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This is a favourite subject for us in our leadership and communications workshops. So, it’s good to come across some useful additions to...

Over the years, we’ve kept an eye on Grant Thornton’s research on women and leadership and found it useful. Its 2018 report: Women in...

We’ve been working with resilience and positive psychology ideas for many years. Many approaches have common threads, such as...

Some models are too simplistic Over the years we’ve worked with several different feedback models, and never felt entirely comfortable...

Sometimes so-called improvements are anything but. More features just equal more clutter. But that’s not the case with the new and...

To be truly effective you need to have 2 key ingredients present in your conversations. You need to show you care personally, and...

Call it what you will – People Capability, Talent, HR – it’s taking up agile. Well, at least in some organisations it’s taking up agile....

“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...

Gallup is well and truly steaming ahead with business agility. But what do they mean by agile? For them it’s simple: the ability of an...

I’ve just spent two days immersed in Business Agility at the Sydney Business Agility Institute Conference. Here are key lessons I’ve...

What makes people feel comfortable to be who they are at work? It’s far more likely to be emotion, rather than logic. After all, who’d...

Do you like certainty? Well, try listening to any song you know well. You know the next part of the tune and words that go with it. And...

Want to get to grips with agile, particularly business agility? Three important laws will get you thinking, then going. Without them, and...

If there’s one key theme that’s emerging with this government it’s well-being. And it applies to central and local government. Let’s look...

Check out Hilary’s new video blog. Transcript Do you like writing long words and complicated sentences? And do you think if you do that,...