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Did you fall into recruitment?
If we don’t see ourselves as Professional Services Consultants, then why should our clients? I finished my tertiary study as an Economics Graduate with many options for a career, yet can’t imagine any other role could have given me the sense of purpose and...
Will COVID-19 send vulnerable leadership viral?
Ever since the Coronavirus turned everyone’s life upside down earlier this year, we have all had opportunity to reflect and consider the various scenarios that may become reality in our every day lives and professional environments. Personally, I have been impressed...
Daily performance reviews and clearing the clutter: 15 tips for those working from home
Having left a secure executive position with IBM for the insecurity of starting my own business, I sometimes struggled in a home office before expanding into ‘real’ commercial office space to accommodate staff. Now, like many others, I find myself back working from...
Peering into the Murky Crystal Ball – Part 3
In the final part of this special three-part series, Part 3 – The Imponderables, Executive Coach and freelance blogger for The Slade Report, David Simpson, offers some observations on the factors at play in determining the new normal. Catch up or recap here on Part 1...
Peering into the Murky Crystal Ball – Part 2
In Part 2 – The Inconclusives, the second in this special three-part series, Executive Coach and freelance blogger for The Slade Report, David Simpson, offers some observations on the factors at play in determining the new normal. In case you missed it, click here...
Peering into the Murky Crystal Ball – Part 1
In Part 1 – The Inevitables, the first in this special three-part series, Executive Coach and freelance blogger for The Slade Report, David Simpson, offers some observations on the factors at play in determining the new normal. David has been a past CEO of global...
7 down to earth Wellness Building Blocks during isolation
Wait, wait, don’t scroll down, this is not just another COVID-19 blog. This is 7 down to earth Wellness Building Blocks during isolation. Seriously though, I had the pleasure of hearing Taylor Johnson from Roots Reboot speak yesterday about the 7 Building Blocks to...
How facing off against the unknown led me to certainty
Standing at a sheer 1986 metres tall and casting a shadow over the Alpine National Park, Mt Bogong (the local Aboriginal name for the mountain roughly translates to The Big Fella) holds the rugged crown of the highest mountain in Victoria, Australia. Mt Bogong...
Diggers. Shining a light on our current hardship.
My grandfather was a Digger – a Navigator for the RAAF in WW2 in New Guinea and the Coral Sea. He saw the best and worst in men, fighting on both sides. He rarely spoke of it, but when I was nine years old, he took our whole family on a trip, by boat, to deepen our...
This will be a thing. Face masks in the workplace.
I had never understood face mask wearing in public. To me, face masks indicated a cultural misunderstanding, a weird convention I couldn’t grasp. Were the wearers suggesting our pollution levels were up there with Shanghai’s, were we particularly foul mouthed, or...
Prescience!
Don’t it always seem to goThat you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s goneThey paved paradiseAnd put up a parking lot. Thanks Joni Mitchell I’m grateful this week. Enormously grateful to our Federal Government for the recently legislated JobKeeper initiative....
From little things… Easter, a time for renewal
It was while waiting to cross at the lights on Spring Street last week, standing (suitably) apart from a couple on my walk home, when I overheard one say, “Things will really get bad when Bunnings closes.” I wanted to step closer and...