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.
How to Stare down a Bear and prioritise self-care
Prepare your SELF for a market correction Wobbly times strike our global markets. Abundant advice is pushed on how to protect your financial assets (63,800,000 on Google today). What about you? Not your money, your company, your home or your investments but your fundamental core value driver – Y O U. Your physical body, your emotions
Change-Grow-Transform
In this Resilience Insight we look at how we harness the mind to change-grow-transform. Change – a tale of two systems Change is not straightforward – our default position is to operate much of the time on ‘auto pilot’ playing out behaviours that are well established without even thinking about them too much. The brain
Flow Expertise at Work
In the recent Cricket World Cup, Grant Elliot hit a six and took New Zealand to the final. When asked what was in his mind when he hit the ball, without hesitation he said: “NOTHING.” On the brink of loss, he finds FLOW and transforms the hopes of a nation. Flow is a biological state
How women can make it happen
International Women’s day will be celebrated on March 8 with the theme of ‘Make it Happen.’ How resilient we are – our ability to bounce back, have courage, foster creativity and build connection has a direct impact on our level of performance and reaching our potential. At the Resilience Institute we believe we have a
Strategic Resilience
“Existence … is a creative advance into novelty.” Alfred North Whitehead, 1929. Since our ancestor Lucy started the hominin line 3.2 million years ago, humanity has become a pulsing 7.2 billion population of creative forces. Today, Lucy would be over whelmed . Organisations at the front edge of creativity, endlessly redefine our perceptions, behaviours and