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“Thank F#ck it’s Friday” I remember saying under my breath when I woke from an interrupted night’s sleep on November 23rd, 2022 up in the northeast of Victoria some two and a bit hours from home. And then it hit me like what I’d describe as a forceful punch in the guts that stopped me in my […]

I think the concept of having separate personas for work and for life is BS. There, I said it. It’s symptomatic of a psychologically unsafe workplace. If you feel you can’t be your authentic self at work, if you believe you have to step into a role, then something is fundamentally broken.  The core of my work […]

People with highly transferable skills may be specialists in certain areas, but they’re also incredible generalists – something businesses that want to grow need.” — Leah Busque You know the drill by now. The most technically proficient humans tend to be the ones promoted, even though many organisations today talk of hiring for attitude and training for skill. It […]

“Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered”-UnknownWhy are the words “hard” and “soft” rolled out to describe the skills that a manager needs to possess and execute on to be successful in their day to day job?How is it that the more technical skills; the ones usually aligned to competence […]

Beware The Mythical Creatures In Our Workplace ​​ Ever noticed the language we use to describe ourselves or a group when things are going along very nicely in the workplace, or even in the world? Go on have a guess………. It’s usually something like ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘me’ or even at times ‘I’. What about when […]

Bubble wrap plays a very important role in protecting the integrity of something that is valuable to we humans. A piece of fine China handed down over generations, that expensive new laptop or big screen television, or one I see quite regularly a bottle of boutique gin and tonic meticulously wrapped so that it turns […]

I have been having some fun with the participants in my Human Manager Experience in an exercise that is based upon understanding ones Management style. The exercise involves the participants using their own experiences and insights on where they default to and also what might trigger them to leap from one style to another. Believe […]

Have you ever been to a training session called ‘How to Have Difficult Conversations?’ I have and I have great difficulty with that. The difficulty is that we use the word ‘difficult’. Oh……….and all of a sudden guess what they become? Difficult and almost certainly conflictual and confrontational. What if we called them conversations? The […]

How Did I End Up Here? Have you ever sat for a minute or two and wondered how you ended up here? Here can be many things: Your job, family, the town you live in, state of mind……….. How about doing the same for other humans? It’s something Allison raised as we have been driving […]