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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...
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
Do you love a good question?
I love good questions. They make us think, grow and learn.
Good questions invite us to go deeper, to reflect and analyse, to consider new perspectives and insights.
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.
Why send your supervisees to training?
It’s the Supervisors role to run the sessions isn’t it?
Actually, research shows that to get the most from supervision you need mutually engaged and driven participants.
What drives positive supervision?
Positive supervision is focussed on learning and skill development.
Positive learning supports skill development and problem- solving, the supervisor will provide relevant information and resources to help the supervisee grow in their practice.
The Three Key Ingredients to a Thriving Team Ecosystem
While it doesn’t happen instantaneously, we can create great teams if we understand the key ingredients of a thriving team ecosystem.
5 key things that make a positively impactful leader
Even if an organisation holds groundbreaking innovations that can unlock tremendous value in the world, poor leadership can scuttle the entire endeavour.
Considering this, we must commit to, and invest in positively impactful leadership. By deeply understanding the ingredients of positive leadership, we can better inspire our teams, accomplish our goals, and feel a deep satisfaction in our work.
What drives benign supervision?
As we reflect on the different levels of supervision, what is happening in your workplace?
What do you think the experiences are for supervisees in your workplace?
What drives toxic supervision?
As we reflect on the different levels of supervision, what is happening in your workplace?
What do you think the experiences are for supervisees in your workplace?
Why our relationships with leaders and managers are critical
Whether you work for a for-profit company or a non-profit organisation, great leadership is going to separate the truly successful from those treading water.
How workplaces can support best practice supervision?
Professional and Clinical Supervision is a co-created, collaborative learning focussed conversation between a supervisor and supervisee. It is a process of learning and support, designed to build self-directed learners and workforce capacity through practice skill development and reflective learning.
Workplaces reveal our inner Jekyll and Hyde
Work pressures, interpersonal demands, and workplace culture strains can play a direct role in the future of your organisation. Because of this, it is the role of leaders to reflect on the real status of our organisations’ ecosystems.
Learning is the elixir of youth!
Individually, learning is a great way of keeping us agile, humble and open.
For a workplace, ongoing learning is critical for achieving optimal service delivery and workplace goals.
Feeling reactive throughout your days?
When we take a step back from our day to day work life (whether as a conscious choice or enforced) it can encourage us to reflect more deeply our values and our goals.
Being Mindfully Supportive
Mental health through Covid-19 has certainly come to the forefront of conversations. How could we be using this insight into each other's lives beyond the office in a positive way?
Humans first : Employees second
How do you ensure that you go beyond role to role and relate to your colleagues as human to human?
Psychological safety & performance
How do you contribute to the team culture and build a healthy ecosystem?
Leadership for a positive environment
Research shows that when senior leaders set and model high level interpersonal functioning, where values like respect, trust, kindness and compassion dominate, the tone is set for the whole organisation.