Book Review – Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
General Stanley McChrystal is well placed to dispense hard-won wisdom on leadership, organisational structure, teamwork and the most efficacious ways to adapt to the forces at play that affect how an organisation performs. A four-star general with thirty four years’ service in the US Army…
Six Key Leadership Positions Made Available – Are You Up For a Fresh Challenge?
My team and I delighted to be partnering with Naomi Dwyer and her team at the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Services (SCHHS) to recruit to six key leadership roles:
Recovery on Kangaroo Island
In the midst of the current COVID 19 pandemic it is easy to forget that as little as 3 months ago fires were raging across Australia. One of the places gravely effected by the bush fires was Kangaroo Island off the coast of South Australia….
Strategies to harness your resilience, creativity and empathy when highly stressed
Dr Liz Paslawsky has spent the past 20 years travelling the world finding mentors to gain insights into the diversity of ways to increase levels of consciousness & gain self-awareness through ancient wisdoms. Never have these insights and skills been more applicable than in today’s…
It’s About The People (He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata)
Often my team ask me to write about roles we are recruiting to because I know about the organisation and the district, but what else really matters? As Maori say – He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata. It is the people, the people, the people….
Whatever It Takes
I’ll keep this brief On the 20th of December 2019, when the year was in wrap up mode for many of us, I wrote an article for our newsletter paying tribute to health and human service leaders throughout Australasia and to their remarkable teams. Coming…
CEO Flinders and Upper North LHN
A new model of governance and accountability in the public health system in South Australia was implemented from 1 July, 2019 with the introduction of Local Health Network Governing Boards. Across the State this resulted in one Statewide, three metropolitan and six regional Local Health…
1 on 1 Meeting Questions – Master List
As Dale Carnegie put it, “ask questions the other person will enjoy answering”. Below is a mega list of great questions for different contexts in the workforce. And if you seek further guidance on questioning and its power, click here.
Book Review: Normal People By Sally Rooney
Following the commercial and critical success of Conversations with Friends, young Irish writer Sally Rooney has returned with a second novel already hailed by some as a ‘future classic’. Normal People follows the lives of two young individuals, from their last year in high school…
Could You Change The Mental Health Landscape?
Mental health and addiction problems touch the lives of many people throughout Australia and New Zealand. I am sure for many of us we have seen the ‘stats’ or an iteration of them depending on the source: