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Navigating Your Mid-Career Journey: A Blueprint for Fulfilment
Mid-career is a pivotal stage, often marked by a blend of professional achievements and burgeoning aspirations for more meaningful impact and personal fulfilment. Drawing inspiration from the wisdom of Jane Fonda, who eloquently divided life into three acts, this...
How to Establish and Review Individual and Team Performance Objectives
I run annual temperature checks for an organisation I have worked with for over 3 years. The idea of these sessions is that I spend 30 minutes with each member of the organisation as a cultural check-in to see how they are enjoying their role. We explore the...
How to Set Yourself up for Professional Success when Managing a Team
When I worked for Diageo Australia I managed a team of Trade Marketing and Events & Sponsorship professionals. It was this experience, and the high performance framework and tools provided by the Human Resource team that enabled me to develop a people management...
Is Australia heading in the right direction?
In December 2017 I shared this piece, Discovering What it Means to Be Australian, which focuses on the year that was. As a lover of the written word, I mention a book that's had a profound impact on me. It's Stan Grant’s second book, Talking To My Country, described...
The hazards of parenting in the digital age
My first born started secondary college this year. With high school comes the adventure to catch a bus to school each day. With this adventure comes the inevitable conversation about whether he needs a mobile phone. After discussing this while camping with a close...
PERMA: The Scientific Theory of Happiness
In the last week of the primary school term, my extended family and I attended the Class of 2017, Grade 6 Graduation. As one of the two School Captains, Master 12 played the role of MC along with his female counterpart. We began the evening listening to a speech...
How to Manage the Overwhelm
Whenever I start to notice patterns in what's going on around me, I put plans in place to adapt or respond to them. These patterns may be positive, such as good ideas, interesting people I'd like to explore a collaboration with, or learn from, or time saving...
Do you need a board of directors for your professional journey?
How do you make important decisions these days? Are they left on the back-burner and you get stuck in indecision? Or perhaps you make decisions on the run and deal with the consequences later! When you wish to make important decisions about your career or business, it...
How I found light in the darkness of dementia
For regular readers of my blog, and those who have been part of my journey since Think Bespoke was first established, you'll know that one of the driving forces behind starting my business was my Mum's diagnosis of dementia (specifically vascular dementia and...