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How effective are you at receiving feedback?
Do you invite feedback from others as a way of modelling the skills of receiving feedback? This is a hugely impactful way of building psychologically safe relationships. Read the full article to learn more about the 11 principles of receiving feedback well.
Is your feedback psychologically safe?
Feedback conversations are powerful. They can be a wonderful or terrible experience for all parties involved. So how can we ensure we provide feedback to our colleagues and teams in a psychologically safe manner?
Practising compassion in your teams
As a leader, being able to step into the shoes of others, both individuals and well as our teams and to see things from their experience and emotional perspective is a game changer. One of the best things we can do as leaders is to intentionally cultivate compassion within our team. Here I provide some practice exercises to help you get started.
March Monthly Wrap: Getting Out of Our Comfort Zones
Welcome to the first instalment of my new blog series, where I reflect on the previous month and share some of the themes that are common in many workplaces, lessons learned, and what’s coming up.
From Toxic to Transformative: Let’s Talk About Supervision
To support savvy leaders and organisations to invest meaningfully in their employees’ professional development, I’ve developed a simple framework that shows how supervision can move from toxic to transformative supervision - and the incredible impact this has.
International Women's Day 2023: Thriving With Self-Leadership
I want to take a moment to consider the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day. It’s such an important topic, and seeing it being acknowledged is great for us all.
Leading ourselves into 2023
During the course of 2022, the focus of self-leadership has changed.
Rather than using it to adapt to the uncertain world we were dealing with, we began tentatively using self-leadership to move beyond the day to day and shape the life, career and future we long for.
Building workplace culture takes time
It takes considerable time, thought and investment to build a healthy, above-the-line and psychologically safe workplace culture.
Uplifting weeks and troublesome hits!
Last week was a fabulous week!
I had the pleasure of working with many wonderful people who were engaged and so positive about my work and I can't tell you how energising it was, not just to me but also to my team who I shared my experience with...
What is true self-care? and some tips!
*Disclaimer* I'm not talking about having a blissful spa day, massage, baths and candles.
Whilst those things can be very nice, deeply replenishing and meaningful self-care is something quite different.
Dealing with Burnout
Self care should always be a priority.
It needs to be a proactive focus at a team and individual level, not just when an individual is getting burnt out. Self-care should also not just be a priority because of covid.
Maintaining a High-Performing Team
Cultivating a high-performance team through above-the-line leadership is the goal of a dedicated leader.
Once you have achieved this, how do you maintain the performance, especially as your team grows?
7 tips for thriving at work
The workplace can often feel like a hectic and exhausting place to be, and with the line between work and home being constantly blurred, considering steps to remain resilient through your working day is critical.
There are some key tips that I carry around
How to positively impact mental health and wellbeing
The question is, what can we each to do positively impact mental health and wellbeing at a local level?
Of course, a great place to start, is to focus on ourselves.
Are you investing in yourself?
As we start heading in to the last stretch of the year, I’m aware many of us are feeling tired and lagging the energy to feel inspired and motivated to our usual level.
Do you back yourself?
The idea of backing yourself is one that many of us struggle with - there is often a perception that confidence in oneself and your actions is arrogance but this is rarely the truth.
R U OK? Am I OK?
So someone asks you R U OK, then what? How do we know if we’re OK?
What does OK actually even mean?
The Key Ingredients of a Thriving Team Ecosystem
While it doesn’t happen instantaneously, we can all create great teams if we understand the key ingredients of a thriving team ecosystem. There are many more factors at play here, however, these three ingredients will pave the way.
Are you feeling winter fatigue?
These months can drag on as we wait for the sun to come out and revive us with vitamin D. However, just waiting for spring as a motivator will not keep us happy and healthy - and in fact, this approach, is poor self-leadership.
Three self leadership steps that help us avoid burnout
Regardless of what our professional role is, we all benefit from paying attention to our self-leadership skills.
Self-leadership is simply the way we lead ourselves. It is how we apply leadership skills to relating to, guiding and directing our own thoughts and actions, and it is something that you don’t want to ignore.
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