Leading from home – a new normal?
Let’s start with this - video conferencing is fatiguing. Our brains can only consciously process so much information at once because we have limited working memory. Because of its features,…
6 Essential Tips for Leading Remote Teams
Remote leadership can feel like a totally different challenge than leading people you work with - side by side. How you interact with your team in an office does not…
Top Tips for Managing a Remote Team
The Australian Industry Group recently reported that “TIME magazine believes that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) may just have triggered the biggest ‘work from home experiment’ that the world has ever seen.”…
Leading Your Team Through a Crisis
If you are in any sort of managerial role during the era of the global coronavirus pandemic, you know that your daily “to do” list just expanded to include activities…
Talking About Mental Health
The expression “PC” or “politically correct,” has entered the common vernacular around the globe, but can mean many different things. In some areas, it can mean the avoidance of potentially…
Getting The Best From Flexible Work
Working from home has gone from a value add in many organisations to a must-have. As a result, there are managers and team leaders everywhere having to learn quickly what…
Supporting a team member’s mental health needs
As a manager or leader, there are a number of practical things you can do to support individuals in the workplace who are experiencing a mental health condition. Some ways…
8 Strategies for Creating a Positive Workplace
1. Be a good example First, examine your own behaviour. Are you walking the positive talk or are you mumbling beneath your breath, “Not another Monday.” It is important to…