22nd January 2023
As a leadership mentor and coach, I’ve come to appreciate how triggers for professional and personal growth can come from anywhere - if we’re open to them. And for many of us, early in the calendar of Lunar year is when we take time to reflect on the positive changes we want to bring about for ourselves...
Reflect and reconnect for greater impact
As a member of a senior leadership team, you know that the pressure is as high as ever – and perhaps expectations have never been greater. As leaders, we’re now simultaneously keeping our clients and people safe, adjusting how, when...
Organisations were blindsided by the onslaught of COVID and forced to swiftly shift to a ‘new business normal’ as a means of survival. As we all acclimatise to the far-ranging implications, it’s now become a question of how we quickly we can reorient, evolve and bring to life new sources of value and opportunity.
To uncover our...
As game-changing CEOs, chairs, directors, executives and business owners, we can often find ourselves frustrated, stuck or uncertain about our best next moves. While these feelings might not sit on the surface, they can niggle at the backs of our minds – often for long periods of time.
For many, these discomforts escalate with the weight of...
1: Failing to understand the Board’s role in, and impact on, culture
How to avoid: i. Get aligned; ii. Reset practices; iii. Engage the CEO, CHRO & Executive
2: Failing to gain transparency and traction
How to avoid: i. True culture indicators; ii. First hand voices; iii. Board tone
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Our Boards set the tone for what happens in our organisations. It's now an inescapable fact. The damning royal commission findings, our shouting newspaper headlines, and the loud voices of activists and society are demanding that our Boards pay close attention to the tone they set with their words, actions and oversight - or the absence of them....
Progressive Boards. The range of responses I receive when I say those two words is fascinating. Reactions range from:
Was your reaction one of these, or something different?
It brought...
As I opened and leafed through the papers last week, I was struck by the sheer number of reputation-damaging stories that referenced culture, conduct and the condonation of unacceptable behaviour. Let’s just take the Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday last week, for example. In that one day, headlines screamed, “There was a culture of bullying in that room”, “Left faction...
