Changing the World Challenges

Running a purpose driven business presents unique challenges that organisations and leaders need to face and be prepared for, even have answers for, in order to create the change they are building momentum behind. Building an awareness of these unique challenges early in the journey, helps circumvent some of the inevitable headaches along the way and identifies areas to strengthen proactively rather than reactively.

5 Tips to Ensure you Recruit the Right Person

As is so often the case at the beginning of a new season, everywhere I turn people are talking about needing to hire new staff.  Which can be really exciting, but it can also be daunting, expensive and time consuming. So how do you make sure you hire the right person?  So often we approach this process from the perspective of what skills are required for the job.  And while this is obviously essential, it doesn’t paint the whole picture and can leave you with a highly skilled employee who

Safe V's Risky Problems

We all have problems - that much should a given. My question for you is whether your challenges are safe problems or risky problems? As I prep for an upcoming workshop on being an inspiring leader, I have been thinking and talking a lot about the illusion of control. As leaders - especially newer leaders, we can experience a lot of uncertainty in our role. Not knowing exactly what we are doing, what is expected of us, how others have done things in the past, how to best serve everyone on the