Our thinking

Dinah Vincent

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5 May 2021

Move from languishing to flourishing

Dinah gives herself a path to flourishing after recognising she's been languishing.

Dinah Vincent

Webinar

29 April 2021

Tea & Toast: Recognising cultures in managing change

Organisational change projects are often about changing corporate culture - and the approach comes from a corporate perspective. What can corporate culture change projects learn from how different national or identity cultures view and manage change?

Dinah's Tea & Toast for April put an inclusive and innovative lens over approaches to change management.

Hilary Bryan

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29 March 2021

Lessons from a dull Saturday night: losing and failure

How do we cope with failure and losing, particularly if it's ongoing? Hilary got some clues from Daryl Gibson's thesis, Leading While Losing: Elite Coaches' Pespectives on Losing Streaks.

Kristen Gyorgak

webinar

26 March 2021

Tea & Toast: The Tyranny of Metrics

"Not everything that is important is measurable, and much that is measurable is unimportant." | Jerry Muller

Metrics of all shapes and sizes are part of our lives. We set metrics for ourselves, our lives, our work, and our teams as a way to measure how things are going. That makes sense. But our desire to increase accountability, transparency, and effectiveness, combined with the newest technologies has led us into an era of metric fixation.

Dinah Vincent

Blog post

21 March 2021

Create an inclusive environment

Who feels included in your workplace? What messages do staff and visitors get from the signs and objects you have on display?

Dinah Vincent

Blog post

14 March 2021

Levelling the field for psychological safety

Want to create a psychologically safe workplace? Check the basics to minimise the threat of workplace sexual harassment.

Hilary Bryan

blog post

8 March 2021

I am woman, hear me yawn

According to research, the COVID pandemic "laid waste to swaths of the female workforce at a time when there were multiple encouraging signs for women at the highest levels of corporate America"

Hilary Bryan

Event, webinar

25 February 2021

Tea & Toast: Creating a Human-Centred Workplace

Hilary touched on some familiar themes here: openness, autonomy and innovation. And she put our practical, how-to twist on it as well.

Hilary Bryan

Blog post

18 February 2021

Two effects of COVID on women - true in Aotearoa?

Are we losing women in the leadership pipeline in Aotearoa, as a result of COVID?

Hilary Bryan

Blog post

15 February 2021

Learning from optimists

I've come to terms with a side of my personality - a lack of optimism - and am trying to counter it.
That's maybe why I focus on people who are optimistic and try to learn from them.