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5 Communication Hacks Every Leader Should Know

Discover 5 communication hacks for leaders to help your message land, improve team engagement & lead with clarity. Practical tips that work.
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Why You Need an Inspirational Leadership Speaker to Reignite Your Team

It was a Thursday morning when I walked into a client’s office…
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Why You Need an Inspirational Leadership Speaker to Reignite Your Team

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Why Team Alignment Workshops Are the Shortcut to Strategic Clarity

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Personal Leadership Hacks to Maximise Your Daily Impact

In a world where the to‑do list never shrinks and inboxes flood…
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How to Build a Champion Team That Drives Lasting Results

Nobody expects a team to sprint 50 laps without training, support,…
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Are you an Effective Leader? Or Just Busy?

Last week I was sitting with a senior leader from a fast-growing…
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Go the Matilda’s – Til Its Done!

Last night my family attended the FIFA Women’s World Cup Opening…
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Why You Should Lead Like Indiana Jones

I have a confession to make, I love movies. I think it is something…
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The Future of Leadership: Inspiration or Implementation?

As we near the end of the Australian financial year I have…
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Are Your Leaders Building the Future of Leadership?

Too many things to do and not enough time.  This is a common…
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How do you become a great story teller?

My daughter Isabella is currently attending University in…
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Why Is Being a Good Time Maker Important?

Recently a client came to me feeling overwhelmed and spread…
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Do You Give them a Reason to Come to Work?

Recently I was working with a group of managers that were commenting…
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What’s Holding You Back?

I had an interesting client coaching session.  In discussion…
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Are you too busy or could you get more done?

I have a question for you.  What would you do with an extra…
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Do You Need to Hack your Leadership?

I have a question for you.  Are you getting everything done…
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How do your people graduate?

Last night my eldest daughter, Jasmine, graduated with her bachelors…
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How Did You Learn to Drive?

My youngest, Luca, has completed his 120 hours of learning driving…
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What Are You Selling?

I was recently walking to the shops and 2 children had set…
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What is your next step?

“I know that I need to do something, I’m just not sure what…
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Are You a Trusted Advisor?

I was recently working with a group of Account Managers and discussing…
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Do you have a Champion Team?

I have been attending the Aussies, Australian National Surf Lifesaving…
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Is Your Workplace Hybrid Flexible?

Well, the pandemic is truly in our rear view mirror and people…
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Are you leading so your people will stay?

I had an interesting conversation with a younger employee recently. …
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Do Your People Know How to Sell?

I was recently talking with a client in the professional services…
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Is Uncertainty Slowing Your Leadership?

We see the news with war in Ukraine, interest rates rising and…
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What reason do your staff have to come to work?

I was recently working with a client looking at the performance…
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Could You Summit the 15 Highest Peaks?

Although the Snowy Mountains of Australia are not as high as…
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What will be your Rites of Passage in 2023?

My son (the youngest member in our family) started year 11 of…
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Are You Preparing for 2023?

We are about to head into a new year (gotta love the time between…
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Leadership Hacks to Improve Performance

It’s difficult to keep up with the speed at which information…
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How to Get Your Priorities Right

For centuries Native people around the world had to prioritise…
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Hacking the 5 Distractions to Productivity

Research shows up to 65% of future leaders feel busy all the…
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Are Team Meetings a Waste of Time?

One of the biggest workplace challenges is finding time to complete…
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Here are 5 things that put high achievers ahead of the rest of us

Microsoft 2022 Work Trend Report showed that 52% of generation…
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Struggling to Stay Focused at Work?

Do you ever find yourself drifting off during the work day? Losing…
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Productivity for Working Remotely

How do we keep staff productive whilst working remotely?   Research…
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Building Future Leaders

“We’re trying to get things back to normal, but it feels…
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Will You Make Pasta for Mothers Day?

I am very lucky to live in a wonderful place that is close to…
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The World Needs more Thinkers

A very close friend of mine, Bud Matkowski, passed away this…
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How Many In Office Days vs Remote Days?

As the Easter break finishes many people are starting to go back…
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Is your workplace fixed or flexible?

I was speaking with a leader who commented about how difficult…
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Are you leveraging remote work to help your customers?

As many of you know I am a very loyal Qantas frequent flyer.…
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Choosing to work in the office or remotely

I had a great conversation with a leader last week who was struggling…
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Navigating your way back to the office & hybrid?

