He sat in front of me, shoulders hunched, moving his empty flat white to the side and said: “I used to love my job, was so proud that I worked for this organisation because I could see the difference it was making in our community. Now it’s about the numbers, I constantly feel like I…
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Finding Control through Chaos
Negative Vs Positive
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted two very different calls to action on social media channel. One was entitled “I am cranky”, it’s had 110 likes, 32 comments and 12K views, the other, was asking viewers to acknowledge and celebrate a recent success of theirs or someone they admire in their workplace, this has…
Healthy Mindful Teams
GUEST BLOG CHARLOTTE THAARUP – THE MINDFULNESS CLINIC The demands on teams in 2019 are very different from the demands of more stable, predictable environments decades ago. Today’s teams are characterised by endless change, increasing work demands and high levels of stress. This makes our dependency on healthy strong relationships more acute and essential. Healthy…
Creating a way for funding to stay
It’s 10.30am on a Monday, and myself and a group of seven corporates involved in funding a drought support campaign are assembling for a photo. The collaboration has raised $100,000.00 to assist two organisations in the Upper Hunter’s farming community. The money will be used to provide a counselling service and business education for farmers’…
Make a fresh start to the year
Three weeks in, and unlike previous years it seems that 2019 has not had the usual January ‘lull’ that a company gets. A time where you get to recalibrate and finalise the things that you pushed to the side as you ran out the work door in December to enjoy the holiday season. If this…
Learning to Say NO – Tips for the people pleasers
OUR DEFINITION OF NO In his TEDx talk Kenny Nguyen reminds us of where he learnt the meaning of no. “As children, we would ask our parents “Can I have an ice-cream”, their response “NO”, “Can I play with Traffic” – “NO”, “Can I wear my PJ’s to school” – “YEAH NAH….” And the no…
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