Category: Leadership In Action

Leadership training is one of the most common investments organisations make and one of the least interrogated. Courses are rolled out, workshops are delivered, and managers are given frameworks for feedback, delegation, and communication. On paper, capability is being addressed.  But when organisations step back and look at how leadership actually shows up day to day, the same patterns […]

Everyone says truth matters – yet leaders speaking it clearly and fully is rarer than ever. Why is that so, and how do we fix it?  Edelman’s 2026 Trust Barometer shows we are plumbing new depths of a trust crisis. Whilst the last 12 months saw some paltry gains in some trust measures, across the […]

It's time to start future proofing against destructive leadership given the impact it has on finances, brand and employee wellbeing.

We need to move away from checking up and move towards checking in on our team members. Here are three tips for how to do this with a team working remotely.

Australia has been multi-faith for more than 50,000 years, given the diversity of beliefs and practices among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Anglicans, Catholics, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Jews and Muslims have been arriving in Australia since colonisation in 1788. The most recent census data shows increasing religious diversity in Australia. Christianity is the most […]

The devastating bushfires that swept through the Blue Mountains towns of Springwood, Winmalee and Yellow Rock in October 2013 prompted the NSW government to declare a state of emergency. The fires burned for more than 10 days, destroyed 203 homes and severely damaged 286 more. The threat of bushfire is a regular feature of life […]

The Myer Christmas windows have been delighting generations of children since 1956. For more than 20 years, Myer has partnered with creative director John Kerr and his production company Stage One to create the magical scenes. In 2015, the windows’ theme was based on Little Dog and the Christmas Wish, a book by author Corinne Fenton and illustrator Robin Cowcher that […]

The premise: Common sense would seemingly advise on the side of caution, but could letting your hair down and having a drink at the company Christmas bash have a positive side? Three experts give their view. You have a lot of inferred power and influence as a leader if you’re getting it right. You don’t want […]

The world in which most of us lead and manage is increasingly less robust and more unstable. Technology is changing faster than ever, bringing both threats and massive opportunities. Political and social forces are causing major changes, with migration, population pressures, multiculturalism, racial tension and the rising global gap between haves and have-nots impacting labour […]