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Psychological Safety + Boards – podcast with Lisa Cook from Get on Boards Australia
Psychological Safety + Boards A couple of weeks ago, I recorded a podcast with Lisa Cook, founder of Get on Boards Australia about psychological safety. We first started our discussions about two years ago just prior to me commencing the People + Science Boardroom...
Solving the Leadership Crisis with Neuroscience
It is said that globally we have been (and continue to) experience a "crisis of leadership". A crisis that has been prevalent for more than two decades. The leadership gap between what is being delivered by leaders and what is needed by employees, customers and...
Ideation and power of persistence
There is a common and often mistaken belief that we generate our best ideas early - this is actually squashing our creativity. Now, it's time to shine the light on the value of persistence. Creativity research across the social sciences seeks to identify factors that...
Psychological Safety – Australia’s first Code of Practice introduced
The New South Wales Government has introduced Australia's first Code of Practice (Code) for managing psychosocial hazards in the workplace.The Code provides employers with practical guidance about how to protect workers from psychosocial hazards in the workplace and...
The illusion of communication
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” – George Bernard Shaw. Remember the teams of communications specialists that used to be in organisations? They would manage anything from internal communications, stakeholder...
Unfreeze decision paralysis – The Circle of Certainty
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in massive disruption in a short period of time to not only the business world but the daily lives of millions of people. The reality of this new normal is what Professor Rita McGrath would define as an inflection point -- an...
How you behave today, will matter to your customers
In an article written by Amanda David in Customer Think, she outlines the outcomes of altering and aligning strategy to the new threats and opportunities that COVID has presented. It is an article well worth a read, and I have attached the link to this article. ...
I was listening to a podcast with Timothy R Clark on the “Four Stages of Psychological Safety”, and I highly recommend it and his book. Psychological safety is being able to show and employ one's self without fear of negative consequences of self-image, status or...
Attentional Intelligence – A limited resource
"Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our skills and organisations are lagging behind". ‘Attention is a resource’ and perhaps more critical today to understand as 70% of the workforce becomes a remote or mobile workforce working from home. Attentional...
Good deeds, good news.
Emotions are contagious There was a great discussion started last week by my good friend on Linked In, @rupertbryce – “Is fear more contagious than a virus?” It created a great discussion about the fact that emotions are contagious and that we need to change the...