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Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?

Soft skills are going to be the most critical to develop over the coming decade.

Research shows that by 2030 2/3 of all jobs will be heavily soft skills focused.

Are you ready for that?

🤖 With the rapid advances in AI and our good friend ChatGPT, LinkedIn now offers you the ability to get parts of your profile written for you.

For directors and senior leaders, navigating through such periods of change requires more than just managerial acumen—it demands effective leadership to guide teams through uncertainty and ensure continuity of service delivery.

This article includes some of the essential strategies and techniques that leaders can employ to successfully steer their organizations through an organisational restructure.

Great leaders work on developing a blend of competence in the strategy, planning and technical skills AND they couple this with the coaching, communication, emotional intelligence and the softer, human skills.

Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?

Imagine if I could show you how to elevate your leadership while achieving exceptional results, without working longer hours.

If you’re a government employee or manager and want to apply for a more senior role or pay grade increase, you need to position your skills and stand out amongst your peers without coming across as showing off or salesy.

This NAIDOC Week, Yakuway Indigenous Corporation is thrilled to announce the launch of the "Empowering Indigenous Men" project, thanks to a generous $15,000 grant from NSW Aboriginal Affairs. This initiative is dedicated to enhancing the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous men in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region through cultural immersion and support.

When we are busy as leaders it is easy to fall into the tell rather than ASK trap of communication.

This approach focuses too much on the leader’s view and opinion rather than engaging the needs and ideas the employee may have.

Read on for some examples of how to flip it and make it better.

Don’t want to be seen as a boss who:

• Criticize colleagues in meetings with their peers

• Aren’t respectful of others’ time

• Demand unrealistic deadlines

• Consistently canceling meetings with your direct reports

  Then this article is for you…

What would you have wished to know before you started your career?

I believe that the aggressive, push, push, bullying style of leadership is a dying breed.

Leadership of this kind in the public sector and organisations becomes draining for individuals and teams, and ultimately can cost a lot of time and resources.

If you have been bullied or experienced inappropriate conduct, it is important to respond quickly.

Have you ever been in a team with culture drift before?

Today I want to address how to identify it and how to get the team back on track.

I've had a few leaders reach out and ask - what exactly defines Servant Eldership?

This article outlines the basic premise of Servant Eldership and it’s foundations.

Unconventional leaders I know you sometimes feel alone.

If you've ever been told you're a bit crazy, too weird or you're a dreamer or you've just felt like you just don’t belong, I'm here for you. You're my kind of weird!