Wrapping Up 2025: Moments, Margins and the Magic of Awe
Publication: leadership reflection | Leadership resilience | marginal gains | psychological capital | Reflective Practice
If you are staring at the calendar, wondering how it is possible that we are once again a few weeks from the end-of-year festivities, you are not alone. As one friend likes to say, the years feel faster because of proportionality – as we age, each year is a smaller slice of a longer life. […]
Is your learning mantra just rhetoric?
Publication: Behaviour change | Learning Culture | Reflective Practice
There are hundreds of quotes and sayings about the importance and value of learning. We hear phrases like learning culture, fail fast, and learn your way ahead, as well as processes such as agile that are based on a learning mantra. It can be easy to talk about the importance of learning, but are you […]
How to slow down, to speed up
Publication: Decision Fatigue | Reflective Practice | Time management | Work Pacing
Surprisingly, the 2016 census found that the length of the working week for most Australians hasn’t increased since 2011. And yet, most of us feel pressed for time and with an electronic device in each hand it can feel as though we never quite switch off from work. With ‘busy’ being the new catch-cry, it […]
Do you own your mistakes?
Publication: accountability | Learning from Mistakes | Owning mistakes | Reflective Practice
Everybody makes mistakes. We are all human and making mistakes and occasionally ‘stuffing up’ is part of the human condition. There’s no doubt a lot of learning can be derived from understanding why an error has occurred. Consequently, there’s accepted wisdom that making mistakes is good for us. However, this notion can create a false […]