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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.
The Power of Self-leadership
Are you an active player in your own story?
“Am I outsourcing my self-leadership?” If so, Instead of doubting yourself, deliberately back yourself and be self-compassionate.
By closely working on self-leadership skills, individuals can more effectively lead others, whether they are colleagues, family or friends.
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.
Consider your ideal leader
Many of us think about good leaders we have had or would like to have and then try and find them.
However, how many of us look for this leader within?
Wishing you a fabulous 2022
It is possible to reflect on the year in terms of our contributions and, also in terms of the strengths and skills that you’ve used and developed, so that we can take these skills forward more intentionally.
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.
How to build well-being in your team
Research highlights that there are many negative factors that create risks to the health and wellbeing of an organisation or team. These include a poor interpersonal environment, poor leadership practices and poor organisational practices.
The ongoing Corona-Coaster
How about you? Where can you focus on what you can control rather than what you can’t?
Self-leadership & Values
Self-leadership is an emerging concept that encourages us to apply leadership principles, values, and practices to how we relate to and guide ourselves.
Reflecting on the Corona-Coaster
We have all been riding the corona coaster for a while now and can't really see a clear end as we go in and out of lockdowns but after over a year of this experience I think we can look back and review how we initially responded, adapted and how we are leading ourselves and our teams now.
How important is the manager - employee relationship?
The relationships we have with our leaders and managers is pivotal to how we experience our roles at work.