I was gutted the night I heard there’d be another lock-down, one that was going to hit us here in Auckland really hard. I heard the news on the car radio as I was driving home from the launch of my latest book ‘Women Behaving Courageously: How gutsy women, young and old are transforming the world’ hosted by Poppies bookshop … Read More
Inspiring Women Workshops
So many women get to an age or a stage in their lives where they seem to have lost their way. They may have been made redundant: the kids may have flown the nest: they may be dealing with a relationship breakdown or simply be in a job that leaves them bored out of their minds. We all, at some … Read More
Understanding the Dinosaur Syndrome
Here in NZ we are back to level one, back to normal, or as near normal as possible when a pandemic is still raging elsewhere in the world. Which leads me to ask you a favour: PLEASE DON’T GO BACK TO NORMAL We do things the way we do them because they work, until the day a pandemic hits or … Read More
What to do when lunch-rooms become hotbeds of fear, gossip and resentment
As we all return to work and our new normal begins, be aware that our employees and co-workers have been through massive trauma and will take time to adjust. Covid 19 hit the world real fast and real hard. There was very little time to prepare for the biggest shock most of us have experienced in our lifetimes and which … Read More
We don’t have much money so we’re going to have to think
These famous words from Sir Ernest Rutherford have never been more relevant than they are right now as we all deal with Covid 19. We do what we do the way we’ve always done it for a reason. It works. Until the day it doesn’t or can’t. Right now mostly whatever it is any of us do, doesn’t work and/or … Read More
Are we nearly there yet?
Every parent will be familiar with those words. They are usually yelled plaintively from the back seat 15 minutes into our journey. As we move from level 4 to level 3 of dealing with Covid-19, some will be rushing out the door wanting to restart their lives and their businesses, desperate to get back to ‘normal’. And that’s understandable. Others … Read More
What’s it all about Alfie?
We’re already seeing how the Coronavirus is bringing out the best in some people and the worst in others. That’s normal. When people react negatively to any massive change it’s usually based on their fears; the what if’s; the why me’s and feelings of being out of ‘control’. In previous articles I’ve talked about the 4 stages of grief – … Read More
The best of times and the most terrifying of times.
All our grandparents fought in wars; coronavirus is OUR war. We will survive and we will come out the other side. In the interim, and because it is going to be tough I thought I would share some tips for making the best of the situation we all find ourselves in. Make your business as secure as you can for … Read More
The 2020 KICK BUTT Check list
Happy New Year everyone. Don’t know about you but it already feels like half the year has gone already. Every year we all set off thinking ‘This year I’ll make some changes’ and then we get busy and by March/April we are back to doing what we’ve always done. AGAIN. Except that doing what we’ve always done is a recipe … Read More
Can you learn, unlearn and re-learn?
Although my calls for ‘help’ appear to be different on the surface, underneath they follow a similar pattern. Managers ask for help with wayward employees; employees ask for help with stagnant careers; owners ask for help with stalled business results and franchisors ask for help with franchisees who think they’ve bought a job (I’m an ex franchisor). So I thought … Read More