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Leadership

March, 2022

The best advice I ever got was life advice from…

My favourite schoolteacher of all time. She is a currently a grade six teacher. And I was never in any of her classes. I married her instead. This newsletter is a shout out to Mrs. Guinea&nb Read More

March, 2022

What the actual… is going on with all the office politics right now?

What is it with the amount of workplace politics that seem to be happening everywhere? Politics are hard to cope with at times. Until you really understand what is going on, that is. The below mi Read More

March, 2022

Why a safe space is more than psychological safety

Amy Edmondson called it psychological safety. Simon Sinek called it a safe place. We call it a safe space. Same, same, but different.  In our leading under pressure model, and with the suppo Read More

March, 2022

My 28th Explosion Anniversary…

From Physical Safety to Psychological Safety At this time, 28 years ago, I was lying in the intensive care unit of the Gladstone Hospital, with most of the top layers of my skin blown off my hand Read More

March, 2022

Emotional Consistency is not emotional suppression

If I was to do a straw poll of our coaching clients, and I asked them the one thing that they value from their leader, one common answer would be (and yes, we have asked) emotional consistency. O Read More

March, 2022

The lost art of introspection

I wonder if, before we all got sucked into the screens and the sound bites, we spent more time introspecting. Thinking about how we feel, and why. Even if it is just spending time in quiet, and s Read More

February, 2022

The key skill for leading under pressure

The key skill for leading under pressure is empathy. And for those who have heard that before, read on, because not a lot of people really understand what empathy is. In a related blog post (What Read More

February, 2022

Why do most people never learn emotional literacy?

We are born. We go to school. We mature physically. That is sexual maturation. We leave school. We go to work or university. And we think we have reached emotional maturation. Even though we have Read More

February, 2022

Courage – What is it and why does it matter?

Courage is the ability to act when you don’t want to. And because without it, fear will stop you from ever moving forward with purpose. Full stop.  If there is one thing we know about lead Read More

February, 2022

Because Humans are the Key Concern. Always

Boom! You’re a leader, and you’ve just had a catastrophe. The economy has blown up. The plant has blown up. Your life has blown up. What do you do? Here are the three most common responses fr Read More