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Read our latest insights on learning, consultancy, and coaching.
Rachel Kasa
Apr 10
Your leadership (bandana) brand
Your leadership brand matters - although a jaunty red bandana is optional
Dinah Vincent
Sep 15, 2022
How are you spending your time?
Time was a connecting theme between two books I've read recently: one focused on simplicity; one on remote workplace culture. Both...
Kristen Gyorgak
Apr 25, 2022
3 work lessons from a kids book
One of my best friends recently recommended a book she thought Aunt Kristen (my favourite identity) might be interested in: What are...
Dinah Vincent
Apr 14, 2022
Disordered thinking? Or diverse thinking?
This is part of our series on biases in the workplace. A full list of bias blog posts can be found at the bottom of this blog or here: If...
Dinah Vincent
Mar 22, 2021
Create an inclusive environment
Diversity and inclusion is an obligatory topic in leadership courses now. Sometimes it's the primary focus of a workshop. Sometimes it's...
Kristen Gyorgak
Dec 7, 2020
The no asshole rule
I used to work with an asshole. You might be imagining something like this photo: a person loudly shouting, aggressively swearing, and...
Hilary Bryan
Jul 14, 2020
Only the lonely
We're emerging or have emerged from lockdown. Some people are championing working from home. Personally, I was at home in a crisis trying...
Kristen Gyorgak
Jun 9, 2020
Our most powerful weapon
Thomas Paine, a 1700s political activist in the US, famously said, the pen is mightier than the sword. That’s because words change the...
Dinah Vincent
May 25, 2020
Nurture the link between helping and innovation
Can helping help you? That's a question I posed in a webinar recently—thinking about how to make the most of helping at work. The short...
Kristen Gyorgak
May 18, 2020
Our Friday quizzes
A few weeks back we decided to up our quiz game. Not content with simply ploughing through the Stuff quizzes, we decided that on Fridays...
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Mar 16, 2020
SCARF—a tool to understand reaction to the pandemic?
Threats and rewards are a topic in many of our workshops—they are a way to understand what drives people to behave in particular ways....
Hilary Bryan
Mar 6, 2020
Laughing all the way to a great team
I was working with a team this week and we ended up talking about humour and why it's a powerful ingredient for teams. Years ago I joined...
Hilary Bryan
Jan 28, 2020
Why leaders need to recognise the power of emotion
We assume if we present a logical argument, people will rationally think through their reaction and respond accordingly. But they don’t.
Hilary Bryan
Jan 21, 2020
My word of the year - detach
When we decided at The Training Practice to each choose a word for the year, I was concerned mine sounded negative. So why: detach? Two...
Kristen Gyorgak
Oct 25, 2019
Richie Mo'unga: 8 lessons in 8 minutes
If you’re like me, you’ve spent a solid portion of today thinking and talking about the All Blacks v England semi-final tomorrow. And...
Dinah Vincent
May 20, 2019
Take the lead in preventing bullying
Friday 17 May 2019 was Pink Shirt Day. Pink Shirt Day invites people to wear pink shirts to show they want to stop bullying behaviour by...
Hilary Bryan
Feb 19, 2019
Feedback – why it's complex
Some models are too simplistic Over the years we’ve worked with several different feedback models, and never felt entirely comfortable...
Hilary Bryan
Nov 9, 2018
How Are You Curious?
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” – Dorothy Parker. Well, we hope there isn’t a cure. Last month we...
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