Team work under very high pressure – what helps?
Lea Symonds Last week I was working with some fabulous people from State Emergency Services area in New South Wales. One of the key people was telling me how they had utilised the SDI to underpin some...
View ArticleWant better sales outcomes? Then make sure your Client Pitch meeting is more...
By Sarah Warburton Does your business regularly need to pitch for business? Whether you are offering services or products, a pitch meeting can be fairly routine and is often something we roll out with...
View ArticleCultivating Team Culture and Creating Team Cohesion
By Sarah Warburton A workplace with poor team culture equals a workplace devoid of team orientation – often with disastrous consequences. Offices where personality conflicts and ineffective...
View ArticleNot a “conventional” consultant
By Lea Symonds A potential client asked me to put together a capability statement so they could decide whether to involve me in a critical organisational change project. This gave me a dilemma. What...
View ArticleDysfunctional Leadership
By Sarah Warburton Recent political events in Australia have proven a timely reminder of just how critical strong leadership is to the running of an organisation. It follows that dysfunctional...
View ArticleThere’s Strategy Behind Your Seating!
By Louise Thomson I’m packing my bag for the Igniting Leadership Program which I’m facilitating this week for Leadership Victoria. We concluded a program on Friday and here we go again; however, rather...
View ArticleIn Praise of Laziness
Lea Symonds I have recently been on leave in the Alaskan wilderness where thankfully there was no internet access. So, with the hazy goal of “making time to do nothing” in mind, I picked up an...
View ArticleStop the Madness
Lea Symonds Sometimes I catch myself sighing wistfully and longing for the good old days when being a manager meant working a solid 9 – 5 day then going home, taking an hour for a counter lunch and...
View ArticleHow to Enable People and Disable Bullying
Everyone is talking about bullying. Here’s why it’s a big deal. In December 2012 Safe Work Australia undertook a study showing that the effects of bullying in the workplace are costing Australian...
View ArticleWhat happened to Happiness?
Lea Symonds I have 224 Followers on Twitter and am LinkedIn to 448 like-minded souls. It’s a paltry number compared to someone like Lady Gaga (who has 40,168,125 Twitter followers). When I look at the...
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