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 […]
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 […]
Hope or Habit: Success Rituals
Last month I had the privilege of sharing stories with a number of world class leaders. One of them is an icon of the deal. He tells the story of a career of finding his way into the most risky and profitable business zones that his colleagues barely comprehend. Sure he has lost some, but he […]
How to build a sustainable high-performance organisation
There are significant benefits in building a sustainable high performance organisation. Stuart Taylor explains how to build a culture of high performance and details the role of HR leaders in the process The idea of five- to 10-year strategic plans is now out the window for many organisations. Now the focus is on developing a […]
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 […]