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 [...]
Over the many years we’ve been writing our blog posts, there is one framework we refer to almost every month. It is emotional health, which is, of course, central to our intent of raising emotional health levels across the globe. In separate posts we have discussed most of the principles that support emotional health, including [...]
We are very excited to share the news that the site of the Ediacara fossil beds in South Australia has now been formally protected as part of a brand new national park. The Nilpena Ediacara National Park opened last month on the western fringe of the Flinders Ranges, on Adnyamathanha country. You may be aware [...]
Yesterday (May 1) marked 20 years since we established Global Leadership Foundation. We’ve previously – on our tenth anniversary! – shared the circumstances that led to the establishment of the foundation, so there’s no need to retell that story this time. What we didn’t talk about so much in that earlier blog post is what [...]
The Opening Doors community leadership program for social inclusion has been running in Melbourne's south-east since 2009. This fortnightly program in Box Hill aims to increase connections and community leadership skills, and is open to all who work, live or play in or near the areas of Whitehorse, Monash or Manningham. The program is provided [...]
Over the years we have had a strong connection with Gippsland, the eastern-most region of Victoria, through involvement with the innovative Gippsland Community Leadership Program (GCLP). Stories of the people of the region are captured in a quarterly magazine, Gippslandia. The latest issue features profiles of two GCLP alumni: Bodye Darvill and Mark Waller. Mark in particular [...]
From time to time, we are asked to describe the ‘benefits’ of emotionally healthy leadership. This tends to come from a traditional perspective of comparing leadership styles: the ‘servant’ leader versus the ‘visionary’ leader versus the ‘affiliative’ leader. It is, of course, a reasonable question, though we would avoid describing emotionally healthy leadership as a [...]
This month we want to share the story of one of our Fellows, YuPeng Qiu, in the first of an occasional series. YuPeng is co-founder of the China-based Whole SELF Leadership Center, through which he provides business consulting, leadership coaching and workshop facilitation services. He also translated the Chinese edition of Working with Emotional Health [...]
When I ask people what they look for from an effective leader in their world of work, terms like ‘respectful’, ‘engaging’, ‘empowering’ and ‘has a positive impact’ often come up. Notwithstanding the volumes and volumes of thinking and research about leadership and management that have been published over many years, for many of us, particularly [...]
