Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Regenerating Team Energy
In a 2021 YouTube video, Gerhard Papenfus, CEO of the National Employers Association of South Africa, urged employers not to make quick-fix or knee-jerk implementations in response to the Covid pandemic suggested regulations, and rather to look further down the line. He asked, “Where will your culture be a year from now?”. It was a…
Read MoreReset Your Energy & Your Course
Whenever you put two or more people together, a new culture is created between them. Each person brings their beliefs, values and perspectives to the space they share, and those beliefs, values and perceptions overlap or differ to varying degrees. As human beings, we’re wired for survival, and we’ve achieved that fairly solidly over the…
Read MoreThe Strength In Our Differences
It’s part of our survival instinct as human beings to look for threats and defend ourselves against them. Once upon a time, the part of our brain responsible for reacting to threats would have been on the alert for a sabre-toothed tiger. Today, the same part of our brain responsible for our survival instincts still…
Read MoreEffective Communication – A Reminder
As this current Global Pandemic chapter continues to stretch out, the conversations around us ebb and morph. We are all being challenged on deeply personal levels to form opinions that affect our here and now as well as our future, at the same time as trying to keep a handle on the operation of our…
Read MoreThe Power of Team
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.” – H. E. Luccock There is very little of great consequence that we can do alone. Being human, we also prefer to do things together – to share ideas, to share skills, to share journeys. Being part of an effective team requires…
Read MoreThe Year The World Cracked Open
Disclaimer: This won’t be my typical post as such, because it’s hard, if not impossible to write anything “typical” with authenticity right now. It will, I hope, come back round to end with the things I believe most passionately about in my core – communication, connection, growth, truth and team. The world has become an…
Read MoreDiversity – The Key and The Crux
Diversity is the both the source of some of humanity’s greatest strengths and greatest frustrations. We’ve seen horrendous demonstrations of some people’s fight against diversity this last week in truly disappointing human fashion. Our differences are both what strengthen us and what scare us. They divide, and they bring us together. Each of us has…
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