In order to grow and develop in their roles and increase their value to the organisation, people need to receive feedback. However, all too often, leaders struggle to do this well and avoid feedback conversations, missing opportunities to provide valuable input to team members or colleagues. In this article, Technology Leadership Coach, Caroline New, explores an alternative way to look at feedback conversations, highlighting the opportunity they afford for growth and development.

Do you dread giving or receiving feedback?

Owning your own business and having a team do not automatically make you a good manager. In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic shows that understanding the separate behaviours and objectives of a general manager and a CEO/founder will enable you to consciously wear the hat that fits each role and embody the corresponding behaviours to pursue the best outcomes for your business.

Why many business owners are ineffective managers - and what to do about it

Creating a productive and effective team that thrives is a goal that is high on most business owners’ priority lists. But more often than not, it isn’t something they can tick off as accomplished. Why? Because most business owners don’t know how to create their dream team. What’s the magic formula? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic explores the key ingredients of a thriving team and reveals how to create the most productive and effective team possible for your busine...

How to create and build your dream team

Performance reviews are a common method to measure success, but the needs of the individual are often not considered, leading to mistrust, fear and lower performance. In this article, ontological leadership coach Lucy Faulconer explores ways to broaden your focus, look at and encourage each individual’s unique contributions and open avenues of communication.

Building a high-performance team beyond performance reviews

Derailment of a project can lead to unexpected costs and losses, even more so when it appears to come out of nowhere. In this article, leadership facilitator and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Dr. Ehssan Sakhaee, looks at how project managers can encourage healthy relationships within their team, facilitate honest communication without fear and address any issues before they become major problems.

Inauthenticity and project failure

Resentment can be loud and targeted or sly and stealthy. If left unchecked, it will destroy healthy relationships, be it in a marriage, team, community, corporation or government. In this article, Ontological Coach, Thrive Master Coach and facilitator Louise Smallwood explains how to uncover where resentment may be taking hold and the steps you can take to address it.

Building healthier teams and organisations without resentment

Many businesses reach a point where higher levels of support need to be brought in to help manage their small team and take the business to the next level. But what do you do if the manager or management team you have hired fails to achieve your objectives for hiring them? In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic suggests how to set your new manager or management team up for success by establishing a framework to support and guide their actions.

Are you empowering your management team?

Wellbeing in the workplace, or lack thereof, can cause enormous economic loss if not addressed and dealt with effectively. Building wellbeing in the workplace requires leaders to be people-centred, communicate effectively, demonstrate strength of character and promote social support and diversity. But how do they achieve this? In this article, human performance strategist Dr Craig Duncan explores the impact that being self-aware and managing ego and impulsive behaviour can have on improving the ...

The impact of leadership on employee wellbeing in the workplace

Have you ever hired a new staff member based on their brilliant CV and interview presentation skills only to discover that they were not who they appeared to be at face value? Do you have a team member who seems to tick all the boxes, but you just get a sense that something isn’t right? Perhaps they say and do the right things, but there are gaps in their output, and team morale has suffered since they came on board. In this article, business consultant Anthea Stevanovic explains why a wrong h...

Beware of this person in your business! Do you have this person in your team?

When most people think of the word ‘noise’, they immediately think of the external sounds that disrupt them when attempting to sleep, relax or focus. However, the type of noise most disruptive to our capacity to perform at our peak is internally-driven. 
In this article, human performance strategist Dr Craig Duncan explains why reducing noise is the most effective capacity-building and performance-enhancing exercise you can invest your efforts into and how to do it.

Why reducing ‘noise’ leads to greater performance

Workplace distractions form one of the top complaints of employees. They say distractions stifle their progress toward task completion, leaving them dissatisfied with their level of productivity. In this article, Jacqueline Hofste, an ontological leadership coach with a background in science, explains how we can manage distractions to become more productive in achieving our goals at work and in life.

What are distractions costing you?

Have you ever employed someone who came with good references, sometimes from people you thought you could trust, only to discover that their behaviour in your workplace contradicted what you were told about them? In this article, leadership coach, CEO, and psychologist Greg Aldridge looks at the benefit of being committed to personal growth and how this can be used as a pathway to support staff members to grow through their ‘worst behaviours’ and build healthy, positive relationships.