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HERE’S HOW TO MAKE 2016 YOUR BEST YEAR EVER!

I hope you’ve had a great year and are looking forward to a well earned break. But before you sign off, let me ask you an important question. What decisions have you made about 2016 that will make it your best year ever? Maybe you haven’t thought about it yet and will when you get back …

LEADERSHIP LESSONS FROM THE HAYNE PLANE

Possibly the biggest story in Australian sport this year is about National Rugby League player, Jarryd Hayne, who has just been signed by the San Francisco 49ers to play professional football in the USA. Even if you are not a sports nut there are plenty of leadership lessons to learn from the man they call ‘The …

THE ANNUAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW IS DEAD … OR IS IT?

The thought of the dreaded annual performance review leaves many with cold sweats. There has been much celebration at the news that one of the world’s largest professional services companies, Accenture, will soon stop doing annual performance reviews with its 330,000 employees. Read more here. It is likely that many will follow suit. But before you …

5 THINGS GREAT LEADERS DO EVERY DAY

Leadership is a habit, a practice. Great leaders do the same outstanding things over and over, day in day out. Here are five things that great leaders do every day. 1. Think about tomorrow. We get so caught up with what is right in our face that we can forget about the future. Great leaders always …

WILL YOU PASS THE ‘LEADERSHIP LICENCE TEST’?

So, before you are allowed to do a lot of things in life, you need to pass a test. Like drive a car, perform surgery or build a bridge. It’s kind of important that if you are going to potentially affect people’s lives or property that you show that you know what you are doing. Leading …

WHERE IS YOUR FOCUS – PAPERWORK OR PEOPLE WORK?

Most of us have conflicting priorities and are time poor. How do we get everything done that needs to be done? When we have lots of things demanding our attention, which ones do we do first? A trap that many of us fall into is to focus on the things that scream loudest. These might include meeting …

CREATING ACCOUNTABILITY

“The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.” ~ Michael Armstrong Can you imagine what it would be like in your organisation if no …

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