The Art of Influencing
Leadership Primer: The Art of Influencing Contemporary leadership champions the art of influencing as opposed to the bygone power dynamics of command and control. Influencing is particularly relevant in the multifaceted arena of partnering in complex business systems. Explore how...
Emotional Intelligence in New Contexts
Leadership Primer: EI in New Contexts “There is no separation of mind and emotions; emotions, thinking, and learning are all linked.” Eric Jensen Developing our Emotional Intelligence can change both our own life and all those who come into contact...
Community Building within Organisations
PERMA in PLACE What constitutes a flourishing human life? What are the practices that promote our wellbeing? These are the questions posed by Positive Psychology, an increasingly influential area of psychology research and policy. Stemming from the works of Martin...
Why Reflection, Recognition, and Celebration Energise a Workplace
It’s estimated that the average person spends a third of their lives (90,000 hrs) at work. If you subtract the time spent sleeping, this amounts to a significant portion of our ‘awake’ time. For most people, work is their dominant...
The Benefits of Going With the Flow
Leadership Primer: Discover the Profound Impact of ‘Flow’ on Success “Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.” Sigmund Freud The state of ‘flow’ in human life is a powerful force that can springboard us to our greatest accomplishments. ...
What is Mindset Theory?
Leadership Primer: Discover the Power of a Growth Mindset “What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who...
The Case for Conscious Organisations: The Time is Now
The world has reached a crisis point. We are confronted with study after study describing the looming catastrophe of our inaction on climate change. Resignations continue to hit all major industries as people search for ways to spend their lives meaningfully,...
Feedback and Familiarity – how to see our colleagues with fresh eyes
How to see our colleagues with fresh eyes As we work together with people over a long (or even medium) period of time, it is easy to become very fixed in how we see them. It is part of human nature...
Conscious Leadership for the Future Fit
Though the idea of conscious leadership and conscious organisations has been around since about 2014, it is emerging as the leadership beacon of our time. As we search for what will help us to become future fit (= not harming...
Regenerative Workplace Cultures
“For me, a regenerative culture is a culture that is consciously building the capacity of everybody in a particular place to respond and change and accepts transformation as something that life just ‘does’.” — Daniel Wahl Life has an inherent capacity...
