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Expert Interview – “You’ve Got This” with Dr Margie Warrell
How often have you let fear hold you back from doing something you wanted to do? Have you ever looked back and wished you’d been braver? Most of us have. From working with hundreds of women in our community, I have realised a few things. New and emerging leaders...
Emma Taylor – Real Life Story
As Head of Technology for Virgin Australia, Emma knows a thing or two about leadership. She has worked in various industries, starting as a programmer with NAB.During this real-life interview, we will hear some of the highlights of Emma’s career, and how she got to...
Managing Poor Performance
What factors influence poor performance?Poor performance is an outcome of a myriad of different inputs. We also need to watch our own biases when it comes to performance, and what we deem to be 'poor'. If you don't have set outcomes, or expectations for behaviours and...
Nikki Beaumont – Real Life Story
In this real-life interview with the Founder and CEO of Beaumont people, Nikki Beaumont, we chat about how she has grown her organisation and her leadership focus. With over 30 years in recruitment, Nikki Beaumont is passionate about Meaningful Work, and always...
GROW coaching model for Effective Meetings
In the past month inside our Facebook Group, The Female Leaders Collective, we have discussed how to have an effective meeting using the GROW Coaching model. But before we start on how to use it, I will share the meaning of GROW. It is a universal coaching model, it's...
Benefits of Delegation in The Workplace
Ah, Delegation. The one skill set that will set you apart from a high-performing team vs a low-performing team. There are so many benefits of delegation, including growth and development for your team members, more time, people playing to their strengths, increased...
What makes a good female leader?
This is a really interesting question. Part of me wonders should we actually just remove the word 'female' and make the question: "What makes a good leader?" because I think the answers might actually be the same. However, I run an online women's leadership...
Workplace Conflict
How to manage conflict in the workplace? First you need to understand the causes of conflict, and how it escalates. Most conflict can be resolved very early on - if you're a leader that is aware of your environment. If you're switched on to the energy changes and...
Refuse The Monkey
One of the first mistakes new managers make (and some seasoned ones) is trying to fix everything. And worse, they are creating the environment where their team will just keep coming to them with problems and this creates a dependency on you. Now, why it can be nice...
Focus vs Time – where is your intention?
Watch this Facebook live video where I spoke about having focus and not being scattered around. When we have focus - we make change. When we lose focus, we waste our precious energy trying to fix everything all at once, trying put out all the fires and get pulled...
Need More Confidence? Watch this…
I get so many women asking me "Emma, how do I get more confidence?" so I created a Facebook live... watch it here.
We Need Better Managers, Not More Leaders
Stop Making More Leaders! Managers and Leaders are two separate identities. Managers are the ones who get stuff done. The ones that make sure the doors open of a morning, the customers are served and the business is operating well. Leaders are the ones with the...