The All Blacks have famously mastered resilience through a model of Red versus Blue behaviours. In Red we are overloaded, confused and at risk. Think quarter finals against France in 2007. The All Blacks realised that they had to master the Blue state: calm, clear and skilful. The shift was drilled in practice, in matches […]
The Professional’s Pain
How to create a good and productive life Professionals face the sharp edge of acceleration – productivity, technology and connection with meaningful work. At the same time, they seek Eudaimonia (a good life). The pace has become overwhelming. How does one solve this paradox? After 28 years working for Professional firms, here are some perspectives […]
Resilient Leadership in a Nutshell
Insight, mastery, connection and influence Resilience searches are booming and many definitions exist. We believe it is a learned ability to demonstrate bounce, courage, connection and creativity. This set of skills is closely interrelated. Bounce requires courage, connection and creativity. Equally, creativity requires bounce, courage and connection. While interrelated, cultivating resilient leadership is a journey that […]
Global Resilience Diagnostic Report
Resilience Delivers It is with great pleasure that we present our Global Resilience Diagnostic Report for 2016. Based on 26,099 assessments and over a million data points, we can offer you a fascinating glimpse of how people function has become a dynamic and key feature of business. Our goal is to keep people safe, well and […]
The future of leadership training
The problem HBR October 2016 article “Why Leadership Training Fails” by Beer, Finnstrom and Scrhrader poses a radical rethink on training. Organisations spent US$356 billion on training in 2015 with questionable returns. The implications are uncomfortable. We take it seriously. To serve our clients we have to work at this. In a nutshell, training does […]
Coaching for Team Flow
A practice guide for coaching exceptional teams We have worked hard to help people be better team members and leaders to be better at supporting their teams. Yet the team is clearly an organism in its own right. Team performance is in the spotlight. We know that team behaviours determine performance. How might the science […]
Tilting the Axis of Good and Evil
Empathy, Candour, Altruism, Deceit and Trickery Five words define the crucible of civilization and the battle between conflict and progress. This is true in our relationships, communities, businesses and nations. Whether it is Brexit, the current US election, climate threat, rich getting richer, or data security, we decide based on our judgement of these five […]
Safe + Well + Effective
Initiatives to deliver safety, wellbeing (physical, emotional and cognitive) and effectiveness are in the ascendant – more demand, more providers and higher expectations. Increasingly, legislation is pushing responsibility for employee health and safety to senior management and directors. We have come a long way in a couple of decades. Exploring five questions can help directors […]
Chief Resilience Officer
Board and CEO take note. Resilience is a foundation for an organisation to survive and thrive. Organisational development in the last 25 years has focused on optimisation, speed and safety. The result is fragility. A fragile organisation suffers painful distress and malfunction in times of disruption. Optimisation removes the redundancy necessary to bounce back from adversity. […]