This month we welcome a guest post from our friend and colleague Dayle O’Brien. Dayle is an organisational ecologist whose specific interest is in working with organisations to help create living systems in which both people and the overall business get to thrive. Dayle’s contribution here is timely in B Corp Month 2024 as she [...]
A real highlight of this last month was the 'A Good Day on the Farm' workshop we ran for dairy farmers in Gippsland, alongside Mark Humphris of The Milk Road. The focus of this workshop was emotional health in the specific context of dairy farming and the unique challenges that dairy farmers often face. In [...]
Assembly 2024 is a gathering of B Corps from across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, the first such gathering for five years. The three-day event will be held at Cape Schanck in Victoria from February 26 to 28. Malcolm will be presenting at this year's conference, on the topic 'Head, heart, and gut: Where we [...]
In their ground-breaking book The Extraordinary Leader*, John Zenger and Joe Folkman demonstrate the enormous difference in effectiveness between extraordinary leaders and their ‘average’ counterparts. Translated into our language of emotional health, they show that emotionally healthy leaders at level 3 or higher – those making up the top 20 per cent of leaders – [...]
Our world is full of things that could be better. On that I think we are generally in agreement. Unfortunately, there is also a tendency for some people to sit and wait for others to ‘fix’ it, coming up with many reasons to justify why they can’t do it themselves. In our world of emotionally [...]
We've recently completed the Global Leadership Foundation Annual Report for 2023. In 2023, our work has continued to focus on working with leaders and organisations in the following areas: emotional health and resilience strategic direction and governance engagement and support of young leaders social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. This support is carried out through four [...]
Regular readers of our blog will understand that emotional health is an enhanced state of wellbeing characterised by mindful practices, conscious choices and respectful relationships. An emotionally healthy person is constructive, showing up in a way that has a positive effect on those around them. You will also understand that all of this comes from [...]
One of the characteristics of high levels of emotional health is a deep desire to help others – to make a difference. This reflects the low degree of self-centredness we have discussed previously. However, perhaps somewhat paradoxically, this concern for others can sometimes lead to a shortfall in looking after ourselves. In just the last [...]
In last month’s blog post we explored the notion of community leadership in tough times, the unique challenges sometimes placed on community leaders and the role emotional health can play in helping such leaders navigate these challenges. This month I’d like to continue this line of thought in the context of Australia’s upcoming referendum on [...]
Leadership can be incredibly rewarding … and incredibly challenging. And these extremes are likely never more pronounced than for leaders who operate within communities or with community-based organisations. Communities can place unique demands on the emotional health of their leaders. We have worked with many community leaders over many years. These have ranged from board [...]
