Continuing from the theme of last month’s post, ‘Listening without interrupting’, this time we welcome another guest contributor. Sari Ajanko is a leadership coach (an ICF Professional Certified Coach) and trainer of coaching skills as well as being a Global Leadership Foundation Fellow. She lives and works in Finland. One of the most important aspects of [...]
I have just experienced the company of a wonderful group of people from all parts of the world at a Global Leadership Foundation retreat. We represented eight diverse countries and many more communities of practice and learning. Each person bought their own wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom into the space and as we came [...]
Credit: Isengardt This month we would like to welcome a guest contributor to our blog, Karen Jacke, one of the Global Leadership Foundation Fellows. After my last post on the importance of recognition, Karen was telling me about some learning she had been doing on the theme of ‘gratitude’. I felt that topic [...]
By Alex Mills, Project Officer for Opening Doors - A Community Leadership Program For Social Inclusion Adelaide, 2009. Colleen, a lady in her early eighties is referred to Wesley Uniting Care because she is experiencing considerable depression. She had been the primary carer for her partner, who recently passed away. Grieving for the loss of her husband, she [...]
One of our clients has been focused on ensuring its regional management team spends time on understanding the impact they are having on the business, their customers and their people as well as the sales they are making. In a world of achieving great results and making a difference to customers, sales results and customer [...]
Emmanuel Milou - Creative Commons License By Gayle Hardie Today’s workplace is very different from that of only a few years ago. Of course there are differences in technology and the resultant enormous transformations in the way we all work. But it’s more than that. One of the more subtle changes – and [...]
Growing together through generosity of spirit As we come towards the end of another year, the focus of our attention can often shift from what still needs to be achieved in our world of work to what gifts (if any) might be fitting for our friends and family – an interesting and [...]
A few days ago, my drive back to the office was one of those experiences that rigorously tested my ability to stay ‘above the line’. We all have them from time to time. There was a taxi trying to do a U-turn across a clearway, another car stopping mid-stream for no apparent reason, and [...]
At the beginning of my career I trained as an early childhood educator. At that time I was introduced to the works of Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson who had both identified that we grow and develop through a series of stages – in our thinking and our personality respectively. I became fascinated with this [...]
In my last post I shared the ‘Basic Principles’ developed by Jack Zenger and Dale Miller, and their importance to living an emotionally healthy life. There is a fascinating story behind how I was prompted to write that post – one that reinforces our view that there is no such thing as coincidence. Because [...]