How to become a vision driven leader
The book The Vision Driven Leader by Michael Hyatt focuses on unravelling the role of vision in leadership and outlines the steps you need to become and succeed as a vision driven leader. Vision plays a key role in either channeling energy towards something great or its lack leading companies to irrelevance. Vision drives everything and […]
How to develop leadership mindshare
One of the key organisational capacities that makes a difference is how we embed leadership “mindshare” in the organisation. This relates to also how we embed visionary thinking and enable broader mindsets across the whole organisation, including how we invest in individuals. According to Johnson and Suskewicz in Lead from the Future, “Visionary organisations create […]
What you need for imagining your future right now
Let’s dig some more into how you can recognise a purpose and some pretty cool actual  strategies in how to keep moving forward, even if during this time that might seem discouraging or not possible. Our lives have been disrupted, some have lost their jobs, others are struggling to cope with workload while caring for […]
How to embrace a new way of being
This week I have been looked at some of the insights from neuroscience (science of the brain) in order to better understand the complexities and mechanisms involved how we think, feel and act. Dr Joe Dispenza’s book “Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One” discusses our […]
How to build and use tribes to change culture
Developing and creating tribes within organisations can change overall culture resulting in increases in well-being, innovation and high performance. In this post I keep unpacking these insights from Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organisation because I do believe that understanding the different phases and especially how to move people to those […]
How to find your vision in a messy world
This week I have been challenged with many processes, with an abundance of opportunities to reflect on things like how we can find our vision, how we learn to lead, and how we make decisions under uncertainty. One of the biggest learnings has been that of observing a process, going back to my core values […]
How to become an innovation leader
Innovation leaders are people who have a broad set of skills ranging from ideas to strategic implementation, perform generally much better, with higher company revenues, and with higher customer satisfaction and staff inspiration. These leaders are inspirational, able to attract the best talent but also unafraid to ask the complex challenging questions that can transform […]
How to attract the hidden funding opportunities
I spent a day this week at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s conference (CASE ASAP conference) in Brisbane where I attended the role of academic leadership and its linkage to philanthropic funding. CASE focuses on “advancement professionals” who are often the unnoticed group of professionals in organisations who are tasked in leveraging […]
How to leverage effectively career and adaptation
Many of us are starting to plan for the 2019. I have made numerous lists, mindmaps, and collections of ideas as to what I am obligated to deliver, what I’d like to deliver, and what I can deliver. At some point, looking at my lists, I was starting to despair. I started questioning as to […]