If we were students of philosophy we would turn to the great thinkers of our past like Immanuel Kant to help us through tough times. We would find solace in the conclusion that in Covid in Australia, we are all Kantians. Bemoaning the loss of philosophy in Australian education I often bemoan the loss of […]
Many organisations are achieving gender equality in their working practices by adopting more flexible work practices as part of their Hybrid Workplace strategy. They are doing this to align to the expectations of their employees for flexibility and especially for women demanding greater support in managing work and home life. Notable examples are Telstra, ANZ,
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I had an argument with someone I care about the other day…It was an argument about the facts…the facts about climate change…or was it? I said, “What? You’re a climate change sceptic???? The argument did not end well, and I reflected on why we hadn’t been able to resolve our conflict better. Our beliefs
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I love the work of Amy Edmonson. Her seminal research on psychological safety provided the framework for Google’s Project Aristotle, a now infamous case study on what makes teams effective. Google made psychological safety cool but Amy’s work had begun decades before. This article, published in HBR about a month ago links psychological safety to
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I wanna do it my way Results from the latest workplace survey by PWC suggest that the majority of workers do not want to return to the office full-time. Ninety percent of Australians want to keep working from home, in some capacity. Are we really surprised that we don’t want to go back to the
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Welcome to the Gears, Action, Growth podcast with Christy Mori and Dr Josephine Palermo. We recently had a great discussion about how to build your best team. We spoke about what business owners, team leaders, and employees can do to ensure they have a great team environment, one where team members can flourish and have a
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We have successfully endured 2020. We utilised all our coping strategies and positivity to get through the stress, anxiety and uncertainty that the pandemic generated for so many of us. Now we have great expectations for 2021 in the context of a continuing pandemic and the lagging impacts to come. We are tired, fatigued and weary. What do we do to invigorate ourselves and our teams?
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The Australian Financial Review this week had a fascinating article about flexible work and the preferences of men and fathers. We often think that flexible work is the purview of women who are mothers. However AFRs survey of 25 of Sydney’s biggest employers this week showed that 24 out of 25 said remote working was
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Recently, we have been asking how do we make work more flexible. Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated shifts to working from home and remote work settings. So, we are starting to rethink where work can be done. We’re also questioning, what is the office for, and can we do it differently? When we can work from
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Are you working on your company culture? If you’re not you are missing opportunities to attract the right employees and customers. Building the right culture for your business increases employee engagement and attracts customers. But what does the ‘right’ culture mean? And I promise it’s not one size fits all! Culture is a set of
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