We don't know how lucky we are - worldwide corruption isn't improving
We don't know how lucky we are. It's a familiar saying to many of us and it hit home to me this week. Three new New Zealanders in our...
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Kristen Gyorgak
- Oct 25
Make your lizard brain happier at work
Why do gloves have 5 fingers? 🧤 Because gloves go on our hand and our hand has five fingers. ✋ Ok, pretty obvious. Just like gloves were...
Hilary Bryan
- Oct 20
6 mental health basics for everyday
We follow the work of The Resilience Institute and refer to its ideas in our workshops. Its latest research on mental health is a good...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Sep 4
Check your team's well-being
Last month I read an article by Brad Hook: What Can Resilient Technology Teach Us About Building Resilient Teams? In the article, Hook...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Jul 14
New ways to celebrate New Years
This year was the first time I celebrated four different New Years within one calendar year. In fact, before this year, I had never...
Hilary Bryan
- Jul 10
It's the details that matter to build the team
It might sound like a cliche to look at the Crusaders for lessons in strong team dynamics. But it's worth it. In March this year, Rā...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Jul 9
5 Types of Retrospectives for your team
Embrace the Mamba Mentality The late, great Kobe Bryant coined the term ‘Mamba Mentality.’ He describes it as getting 1% better every day...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Jul 3
🏆🏀Team lessons from the 2023 NBA Champs 🏆🏀
Well, it's the first month of no NBA basketball (bitter), but the 2023 playoffs were amazing and the Denver Nuggets won their first ever...
Hilary Bryan
- Jun 27
Is the Future for Local Government the future of local government?
After two years, we've now got the final report of the panel set up to look into the future of local government, He piki tūranga, he piki...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Jun 1
Sticking points and team tension
When you're working within a team, you're bound to have some tensions that arise from time to time. Maybe the tensions are small and...
Hilary Bryan
- May 22
The words we use say so much about us
I was with a group online recently working through leading inclusive teams. We got talking about calling in (asking questions about...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Apr 21
Where does spirituality fit in at work?
This is part of our blog series on Intelligences at work. Check out other intelligence blogs here. The idea of spirituality at work might...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Apr 17
The Culture Map
This blog is part of our new series on intelligences at work. One way to grow your cultural intelligence is to learn more about cultures....
Kristen Gyorgak
- Apr 5
4 ways to strengthen your Gentelligence
This is part of our blog series on Intelligences at work. Check out other intelligences here. Do you understand age and generational...
Kristen Gyorgak
- Mar 24
Appreciative intelligence: See the oak from the acorn
This is part of our blog series on Intelligences at work. Check out other intelligences here. Our brains operate with a negativity bias....
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