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Would you use ChatGPT to write your LinkedIn bio?
🤖 With the rapid advances in AI and our good friend ChatGPT, LinkedIn now offers you the ability to get parts of your profile written for you.
Navigating Change: Strategies for Government Leaders During Agency Restructuring
For directors and senior leaders, navigating through such periods of change requires more than just managerial acumen—it demands effective leadership to guide teams through uncertainty and ensure continuity of service delivery.
This article includes some of the essential strategies and techniques that leaders can employ to successfully steer their organizations through an organisational restructure.
Are you getting the BLEND right?
Great leaders work on developing a blend of competence in the strategy, planning and technical skills AND they couple this with the coaching, communication, emotional intelligence and the softer, human skills.
Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?
Feeling overwhelmed with your workload and struggling to make a strategic impact in your executive role?
Imagine if I could show you how to elevate your leadership while achieving exceptional results, without working longer hours.
📣 Free LinkedIn resource for leaders who want to progress in their career
If you’re a government employee or manager and want to apply for a more senior role or pay grade increase, you need to position your skills and stand out amongst your peers without coming across as showing off or salesy.
Camping On Country: Empowering Indigenous Men Through Cultural Connection
This NAIDOC Week, Yakuway Indigenous Corporation is thrilled to announce the launch of the "Empowering Indigenous Men" project, thanks to a generous $15,000 grant from NSW Aboriginal Affairs. This initiative is dedicated to enhancing the mental health and wellbeing of Indigenous men in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region through cultural immersion and support.
The Lazy Leadership Communication Trap
When we are busy as leaders it is easy to fall into the tell rather than ASK trap of communication.
This approach focuses too much on the leader’s view and opinion rather than engaging the needs and ideas the employee may have.
Read on for some examples of how to flip it and make it better.
What People REALLY Want to Say to Their Bosses (But Don’t)...
Don’t want to be seen as a boss who:
Criticize colleagues in meetings with their peers
Aren’t respectful of others’ time
Demand unrealistic deadlines
Consistently canceling meetings with your direct reports
Then this article is for you…
Overcoming Burnout - Career Tips
What would you have wished to know before you started your career?
Bullies are a dying breed
I believe that the aggressive, push, push, bullying style of leadership is a dying breed.
Leadership of this kind in the public sector and organisations becomes draining for individuals and teams, and ultimately can cost a lot of time and resources.
If you have been bullied or experienced inappropriate conduct, it is important to respond quickly.