Over the past year 15 years, I have been involved producing great Australian music. The most recent effort has seen me work with Raf Rouco and 12 musicians to release, Shoot The Moon, on 26 September 2019, exactly 50 years since the release of the Beatles, Abbey Road. This is the third record that I […]

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Amy Morin has written an important article entitled, 11 Anger Management Strategies That Can Help You Calm Down Fast: https://www.verywellmind.com/anger-management-strategies-4178870 In the article, Morin offers strategies based on cognitive behavioural interventions to better respond to challenges and control our anger. In addition to Morin’s strategies, I personally use the S.T.O.P. technique which we have discussed previously If you […]

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Amy Dawel has written a great article that describes the pitfalls of focusing on outcomes and results rather than purpose and values.  Her canvas is the journey of the Richmond Tigers who went from 13th in 2016 to premiers in 2017 and 2019. To turn the club around, Richmond coach, Damien Hardwick stopped focusing on winning […]

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Many of us are  familiar with the 70:20:10 learning and development model that advocates experiential learning (70%), learning from others (20%) and formal learning (10%)  – here is a different take from Dr. William Glasser, M.D. the Amercian Psychiatrist who developed Choice Theory and Reality Therapy. Click on link to see the Glasser’s learning model:  what-we-learn 1   […]

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In July 2019, I attended the World Congress on Positive Psychology.  Listening to world-class researchers was a joy. A few of the ideas which resonated with me: By empowering, strengthening, connecting and inspiring, leaders can can drive work engagement via the satisfaction of work-related psychological needs (autonomy, competence, relatedness and meaningfulness) Leaders can influence organisational […]

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By Peter Barraket: There are quantifiable benefits for increasing diversity in your leadership ranks. A study by McKinsey & Company titled Diversity Matters[1] concluded: Companies in the top quartile for gender diversity were 15% more likely to have financial returns above their national industry median; Companies in the top quartile for ethnic diversity were 35% […]

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Watching a re-run of the ‘Big Bang Theory’, Penny complains to Bernadette, ‘I want to be passionate about something like you guys’ to which Bernadette responds, ‘You just have to try lots of things to see what you really enjoy!’ Despondent, Penny replies, ‘That sounds like too much hard work.’ The truth is that passion […]

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Are you doing enough to create great customer experiences? Our colleague Peter Barraket has lifted the bar on what a great experience looks like and built a check list that allows you to audit how well you are doing.   Click on the image below and identify ways that you can create a more meaningful […]

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is constant; that energy can be transformed from one form to another, but can be neither created nor destroyed – the total energy that exits is constant. I have been thinking about this a lot lately.  More and more of us appear to […]

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The successful organisation of the future will be staffed by employees adept at collaboration, communication, empathy and cognitive flexibility – they will be emotionally intelligent and resilient.  In an uber competitive, technologically automated future, the successful workforce will be highly aligned, engaged, agile, inclusive and at its core, able to leverage diverse thinking and collective […]

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