Coaching, Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership
This chart from McKinsey helps to explain a key driver contributing to The Great Resignation. Organisations are failing to get beneath the surface of what people actually want, or listen to them when they tell them, as I’ve heard is occurring in some organisations....
Career Acceleration, Coaching, Culture, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Motivation, Purpose
What does it take to love your work? A strong focus on structure. Structure your work so that you do what you love. The Figure below highlights the sequence of organising, prioritising and digitising work. Organise your work to maximise your best skills and...
Culture, Job Satisfaction, Leadership, Performance
Between being engaged, feeling vital, and feeling burnt-out, there’s a lot of stress and pain that may continue for some time. In their research, Michael Leiter and Christina Maslach found that one of the factors that commonly tipped workers into burnout was a sense...
Culture, Inclusion, Leadership
Recent events have shown exclusionary, toxic cultures go right to the very top. Women have become braver in speaking out, raising their voices with emotional intensity, demanding change. But Scott Morrison still doesn’t seem to get it, it is as if he couldn’t relate...
Culture, Increasing effectiveness, Leadership, Performance
I was staggered recently to see a news article entitled ‘Joe Biden isn’t exciting’. I read past this headline to discover the article claimed it was a good thing he wasn’t. When we promote extremes – exciting versus not exciting – we fixate on the binary, and...
Coaching, Culture, Leadership, Purpose
Given the uncertainty and change that’s been in our environment for a while, how well aligned are you with your core values and purpose? Are you keeping them in mind as you go about your routine, or do you find yourself getting caught up in the uncertainty and hype...