Are you a True Leader? Through my almost 20 years of working in the people development space - learning and researching different approaches to leadership, training leadership, coaching and mentoring leaders - not to mention being in leadership roles within my career and now through my business - I feel like I know a thing […]

Recently I watched the documentary Future Dreaming HD that got me thinking about words and language. How the words we use and the way that we use them creates separation, from each other and from our planet. The morning after watching this documentary, I was going about my usual morning getting ready activities and listening […]

In last month's newsletter, I wrote to our readers about forgiveness, particularly forgiveness of self. In today's blog I want to share some thoughts on the forgiveness of others, because this of course is important too. I've experienced pain...betrayal, bullying, bitchiness, various "-isms" and just plain rude uncalled for behaviour. As I experienced the pain […]

Through my career I've only worked in a few places where a uniform was required. The first time when working in a supermarket, it makes a lot of sense from a being able to be spotted by customers perspective, but even there, there were employees who would wear their own trousers or skirts because the […]

  A different way to deal with and move through hard times. The problem with seeking out people going through the same thing as you so you can have empathy, sympathy and a feeling of knowing you're not alone - misery likes misery. Instead be seek out positive people, connections that remind you of things […]

Did you ever have that feeling when you were younger, maybe in your teens or your early twenties when the guy (or girls) that you had a crush on all of a sudden started dating someone else? The dread, the sorrow, the upset...and you'd soon find yourself putting on some music or a movie, perhaps. […]

Have you ever got a sore neck and wondered what and how you did it? Or any other ailment or condition? I remember a colleague of mine complaining of a neck ache...wondering if it was because of a change in his computer screen height, his new pillows at home, how he was sitting, if he'd […]

Authenticity has become a real buzz word in the last few years. So much so that it seems that everyone and everything is claiming to be authentic. But what does it really mean to be authentic. Let's start by looking at some definitions. Defining authentic and authenticity Authentic: Oxford dictionary: of undisputed origin and not […]

Rubbish in, rubbish out. We've all likely heard this in the world of data and systems. Rubbish data is much worse than no data. In my role HR Director at The Palladium Group, I pressed upon value of data, and even more quality data. Much to many of my colleagues annoyance when I was constantly […]

In a recent AHRI networking forum, one of the panelists talked about poor performance being a difficult conversation. This got me thinking...why is it a difficult conversation? My first thought was that we as a business population have created a huge generational perception around what it is to have a conversation about performance expectations not […]