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Category: High Stakes
The Patient Experience
Throughout my career, I have worked as a consultant across a wide range of industries. However, my passion is for healthcare.It can be hard to have the trust and belief that there is a way to make change that will benefit patients and the organisation as a whole, and still ensure that everybody is able…
Leaders and mental health: how to support your people in the best way possible
There doesn’t have to be a crisis looming in order to put the mental health of your people first. In fact, by putting your people’s wellbeing first and foremost, you will increase productivity, morale, and even business outcomes. If you want to boost your business, there is really not many good, solid, in-house ways to…
Nobody likes a bully
Nobody likes a bully. It’s simple enough to say – a blanket statement that in a way, can be as aggressive as bullying itself. It’s something that resonates with most of us though. I mean, really… who could like a bully? A person who, via some possible tactics of intimidation, coercion, or even possibly abuse,…
NAPLAN: Comparisons are unhelpful. Ask the experts!
In recent news, Finnish education expert Dr Pasi Sahlberg is moving his family to Australia. He will take up a new position at the University of New South Wales, in the Gonski Institute for Education. His name might be familiar to those in the education sector – he was one of the architects of the Finnish education…
Depression is depressing, but there can be help
I seem to have talked about depression and anxiety a lot lately. Compounding life events can take their toll, and little by little that inherent worry or sadness begins to feel like you’re going mad, being crushed by the weight of it all. Sometimes it can be simpler than than; a single, impactful moment in…
Those impactful moments…
Everything that has ever happened to us, up until this point in time – right now – has lead us here. Every experience, every memory, and every action is shaped by the ones before it. The way in which we experience the universe is a learned one. We learn to read, understanding what each letter…
High stakes – finding peace
Over the past several weeks, I have been in a space of increasing stakes. There’s been a lot going on in my life, and many things have challenged me head-on. As always, I practice de-escalation of my own raised stakes, admittedly with varying degrees of success. Of course, when offered the luxury of time, and…