Great Circle

Many years ago - when I was still a church minister - I had a picture of a donkey on the back of my office door. Underneath it, I had written, “So. Are you leading, riding or carrying the donkey today?” It was a personal reference to Aesop’s fable about the old man, the boy and donkey. Follow [...]

Mid-August, it was my pleasure (along with the two managers of Eastwork Employment and Training pictured here with me) to accept an award for outstanding program design and delivery from the Victorian Minister for Education, Jacinta Allan. The Succeeding at Work pre-accredited program was one I designed for Eastwork Employment a year ago to support jobseekers with [...]

Every two weeks or so, I have a phone conversation with a good friend of mine Julie. She’s also a coach. We did our training together and have kept in close contact ever since. This close contact we share has proved SO valuable to us both as we share our discoveries, collaborate on ideas, hold [...]

Twenty-year marketing veteran and business-owner Roland Reinhart has a creative and seriously good message for those of us who manage people or manage projects, and he explores the world of work and marketing and business on his website Hate Something, Change Something. I am really enjoying his latest podcast series: Run Your Business like Gordon Ramsey. [...]

You know that relentless chatter that goes on inside your own head? Like a running commentary on the world around you and your performance in it? Sometimes I’m aware of it and how it’s affecting me; sometimes I’m in control of it, using it to my advantage; at still other times it seems to run [...]

Randy Frazee (in his book The Connecting Church) wrote the following: “Whatever we measure is really our mission“ In other words, you might say that you are committed to being a cheerful parent who makes his/her children feel appreciated and safe in the world. And yet your measurement of how well things are going at [...]

In January 2004, I injured my back. More accurately, one final injury connected the results of all the previous injuries along with a high degree of emotional stress, and the back decided to lock up for the next two years. Two years of acute and chronic pain with severe restrictions to what I could do. [...]

When your back is turned, are your staff building your business or undermining it? Is your organization a place where people compete for resources rather than collaborating toward outcomes? …where self-protective behaviour prevents innovation and synergy?  Do you wonder why people seem disconnected from each other? While your staff can quote the mission statement, are their [...]