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June 29, 2012

Quietness and Introversion

Hello everyone, and welcome to the end of the June. It’s not unusual for me to hear from my coaching clients that one of their ‘problems’ […]
April 24, 2012

Listening and Leadership

This month is a topic of great interest to me and relevant to my work. Listening is something I’m always practising and trying to improve, so […]
November 5, 2011

Do You Have a High Performing Workplace?

At the Australian Financial Review’s (AFR) Leadership Conference in August this year the audience was provided a taste of results from research which identified the leadership, […]
July 10, 2011

Job satisfaction is not enough

You would expect that if employees have high job satisfaction then organisations would experience high job performance and staff retention.  This is only part of the […]
May 31, 2011

Managing Positive Change

I wrote the article below earlier this month for Positive Psychology News Daily. Leaders and managers often face the task of implementing organisational change, a complex […]
March 6, 2011

A culture of appreciation at work

In 2006 I wrote an article about the importance of creating a culture of appreciation in the workplace. I raise this topic again in 2011 because […]
November 20, 2010

Stomping on Humanity

1. Stomping on humanity Let’s start this great quote from a McKinsey article by Bob Sutton, ‘Why good bosses tune in to their people’ (Aug 2010): […]
October 20, 2010

The Good Life according to JK Rowling

Below is an article I wrote for PPND earlier this month (see reference at end). Two weeks ago a very good friend wrote to me, “This […]
August 20, 2010

Letting Go – Part 2

Hello Everyone, Almost two years ago, I emailed “Letting Go”. I then posted that article on Positive Psychology News Daily in June 2010. To continue sharing […]