, or mental toughness, also has a moderating effect on how we deal with the physical and mental strain of working in stressful […]
What the Heck is ARBEJDSGLAEDE!? Well, its Scandinavian for Happiness at Work of course! I just wanted to share this YouTube link because it is relevant to recent discussions I have had with one of my coachees and with a couple of teams. In particular it picks up the theme that everyone in a workplace can be a […]
In my coaching work with senior members of the Australian Public Service (APS) of late I have found a number of coachees struggling to cope with rapid change, increasing workload demands exacerbated by shrinking resources and uncertainty in terms of the direction of Ministerial expectations in a turbulent political landscape. These pressures are sometimes added to by […]
This post has been inspired by three recent conversations in which I have posed the question “Is it useful?” and had senior managers in three different organisations look startled and then uncertain. I was taught the value of this ‘Useful’ question several years ago by my Director of Communications. At the time we had quite […]
I recently came across an interesting blog, by Walter Chen, about ways to rewire our brains for positivity and happiness. I liked the post and decided to share it, following a recent conversation in a coffee shop. My coffee shop conversation was a chance encounter and chat, not a formal coaching session, but I found myself in a gentle coaching […]
I had a discussion with a senior executive recently who was bemoaning the fact that people in his organisation were paying no attention to a recent internal policy change. He had told them about it and it was posted on the intranet but the message was just not getting through! He felt he had done […]
Late in 2012 the Canberra Times Public Service Editor, Markus Mannheim, wrote an article on the “career bottleneck” facing some public servants, particularly at the Executive Level 1 classification. The article drew on an Australian Public Service Commission (APSC) paper. The statistics reflected in the APSC paper, combined with staffing cut backs in the current […]