Expensive team building activities can be a complete waste of money because they don't address the real problems teams face. A lovely day out of the office participating in things such as a cooking class, bowling or building a raft provides a short-term bonding...

Working long hours and burning the candle at both ends is symptomatic of a world that glorifies being busy. When you are a leader it is so important to model the kind of behaviour you want the people in your team to emulate. There is strength in saying no and answers...

Are you an over thinker? Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed? It may be because you are over-analysing all your decisions. When you are in a leadership role you need to make so many decisions during one day, you can feel like you are on a hamster wheel of endless...

All too often, corporate culture perpetuates a cycle of burnout amongst its leaders, which leads to the inevitable consequence of fire fighting. This is when an individual deals with unexpected problems using temporary solutions, instead of spending time and effort to...

June is done, and many of us are working towards our big summer break, but is the thought of trying to get three weeks' work done in one week before you go on holiday filling you with dread? A sun lounger somewhere hot has your name on it, but you need to work through...

Teams are made of people, but you know that right? Sometimes people just don’t get along and I guess you probably know that too. It isn’t always an explosive or an obvious personality clash that can be the problem. Sometimes the difficulties in a team are covert, and...

Resilience has become a real buzzword but are organisations truly investing in building resilience for their employees or are they just paying lip service to it? Building resilience goes beyond self-care. It starts with self-awareness. If it’s done right, it can lead...

It’s International Women’s Day, and our feeds are going to be flooded with inspirational women and quotes. Overkill? Never! It’s so important to celebrate the women in our lives. Don’t get me wrong it’s also important to say thanks to the men too, but not today. Today...

 I was recently inspired by a brilliant quote from Elizabeth Dialto. “There are plenty of people out there today, that are over consuming and under-integrating” This quote really resonated with me because of the work I do around change. So many times I’ve been...

Is the business of life passing you by? As a leader are you missing the things on your doorstep that are important to you? We have passed the point of midwinter and the days are finally start to get lighter. The time between Christmas and New Year is a great time to...