The Once-a-Year Challenge How refreshing it is to be presented with a personal challenge which has a ripple-like effect on other aspects of your life. During a recent interview with a high-performing sales leader based in Melb...
The IDEA of Feedback (1 minute read) Feedback : (definition) “Providing information that alerts another person to the potential or actual outcomes from a certain action or behaviour.” Feedback often gets a bad rap. Just m...
The Witch of Wall Street (2 minute read) It is documented that when J.P. Morgan – founder of one of the most powerful banking houses in the world – called a meeting of New York’s financial leaders after the famous stock marke...
How Trust Can Be Banked (1 minute read) Trust is a dynamic force that is built through consistent, reliable, and accountable actions, and can be broken in an instant by betrayal or an incident of untrustworthy behaviour. Whi...
Building Your Own Career (2 minute read) “Be so good they can’t ignore you!” (Steve Martin) Navigating your personal career direction remains one of the more discussed and debated topics amongst peers and colleagues. At some ...
Can You Retrain Your Brain? (2 minute read) Have you ever caught yourself or another person saying, “ it’s just the way I’ve always done it ”. Now, let’s not dismiss the importance of tried and tested methods to complete a task ...
Deciding to Decide (2 minute read) “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing!” (Theodore Roosevelt) It’s a Fr...
Do, Delegate, Diarise or Delete Considered the pioneer of Time and Motion Studies , Frederick W. Taylor dedicated much effort to reducing time wastage, while maximising efficiency. Originating in the 1880’s, Taylor’s insights and fi...
Where does learning lead? Philosopher and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, once famously stated; “ Life is a journey, not a destination.” Indeed, the journey is what provides us with such rich and valuable memories – we learn along ...
Deep Learning Doesn’t Happen in Shallow Pools Whether you are aware of it or not, there are attention traps everywhere you turn. Scrolling through your inbox, checking your group chats and social media for the latest updates, or attending some me...
Wellbeing and Happiness leads to Wellness Let’s accept that our physical and mental state can directly impact our relationships and performance in business and personal pursuits. Wellbeing incorporates the health of the whole person – physica...
Retreating to Advance (2 minute read) TGIF* has a following like few other 4-letter acronyms. It conjures images of city-based employees, watching the clock as it creeps toward that time where they are released from their ...