When we hold our team accountable, are we empowering or patronising them? Accountability is the obligation to explain, justify, and take responsibility for one’s actions. From a healthcare perspective, our colleagues and practitioners should be accountable for the...
The 5 most important questions you’ll ever ask to improve productivity and efficiency in your people – and help them have their best month at work yet! Connecting with your people is a crucial goal of leadership. Asking them important questions to discover their...
Kindness is a wonderful thing. It is a value recognised in most cultures and religions. It’s a pleasant disposition that shows concerns for others. In his book Rhetoric, Aristotle defines kindness as “helpfulness towards someone in need, not in return for anything,...
In terms of natural seasons, Winter has absolutely arrived in Melbourne. That said, seasons are a natural part of life. Just like we see cycles in the property sector and stock market, and we observe the circle of life in the biology of every living creature, so our...
I am coming through a very uncomfortable stage in my leadership development. But it has been worth it. For nearly two decades I have been leading the Back In Motion Health Group. As founders, my wife and I did EVERYTHING at the beginning. We decided the...
An old allegory, recorded more than 2000 years ago by the inspired writers of the Gospels, tells of a man who sows seed in the garden. This fabled story is called the Parable of the Sower and can be read in full...
40 years of life experience and observation convinces me of this truism: “When you change a leader, you inevitably change a team.” The profundity of this truth has landed more concretely for me as I’ve reflected over Christmas. Strong and positive leadership, by...
Leadership One of my most impacting personal discoveries of leadership is best represented by the story of a little seven-year-old boy who observed the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly. You can read the story here: www.gauraw.com/story-of-a-butterfly/...
Ever noticed that people enter a pool in different ways? Some will put their toe in the water and slowly wade in while doing those abdominal exercises of sucking their stomachs in because of the cool water. The elegant will do a swan dive, leaving no splash upon their...
‘10X’ is an iconic symbol that has come to mean something specific in our contemporary pop culture. 10X is a shorthand that originated in Silicon Valley where software engineers were expected to achieve ten multiples of productivity through the automation of a process...
