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 [...]
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 [...]
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours…” Henry David Thoreau Some time ago I wrote two blog posts (here and here) explaining the concept of ‘intent’ – a concept which is [...]
‘Leadership’ has become a holy grail of the last decade or two. Scores of books, journal articles and research papers have been dedicated to the task of trying to understand what great leadership is and how it might be replicated. There are countless ‘shopping lists’ of outstanding leadership characteristics, with the implication that all one [...]
As we passed the tenth anniversary of Global Leadership Foundation last week, it was appropriate that Malcolm and I found ourselves working with a group of leaders on Tetepare in the Solomon Islands. Our work on Tetepare is at the heart of what we aspired to achieve when we established the Foundation on April 30, [...]
In my first post explaining the background of Global Leadership Foundation, I mentioned in passing the role of QuantumThink®. The importance of this concept and the processes behind it can’t be overstated in its influence on the way Global Leadership Foundation started, and continues to operate today.
As I indicated in my previous blog, a major contribution to the creation of Global Leadership came from my experience as an Earthwatch volunteer at Arid Recovery in the remote South Australian desert. I have long felt an affinity for this country, having spent my early childhood not far away in Woomera and wandered with my sister on the gibber plains and clay pans near our home. Today, whenever I think of this land I experience a calm and reflective feeling.