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 [...]
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 [...]
In last month’s blog post we revisited the concept of ‘above and below the line’ and explored what we can do to move ourselves above the line, to a higher level of emotional health, should we find ourselves below it. In our work with organisations, a similar question often arises with respect to teams. A [...]
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 [...]
