Geelong Cats Colours 29 September 2025

My Team Lost the Grand Final

Eight lessons we can learn from losing My team, the Geelong Cats, were defeated by the Brisbane Lions in the 2025 AFL Grand Final on Saturday. The scoreboard hurts. 18.14... Read more...

Two chairs with a spotlight on each 22 September 2025

The Job Interview – It’s Not About You

Part One: Attention Hiring Managers Great Candidates Are Scarce Not just good ones, the great ones. The kind who elevate teams, shift culture, and deliver results. If you’re lucky enough... Read more...

16 September 2025

Building Psychological Safety in Your Team

No Matter Your Starting Point In our last post, we explored the tandem drivers of psychological safety; a willingness to challenge and the ability to be vulnerable. We presented these... Read more...

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The Tandem Drivers of Psychological Safety

Psychological safety is often hailed as the cornerstone of high-performing teams. It’s the idea that people feel safe to speak up, admit mistakes, and challenge the status quo without fear... Read more...

1 September 2025

Applicants Aren’t Candidates

Why So Many Hiring Processes Fail Before They Begin Overheard in a corridor the other day. A hiring manager was speaking to their Talent Acquisition Partner:“None of the CVs you... Read more...

Four hands reaching for one piece of pie. 6 August 2025

The Pie Is Fixed

Rethinking the Business Partner Role Through a Distributive Lens In negotiation theory, “distributive bargaining” is the classic win-lose scenario: a fixed pie, and everyone’s trying to grab the biggest slice.... Read more...

Sand runs through an hourglass 28 July 2025

Time-Blind Culture

The Hidden Threat to Business Performance In most organisations, time is the most overdrawn account. We talk about budgets, headcount, and KPIs, but rarely about time as a finite, strategic... Read more...

18 July 2025

It’s Time to Get SMART on Crafting Goals

I was recently working with a group of senior leaders gearing up for a strategic reset. We’d just kicked off a session focused on setting impactful organisational goals. I asked:... Read more...

10 July 2025

The Paradox of Potential

Past Performance vs. The Peter Principle. Hiring or promoting an executive is one of the most consequential decisions a leader can make. But behind that decision are two dominant, and... Read more...

3 July 2025

Still Using Yesterday’s Competencies?

Here’s Why That’s Holding You Back In many organisations today competency and capability frameworks are quietly becoming a liability, not because they were poorly designed, but because the world has... Read more...

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