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Career Planning Sustainability

How To Use End-of-Career Planning For Personal & Professional Growth

We often focus on the next big promotion, the upcoming project, or the skills we need to acquire. However, there’s an often-overlooked aspect of career planning that can have profound effects on both personal and professional growth: end-of-career planning. This process, which includes considerations like retirement planning, legacy building, and yes, even will writing, can […]

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Organisational Culture Values and Behaviours Workplace

The Power of Values: Creating a Vibrant Company Culture

In today’s competitive business landscape, having a strong company culture is essential for success. One of the key drivers of a thriving culture is a set of well-defined and meaningful values. Values serve as guiding principles that shape the behaviour and decisions of employees, creating a cohesive and engaging work environment. In this comprehensive guide, […]

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Emotional Intelligence Leadership Mindfulness reflection Values and Behaviours

The importance of values

I have been working a lot with clients on values recently and it led me to doing a new values elicitation exercise for myself. I last defined my values in 2004, as part of coaching I was getting to help me through a particularly challenging and draining work situation. I was interested to see if […]

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Employee Engagement Leadership Motivation Organisational Culture Teamwork Values and Behaviours

Employee watching – guess the culture!

On a recent trip for a conference, I had lunch with one of my clients at a restaurant in the casino complex. We were discussing organisational culture as we entered the restaurant, so as a learning experience and a bit of fun I asked my client to “guess the culture”. Her observations were: When we […]

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Employee Engagement Leadership Motivation Organisational Culture Teamwork Values and Behaviours

The drivers of discretionary effort – a case study

Earlier this week I facilitated a session with a client to capture learnings from a significant crisis. To cut a long story short, we have had some devastating bush fires here in Tasmania and my client lost substantial assets in the fire. As a provider of an essential public service there was considerable pressure to […]

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Leadership Organisational Culture Teamwork Values and Behaviours

A new start in 2013 – the importance of purpose and values

Towards the end of 2012 I was working with organisations and teams to create shared purpose and values because they wanted to make a fresh start in 2013. Purpose and values are vital in creating employee engagement (to the team and the organisation) because they take what people do day to day and connect that […]