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Three ways to stay connected to your customers in a virtual world

Holding a steady-state and maintaining business-as-usual (BAU) activities has been the focus for many organisations. Or put another way, ‘survival’. However, a lot has changed over the past 18 months, and what was important to your customers previously, may now not be. If you’re not paying close attention, your BAU…

Zoe Aitken • 9 November 2021

Three things leaders can do to inspire growth

The spotlight has never shone more brightly on leaders than right now. The phrase ‘sink or swim’ comes to mind when we think about how leaders have had to navigate through the COVID storm. They have had to blindly steer their organisations, without any precedent on what success looks like.

Zoe Aitken • 9 November 2021

Three strategies to improve your decision-making process

How much of your time at work is spent making decisions? Is it 10%, or perhaps closer to 50%? When you reflect on the various hats you wear, projects you are across and tasks you are responsible for, the sheer amount of time spent solely on decision making…

Charlotte Rush • 9 September 2021

Why mindfulness will help you smash your work goals

How often do you find yourself mindlessly working on something? Perhaps you are sitting in a meeting and you catch yourself mentally noting down your groceries to pick up tonight. Maybe you are working on a report,…

Charlotte Rush • 23 August 2021

Science-backed strategies to unleash change in your people

Ex-Chairman of General Electric, Jack Welch said: “I’m convinced that if the rate of change inside the institution is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight.” There has been a lot of change thrust upon organisations over the last 12 months. But, as Welch highlights,…

Charlotte Rush • 23 August 2021

The 3 best business books I’ve read in 2021

If you’re anything like me (a humble Melbourn-ian), these on-again off again lockdowns have had a small silver lining… more time for books. I’ve always loved to read, but somewhere between an eight-year sentence at university and working full time, having space and mental clarity to get stuck into a…

Sasha D'Arcy • 23 August 2021

How I went from exhausted to energised… notes from a recovering people pleaser.

We live in a reactive world. Despite having a background in organisational psychology and knowing all that I know about productive work and how to help our brains focus,  I’m a repeat offender of responding to everyone else first and leaving whatever time is leftover to devote to my own…

Sasha D'Arcy • 23 August 2021

If only I had more time….

How to have less meetings and get more time back for the things that matter. If you could reduce the amount of meetings you’re having by 25-50% each week, what would you do with that additional time? For most people this sounds like one of those desert mirages. Beautiful and…

Sasha D'Arcy • 23 August 2021

The ultimate home office set up

Through the dozens of virtual keynotes I’ve been doing since the pandemic hit, along with the work I do for the How I Work podcast, I get a lot of questions about my set up. “Why is your image so clear?” “Where do you record your podcast interviews from?” “Do you…

Dr. Amantha Imber • 23 August 2021