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Category Archives: Leadership
The email beast – be gone!
Taming the seemingly unending avalanche of email we get each day can be a challenge. But is it possible to make your email work for you, the way you want it to? ‘Yeah, nah’, I thought – but I’d give it a go, implement some of the ideas I’ve read and listened to and see
The importance of ‘please’
Why it is that I find myself, as a new-ish Dad, quoting my father?… What my father has in spades is manners. As a young teacher he was quickly promoted and ended up leading people at schools he’d previously taught at, having returned, promoted. That would have been a challenge. Colleague one day, then a
What school drop-off taught me about servant leadership
I have learned, I hope, much from watching those whose leadership is a lived reality. Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned on leadership were through working with principals and business managers when I headed the Association of Independent Schools of the ACT in Canberra some years back. I’ve previously blogged on the importance of
Leadership: Up to your shoe laces
Recently I came across this piece from @michelhogan on Smart Company about the importance of shoe laces. Really. You should read it, as I reckon it’s a great read. It reminded me of an experience I had a few years back as a lobbyist, when I was nervously awaiting my turn to speak to a school
What ER’s Dr Mark Greene and Eddie McGuire have in common
There’s a strong parallel between the opening episode of ER and Collingwood President Eddie McGuire’s handling of the racial slur directed at Sydney Swans player Adam Goodes. In the episode, a newly-minted senior ER doctor Mark Greene in the midst of a (fictional) crisis in his unit is counselled by a senior colleague thus: You set the tone…You set
Ten things I’ve learned in a week of ‘working from home’
With recent changes to my career, two weeks ago I began the adventure of building my own public affairs consultancy and also developing rapidly The Armchair Selector. Since then, I’ve learned and reflected on a number of principles for working from home and how to maximise my productivity. Love to hear your experiences and thoughts
Building The Armchair
It started months ago with mucking around on the digital camera, talking about cricket. From there, an upload to YouTube and hello, what’s this – hello iMovie! Sometimes ideas evolve, and as I sit back now a few weeks after the launch over Easter of our sports-based fan-written website The Armchair Selector, it’s timely I stop
Reviewed – High Wire Act: Ted Rogers, by Caroline Van Hasselt
Where to start in reviewing this 520-page tome? WHAT a book. This book is not just a biography on Canadian media / technology owner and magnate, Ted Rogers, although that’s what I bought it for. It is much, much more than a biography, providing detailed insights into the personality and drive of Rogers, whose name
“You’ll be fine, you’ve got clean shoes.”
Funny thing, nerves. Sometimes they appear when you least need them – like when you’re about to get up and speak! Three years ago I stood at entrance to a school hall full of high school-aged boys and their parents and teachers at a school in Canberra, as guest speaker for their commencement assembly for