How do those who should help become instigators of harm? I have been lucky enough to work for organisations where HR are respected, regarded and even loved by its people. However, I have also experienced the situation where HR are the cruellest, most feared and avoided unit in the whole organisation. Right now I am dealing with this latter situation…

How do you feel about your strategic plan? This may seem like an odd question, yet your emotional reaction to it is integral to its success. In traditional strategic planning processes, so much attention is paid to getting the content right. Great investments are made in gathering and analysing data…

Is it a battle playing out in your organisation? — When I wrote that disengagement was dehumanising, I thought I was being bold and controversial. It seemed a little brash to be equating an HR indicator with the most frightful of human behaviours. And yet, when leaders permit physical and mental harm to befall their people, what other explanation could…

How porn breeds stupidity and cowardly silence…and also leads to erectile dysfunction. — Missy Jubilee presents the films in The Future Sex Love Art Projekt to be an “intelligent alternative to dumb porn.” Calling porn “dumb” may seem simplistic and even childish. But Missy’s words are always chosen with intuition, insight and intention. So while the term may be minimalistic, it holds great…

One of the most dangerous assumptions you can make is that everyone else will know what you mean when you say the word love. The reality is that we all have unique understandings of what love is, shaped by our first childhood experiences. We bring these unique views into every…

Have you ever experienced heartbreak at work? No, I am not talking about the juicy dramas involved in unrequited flirtations around the water cooler. When I speak of heartbreak at work, I mean the deep despair that comes from the realisation that your organisation will not reciprocate the devotion you…

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting drives increased accountability for the consequences of organisational activities. However, it also has a more profound and exciting benefit. This is the recognition ESG gives to interdependence, which is necessary for the leap to the next level of human maturity. …

Every business has suffered from Covid-19. Organisations large and small have struggled with increased absenteeism, decreased productivity and disruption to customer services. Survey results show another pandemic rife in the Queensland Public Sector, and this one will take even longer than Covid to eradicate. It is the scourge of apathy. …

If you read the previous article on the Public Trustee of Queensland, you would have seen that most staff in the agency did not believe they had high-quality leadership. One would like to think that this situation is atypical in the public service, and the catastrophic results that befell their…