What To Look For In Future Leaders
Someday, the current leaders won't be there and someone else will need to fill their shoes. It might not be soon, or it might be very urgent due to demographics,…
What Do You Expect?
Poor performance, turnover, conflict and disengagement. This reads like a checklist of most leaders’ worst fears. While there is no single silver bullet answer to solve all four of these…
Five Reasons Why Leaders Need To Relax
Leaders have a lot on their plate. They have lots to think about, lots to do and lots to decide. This likely conjures a picture of frantic busyness and not…
Encouraging Progress In A Changing Workplace
A friend of mine was recently part of an organisational restructure that involved painful redundancies, changed responsibilities, and completely different ways of working. As you can imagine, the scale of the…
Excellence Isn’t Enough
A car is a car, but a BMW is a driving machine. There is the iPad, and then there are products generically called 'tablets'. And why the premium on bags with…
7 Myths of Coaching
Business coaching is becoming one of the most effective business tools to improve performance, and where it works well, results can be seen within days of the coaching session.
Change: Turning Resistance Into Resilience
Change is going to happen in your professional life. No doubt about it. Some change is poorly conceived, ineffectively managed, and/or insanely implemented.
Are You Overcomplicating?
Chances are there's something you're working on now that seems overwhelming. You may have lots of moving pieces on a never-ending project. Or you've got too many people involved in…
Put On Your Leaders Hat And Watch Their Attitude Change
People are the biggest cost to any organisation and their performance has a direct impact on your bottom line. The most successful organisations are the ones that can get the…
Accelerate Leadership Effectiveness – By Giving Up
When you think about surrender, you don’t likely think of great leadership. People who surrender, lose, right?
The Power Of Positive Emotions
There is always an emotional component to change, and personal experience will tell anyone this is true. There have been changes in your life you were excited about, and those…
Speak Up & Sort It Out
Being reluctant to sort through difficulties at work is a very human condition. Many of us get frustrated or hurt by others at work, but we refuse to speak to…
Moving From Old School To New School Leadership
In 2016, Proteus CEO and Founder Des Penny and I, designed and delivered a new conference called Shake It Up.
Why Leaders Need To Be Abundance Thinkers
What we believe about ourselves, our situation and our world drives our thoughts and actions and therefore has a huge impact on the results we achieve.
The 7 Deadly Sins Of Customer Engagement
Despite the innovation and resourcefulness of entrepreneurial organisations, they can also fall victim to the 7 deadly sins of customer engagement.
Riding The Dragon: Taking Risks And Transforming Fear
Clare Bowditch is an Icon of the Australian Media Landscape. She is an accomplished speaker and business mentor, and prides herself on teaching both professionals and artists the balance between…
Our Lack Of Focus Is Killing Us
Let’s be blunt. Our lack of attention is costing us big time in how effectively we get through our day, and how we feel as a result.
Making Clever Happen
Dr. Jason Fox is on an epic quest to liberate the world from poorly designed processes and work.
