– Tamara Stopford, Leadership & Engagement Consultant Change is something that we have all experienced to varying degrees. In our personal lives, change may look like moving schools, relocating, getting married, having children. In our...
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Prioritising People: Why AI Will Always Need a Human Heart.
- Rikki Gainey, Team & Culture Consultant I have always been a “people person”. My strong belief is that the people that we choose to surround ourselves with, in work or in life can have a significant impact on us and how we respond to...
The Power of 8 Minutes
- Naomi Wilson Those who know me know that I love a good code word. Code words can be powerful ways to communicate with families, between friends and even within a workplace culture. Code words can be a 'safe' way to express something that can...
The problem with postponing people problems
"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them” - Henry Ford How many times have you heard or thought ‘management would be easy…if it weren’t for the people!’. Through our work with our clients, people...
Does your team know your Vision?
~ Tamara Stopford - Focus HR Leadership & Engagement Consultant Over my years in the workforce, I have been so fortunate to work for large corporate businesses, world recognised chains, not-for-profit organisations, and local small businesses....
The Oxygen Mask Lesson
Put on your own oxygen mask first. It is a message that all the airlines give us in their safety videos; but one that we also need to listen to as leaders, particularly when we are going through challenging times. I firmly believe in this, but...
My #1 lesson
I want to share my #1 lesson from running a small business … People are the most valuable, inimitable asset. Until you’ve harnessed the power of your team, your business will not reach its full potential. You can copy machines, IT systems,...
Personal grit – and learning the hard way.
I’ve spent the last 20 years or so with no significant periods of being ‘alone’. Sure I’ve driven in the car by myself (and for the record, I sing terribly, at the top of my lungs), but I’ve not been genuinely by myself without someone I know and...
Don’t lose what we learned
I was delivering a session on Communication in Leadership recently and I'd asked the group a question about the link between communication and connectivity. One of the participants gave me a response that got my brain ticking. He said 'we did so...
Clumsy Feedback Gracefully Received
I was listening to a Brené Brown podcast recently and right at the end she spoke about how receiving feedback is never easy, particularly given that not everyone is trained in how to deliver feedback. And I thought it was such a powerful message. I...
Our Vision, Our Space
Our vision is to achieve mastery in our space by having a position on all things people, leadership, strategy. It is a vision for a reason - a vision is a goal or an aspiration, it is not your current state. We are not so egotistical as to think...
Would you enthusiastically rehire everyone on your team?
What a powerful question right?!? No matter which employer we've asked this question of, it never fails to get a similar reaction. There is the intake of breath to give a quick answer ... then a pause and look of puzzlement ... you can almost hear...
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