Your leadership is important – for your team, your organisation and your career. New research from Hudson has uncovered leadership development as the top people priority for Australian and New Zealand HR decision-makers in 2016¹. Take stock of your leadership progress As you head down the home straight for...
Last week Melbourne hosted Australia’s first all-women comedy featuring our country’s best female comics. It was ‘frocking hilarious’ as the event name aptly describes – and my ticket to go was a great early birthday present. Humour is the fastest way to connect with others What I noticed was...
Are you – like most people – frequently feeling busy and thinly stretched? Where the size of your ‘to do’ list seems to get in the way of discerning what’s important and what’s urgent. So while everything seems urgent and ticking tasks off provides relief and accomplishment – you...
Hesta’s CEO Debby Blakey shared her top “4 Keys To Get To The Top of The Corporate Ladder” at an Executive Women Australia MasterClass event last week. Whatever your career aspirations are, these insights and self-reflective questions will help optimise your performance and leadership along the way. 1. Know...
Great teams with a great culture can achieve amazing things – and create competitive advantage along the way (take Zappos and software provider Atlasssian whose values based cultures drive every part of their business). Culture is much more than the common expression of “it’s the way we do things...
Good leaders, reflecting on their own performance, start within the context of culture – “how are we riding as a team right now?” Is my team happy? Are my key stakeholders happy? Are we living the values we agreed? Are we improving where it counts, and is our pace...
Your team’s greatest skill is their ability to think – critically and creatively One of the common frustrations I hear from mid-level managers is the belief “my team isn’t stepping up”. Often times, they’re caught up being too hands on ‘managing today’ rather than ‘creating tomorrow’, and they’ve become...
I’m often surprised when I talk to people about leadership – about what it is and what makes an effective leader – the conversation typically covers what they need to ‘do’ to be a leader. People sometimes ask: “What can I do to turn things around?” “Why aren’t I...