For the past 10 years, I have had the honour of being part of the team facilitating the ‘Opening Doors’ Social Inclusion Community Leadership Program. Running over six months each year, it provides leadership development to around 20 community members from Melbourne’s east and south-east who are passionate about working towards a more socially inclusive [...]
We are privileged to work with many organisations that are changing their cultures to support their purpose and direction. It is rewarding to be part of the team supporting an organisation’s people to develop a picture of what they want, and then to build the behaviours, symbols and systems that will enable that picture to [...]
February is B Corp Month. It’s an opportunity to better understand the movement of private companies that use their business as a ‘force for good’ – a feature of moving towards a new economy. For those of you who are familiar with Global Leadership Foundation, it won’t come as a surprise to know that back [...]
It is interesting to look back on the year that has been 2017 and reflect on the content of the blog posts we have shared over this time. When I did just that, what was unexpected was the emergence of an underlying theme in all of them around making conscious choices to affect who you [...]
I’ve been reflecting a lot about the #MeToo campaign that has developed over the past few weeks on social media. In case you missed it, the campaign started after a tweet from American actress Alyssa Milano who asked any woman who has been sexually harassed or assaulted to change their ‘status’ to ‘Me too’. That [...]
This month we welcome guest blogger in Mark Waller, one of our Community Fellows*. Mark is Station Maintenance Superintendent at AGL Loy Yang. He has 31 years’ heavy industrial experience, with interests including improving his leadership effectiveness via increased emotional health, mentoring people, reading and overseas travel adventures. Each evening, after another unrelenting day’s work, my fiancée Janice [...]
It is so interesting to see the world of leadership engaging with the word ‘caring’. Finally the importance of building and strengthening genuine and supportive relationships is being recognised as integral to effective leadership. What is valuable in exploring this amazing quality is recognition that caring comes in a variety of forms. It is so [...]
If you are a regular reader of this blog, you’ve probably become reasonably familiar with one of the key concepts associated with emotional health: the notion of the automated response. You’ll understand that one of the keys to improved emotional health is the ability to catch your automated responses before they happen, instead responding in [...]
When we are describing a leader with high emotional health levels we are describing someone who engages in mindful practices and makes ‘conscious choices’ in their decision making. What does this mean? What are conscious choices and why are they an important aspect of emotionally healthy leadership? When a leader is under pressure to make [...]
If you’ve ever felt that the world is racing ahead of you, that the challenges just keep coming and there seems to be a new disruption around every corner, you’re not alone. In fact, it is well recognised by scientists that the pace of development of our human brains lags a long way behind today’s [...]
