Our thinking
Here's what we have to say about everything
Hilary Bryan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Hilary Bryan
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Lessons from the innovators
This Saturday night there was nothing worth watching on TV, so my husband and I watched a programme he'd recorded a while before. And I'm glad we did.
Dinah Vincent
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Tea & Toast: Workplace trends unfurling in 2021
Dinah kicks off Tea & Toast for 2021 with a response to Brian Kropp's HBR article on trends that will shape work this year.