Our experience in working with teams, both locally and across the world, tells us that the most effective and successful teams are those in which members understand their reason for being. They have no difficulty explaining why they are working together and can identify their joint measures of success. And they know what the outcome [...]
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” This is a line often attributed to Martin Luther-King, though its origins stretch back to the early 19th century. Regardless, the quote expresses a sentiment that I have been thinking a lot about lately. Our world, I think many of us would agree, is [...]
This month we want to welcome and introduce our newest Fellow, Vicky Lee. Based in Shanghai, China, Vicky’s work focuses on organisational and leadership development and professional coaching. Vicky Lee used to be what she describes as a ‘corporate high flyer’. Her first degree, with which she graduated in 1997, was in marketing. She initially [...]
As you may know, Global Leadership Foundation collaborates with a worldwide network of Fellows with significant expertise in leadership development, strategy, executive coaching and culture change (to name a few of their talents). We are all focussed on raising the emotional health levels of people on the planet and do this in a variety of [...]
For many years now, Global Leadership Foundation has provided leaders with unique opportunities to visit remote locations in order to explore, reflect on and gain new insight and perspectives about themselves, others and their impact on the world around them. During these leadership experiences, participants have time to critically and thoughtfully look at themselves and [...]
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 [...]
