Category: Blog articles
The Power of Gratitude for a More Meaningful Life
Gratitude can transform your life in many ways. By focusing on the positive aspects of your life, you can experience greater joy, contentment, and fulfillment. Cultivating a mindset of gratitude can also improve your relationships, boost your resilience, and enhance your overall well-being. In this article, we’ll explore the power of gratitude and how you…
How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Organisational Culture
Over the last 20 years I’ve experienced a major change in the acceptability of using mindfulness techniques in organisational culture. I can remember hearing from people in the 1990’s that it was a spiritual practice and was not suitable in a professional workplace. I also worked in some Catholic organisations and heard people say that…
Noticing meaning in your life is helpful
I was talking with someone recently who said that they had given up trying to figure out the purpose and meaning of life. They said it was too difficult and had made them feel a bit hopeless. It sounded like they were experiencing some grief over this and that it was putting them in a…
Routine can bring a sense of meaning in life
I like things to go the way that I expect them to – most of the time anyway. A predictable life with routine and habits means I don’t have to think about every little thing that I do. What I hadn’t appreciated until recently was how these routines help me find more meaning in my…
Valuing what you put time into
Around Saturday lunchtime I look around the house and feel a sense of satisfaction as I can see clean floors, dry washing, and empty bins. There is something about doing it with my partner that makes me value the result all the more. There have been times when our family was really busy and we…
People love an Organisational Culture that matters
When people join an organisation, there’s usually some reason why they want to be there. Sometimes it’s just a job, but often it’s about connecting to the purpose, the values, and the organisational culture. The big WHY – why does this organisation matter, why does it do what it does? Those things can be attractive. But…
Winding up a Not For Profit
I was surprised when I was reading the Australian Institute of Company Directors report recently, it was a report on Not For Profit Governance and Performance in 2015. The report was saying that one of the factors was that 8% of all boards in the non-profit sector have discussed winding up in the last year. …
Seek the rewards of using your strengths at work
How can I as a leader be kinder to myself, and allow my strengths to shine through? There’s a part of me that seems hardwired to focus on deficits rather than strengths in myself, despite being able to see strengths in others. Having worked in the social service industry for the last 25 years I…
How did I get here?
It’s easy to forget why I’m doing what I’m doing here – what’s the overall reason behind it. If I’m not on the path I thought I was, I might be experiencing “mission drift” – that slow creeping compromise, bit by bit, where you end up somewhere quite different than you had intended. “mission drift”…
Does sharing power make me a better leader?
Why would a leader want to give away some of their power? And if they do so, what works in its place? Maybe there are some new technology solutions, and organising approaches that could be part of the solution. I had an experience as a young leader that has influenced the way that I think…
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