Three ways to keep your team motivated, even when times are tough
Three tips to make sure your staff stay motivated and focused on achieving shared results, despite the challenges that may come with running a startup.
You’ve stuffed up, now what? Why the power of a genuine apology can move mountains
We have all stuffed up and will do so again in many different ways. After all, we are not robots and mistakes are part of life and the human condition.
How to write the perfect job advertisement
Writing a strong job ad is an effective way to reel in the strongest prospective candidates. Here are six things to consider.
Public speaking is facing extinction: Here’s why you should care
While our forms of communication are changing, public speaking remains as important as ever. Yet it is under threat of becoming a lost art.
Five business lessons from elite sport
I would like to share five lessons from elite sports that translate readily into the business environment and make an impact.
Success doesn’t have to be at the expense of happiness and wellbeing: Here’s why
"From the outside, I was winning. But on the inside, I felt a deep sense of disconnect. I had let life become a monotone existence."
Why you need courage to build confidence — and how to get it
Many of us want to be more confident — and while there are many things that can stop us, and at the heart of most of those things, is fear.
Australia needs to follow the UK and introduce a flexible work bill
“Too many women are reluctantly dropping out of work or going part-time after having children because their employers won’t allow them flexibility.”
Slippy, sloppy: The real reason businesses regularly fail to uphold agreements
When you look at broken promises and the resulting collateral damage, a lack of clarity about what was agreed always jumps out.
Where did all the punk music go? Finding workplace freedom in an age of restraint
Given feeling misunderstood at work is often correlated with mental health challenges, there's a lot of merit in preserving the 'punk rocker self'.
‘The psychological fuel of capitalism’: Why we are obsessed with performance and success
We live in a society obsessed with performance. For both young and old, competitions, awards and rankings are an inescapable feature of life.
Amber Brodecky left a dream executive role to take back control of her home life — and ended up founding her own business
Entrepreneur Amber Brodecky shares her own story of attempting to balance executive leadership, motherhood and a modern-day dream.