Our European team and number of clients have spent the last days at the Mind & Life Conference in Brussels. It has been an enlightening and inspiring connection with a joyous community. We would like to share the highlights and strongly recommend Mind and Life Institute as a noble cause. Mind and Life started in […]
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 […]
Tough Love Talking
Human interactions lie on a bell curve from acts of wanton violence to joyous collaboration. Every day we witness interactions from the full spectrum and live our lives in our own particular zone of competence. The pain of wanton destruction where people and societies degrade their interactions towards the left is clear to all. […]
The Art and Science of Expertise
The methodology for how to be your best is becoming a systematic science and art. With a number of new and complimentary themes, this article explores what we know and how to apply it. What are the main themes? How do we make this personally meaningful? Expert performance can involve four distinct sets of players. […]
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 […]
Grateful and Present
The sun is shining, it is warm and people are out having fun. We forget the long winter and are soaked in a feeling of goodness. Life is good. It is wonderful to be alive. Gratitude is the core of this experience. If you can pause, soak up that gratitude and generate clear associated thoughts, […]
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. […]
Emotional Intelligence leads Australia
Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull in a recent interview on ABC explained that his emotional intelligence would help him relate to everyday Australians. “To be able to sit down with them on a train or in the street, hear their story, and have the imagination to understand how they feel. Emotional intelligence is probably the […]
Mindless or Mindful?
Mindfulness can be a confusing idea with many interpretations. With world mindfulness day upon us, it is timely to consider best practice for this most unique of human capacities. Neurobiology shows clearly that humans can train their minds. Specific practices train the mind effectively. The benefit is measured by structural change in the brain, functional […]