Do you get annoyed or frustrated when other people do not hear what you are saying? Are you feeling not listened to and wish that your voice was heard? Is your leadership style one of listening or hearing? Listening Versus Hearing People can listen to you, yet not hear you. They may be listening to
In uncertain times, teams look for certainty, direction and leadership. They turn to business owners and mangers to create certainty for them and to give them a future direction to be enthused about. In the absence of such certainty and clarity, there is a vacuum waiting to be filled. When a vacuum exists, if the
Last week I was afforded an enormous privilege by way of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. That privilege? Meeting former Prime Minister, author, champion of equity, university professor, and perhaps most of all, a person content in their own skin – and owning their own space – Julia Gillard. It was clearly
You have probably heard the expression “Fake it ‘til you make it”. Some people apply this advice to faking confidence until you have it. My view, why fake confidence when you can have it! Here are 4 reasons why faking it is the least preferred solution: 1. Do You Believe It? Firstly, understand that
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat
For those of us who are of a particular vintage, there is an iconic scene in the movie Pretty Woman, where a character says these words: ‘Welcome to Hollywood… what’s your dream?’ So many of us have a dream, or a plan for our future reality; a vision of what our lives and businesses should
The world is becoming increasingly competitive – we can see, feel, almost taste it every day in our own business areas and enterprises. We have the experts telling us how volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous the world it is – and hell yeah, it is. The business of busyness is speeding up as we play
If you have ever wondered why your manager, colleagues, peers, team, prospects, customers and suppliers never or rarely comment on your work or acknowledge you for the good job you have done, this article will provide you with some insights. In addition, this article will assist you with knowing how to acknowledge others -
Connecting, collaborating, communicating. All great words – but they do require us to use another ‘c’ word – courage. They require us to be brave, to step up and drive change through our influential actions and conversations. It still surprises me how many of us put networking in the box which has been labelled in
The small number of female chief executive officers in Australia is about to get even smaller next week when prominent Westpac boss Gail Kelly steps down. Her seven-year tenure at the top began in 2008 at the height of the global financial crisis and since then the number of women on boards of top 100
