Growth Mindset

The Age: Don’t Shy Away from Feedback at Work. Instead, Do This

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Featured in The Age on Saturday, April 12, 2025, Michelle shows how leaders can promote embracing feedback at work by overcoming feedback resistance and negativity bias with emotional management and a growth mindset.  Feedback. Just one word, and most of us instinctively brace ourselves. Yet, while it might feel uncomfortable, dodging it could be the […]

Kochie’s Business Builders: How to Build a Self-Care Plan in 5 Easy Steps

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You’re not alone if you feel like you’re crawling to the finish line of 2024. It’s been another big year of change, uncertainty, and unpredictability. In times like these, investing in self-care might seem like a selfish luxury but it’s not. You can’t truly care for others without first caring for yourself. Thanks to Kochie’s […]

Bsale: 5 Strategies for Thriving in a Fast-Paced Workplace

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Thanks to Bsale, Michelle shares five practical strategies to thrive in a fast-paced workplace, emphasizing the importance of a growth mindset to succeed while navigating the challenges of a fast-paced workplace and thriving at work. In today’s dynamic business landscape, Chiefs of Staff are pivotal players, navigating the whirlwind of organisational change, juggling multiple responsibilities, […]

Who’s controlling who?

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Control. It’s a powerful word. Control is a concept that exists across the spectrum of our personal and professional lives. We love to feel like we are in control of what we do, who we are, why we do something and where we are heading. Feeling in control, feels good, comforting even. Given that our […]

Are you a change ready leader?

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If you’ve worked in any organisation for a while, you’ll likely have experienced some form of organisational change. Sadly, it’s also likely that your experience of the change may have been sub-par. The history of organisational change is littered with examples of projects and initiatives that didn’t go to plan. Never finished. Descoped. Poorly implemented […]

Six ways to set your Wise Owl free

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If you are a regular reader, you’ll know I only rarely write an article that follows on from the previous week. However, following last Friday’s weekly insight, I received lots of emails. The general sentiment being, ‘Michelle – great article, but how do I tap into my wise owl?” This week, I will share tips […]

Is winning the only goal?

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Like many Australians, last weekend I sat down to watch the AFL Grand Final, and as with any final there can only be one winner. Naturally, that’s the objective of both sides – to win. But as I was watching the very one-sided game, it got me thinking – Are there times when there are […]