Think about your experiences with a great leader you've had in the past. What was it that made them a great leader in your eyes? Big picture, strategic and visionary thinking is important to business success, but it is often the day-to-day...
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From Burnout to Balance: Strategies for Reducing Employee Stress
Employee burnout is emotional or physical exhaustion that brings a lack of motivation and a reduced sense of accomplishment. True burnout is not a casual, occasional thing. Rather, it is specific to one’s job or occupation and is more concerning...
The 3-Step Approach to Managing Poor Performance
Dealing with someone who isn’t performing at the level they should be is frustrating, stressful, exhausting, and time-consuming. NOT dealing with a poor performer can be equally as difficult while risking the productivity, motivation and...
Higher Trust, Lower Turnover: 4 Effective Strategies for Retaining Top Talent
To increase trust, engagement and retention, here’s what you can do to help your company reduce turnover rates. Trust is like a 'piggy bank' There is an imaginary trust ‘piggy bank’ for every person we deal with at work or in our social life. Every...
The Power of Empowering Your People
Progressive businesses are always on the lookout for ways of being more competitive, creating efficiencies, driving growth, and improving business performance. To achieve this, businesses often look for process improvements, lowered costs,...
Master the Art of Leadership: Become a Steward of your Team’s Time
– Naomi Wilson, Founding Director Does this sound familiar to you… You lead a team of six people who all need time from you. But so do your clients, suppliers, strategic partners and countless others. Even though you had the best of intentions,...
Leading Successful Change in your Workplace
– 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...
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...
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