Keeping Your Cool this Christmas!
There is lots of potential for conflict over the Christmas period: the pressures of getting it right on the day, stressed relatives, heightened emotions and managing a diary full of work, business and family events.
Could Conflict Coaching Help You Improve Your Relationships?
In our increasingly diverse world, with different views, personalities, communication styles and expectations, conflicts are more likely. Conflict coaching is a confidential way to increase your self-awareness, gain insight into the experience of others and develop your skills in resolving arguments.
How much Rudeness is Tolerated in Your Workplace?
Are unnecessary rudeness and uncivil behaviours tolerated in your workplace? Incivility can be defined as mistreatment and behaviours with an ambiguous intent to harm the target that is characteristically rude, discourteous and which violates norms for mutual respect.
Confident Conflict Conversations: ‘It Never Gets Easier, You Just Get Better’
How do you engage in conversations in your professional or personal life that make you uncomfortable and vulnerable? When you’re hesitant to talk about conflict, it can be tempting to avoid the issue altogether, but that can have disastrous results. There’s a sign that catches my eye every time I leave my gym that reads: ‘It Never Gets Easier, You Just get Better’. The same could be said of leading difficult conflict conversations, such as giving sensitive feedback to an employee, raising a performance concern, or even a sensitive personal matter between friends.
Bad Boss Blues: Australian Workplace Harassment Statistics Tell a Sad Story
You might even recall the Appoc scandal from 2016. There’s been a decade of concerted effort to raise awareness about workplace bullying and yet a 2016 Report from Safe Work Australia of over 4,000 workers found the incidence of workplace bullying in Australia...
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Every organisational values statement I have ever read includes the words respect, integrity and trust. But if you were to ask staff in many organisations, you might find that those words aren’t in their experience of workplace culture. Good workplace culture requires...
Essential Secrets to More Confidence!
Psst: Contrary to popular belief, confidence is not an emotion. I used to think that confidence was feeling cool and sort of, well, unemotional. But confidence is not so much how you feel but how you think about a problem or challenge. Confidence is the skill of...