With people back in the full swing at work, many leaders have…
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March Madness

I had an interesting session with a Senior Leader this past week. …
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International Women’s Day: From feminism to removing bias

With the rain was pelting down this morning across Sydney, we…
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How do you get new staff to perform faster?

My eldest daughter is in her 3rd year of University and just…
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It’s the Little things that Count

I recently was working with the staff at a car dealership when…
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Can you create Olympic moments?

The Winter Olympics have started and I’m always interested…
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Do you have a 2022 vision yet?

So we are into February and everyone has hit the ground running. …
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Are you spreading the Christmas Spirit?

As we approach the week of Christmas, the excitement starts to…
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Don’t buckle under the End of Year Pressure

We have finally reached the back half of December.  The last…
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Do you want a Christmas Deal?

I had a really interesting conversation with a colleague about…
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The Race to Christmas – Are You Ready?

The race towards Christmas has started.  Many people that I…
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Who Are You Thankful For?

In the US Thanksgiving is a massive holiday.  Yes it has the…
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Fatherly Wisdom Remembered

Given the very challenging year that we have had with the global…
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Have You Started the New Leadership Journey?

With the COVID19 pandemic, leaders have been stretched to the…
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Are You Leading So Your People Will Stay?

I had an interesting conversation with a younger employee recently. She…
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Will You Be Impacted By the Great Resignation?

Recent research reported by Smart Company and Microsoft has…
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Are you a brave leader?

So what kind of leader are you?  Innovative, visionary, traditional,…
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Are You Winning the End of Year Race?

I was working with a leader this week who mentioned they’d…
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Are you Leading or Following?

It looks like this time next week the Australian state of NSW…
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Are You Sharing Lockdown Love?

So Sydney is now approaching the 9th week of lockdown with no…
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Are 1/3 of Your Staff About to Leave?

It is an interesting question isn’t it. According to…
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Are you being decisive?

I have a question for you, are you a decisive leader? Do you…
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Are your people keeping up?

I was speaking to a number of CEO’s & mid-level managers…
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Are you ready to be inspired?

If you think back over the past 12 months it has been a…
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Are you ready for the Future of Leadership?

Too many things to do and not enough time. This is a common…
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What kind of person are you?

So what kind of person are you? As I look around I often see…
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Are You Focusing on the Activity or the Result?

In a meeting with a CEO last week, we were discussing some of…
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Are you a leader others would follow?

I have a question for you, do your staff follow you because they…
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The Leadership Race

As we head into May I have been hearing a common theme from most…
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Are you a champion?

My son Luca is heading to the Sunshine Coast, to compete in the…
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Are you an Old School Leader?

Internal politics often stop forward progress and isolate staff.…
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Do You Need a Break? 

Well, we made it to the Easter Long weekend and I noticed from…
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Are You Hands On?

“Can I help Dad?”  said Luca, my fourteen year old son. …
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Are You Letting Internal Disruption Take You Off Path?

Everything is going too fast, times are changing and things are…
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Could You Get More Done?

I have some questions for you, “what would you do with an extra…
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Are Your Virtual Meetings Working?

With the COVID pandemic everyone has shifted to virtual meetings…
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What Reason Do Your Staff Have to Come to Work?

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Why Aren’t You Delegating?

So how is the start to your year going?  If you are like many…
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Are You Creating Customer ‘WOWS’?

What are you doing that is absolutely incredible to customers? …
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It’s Only February & Workloads Are Crazy!

“It’s only February and I can’t believe how busy we are,…
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What is Your Plan for the Year?

So let me ask you a question  “What is your plan for the…
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What will you achieve in 2021?

So we are now into 2021 and it’s good-bye 2020!  The beginning…
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Spreading Cheer the Week Before Christmas

With only a week before Christmas, I always notice the excitement…
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Are You Ready for the Pre-Christmas Dash?

Yes, it’s that time of year once again.  Christmas lights…
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Who Are You Thankful For?

With a roller coaster year full of COVID pandemic, travel bans,…
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Remembering Fatherly Wisdom

A year has gone by since my father passed away.  I was fortunate…
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Are You Proficient?

Given we live only 400m from one of the biggest wave and rip…
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Would They Vote for You?

The world is currently holding its breath for the outcome of…
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The Power of Enthusiasm

This year has been challenging. Regardless if it was the COVID19…
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