What Matters

Getting clear on what matters most to you in your career and the work you do is a vital component of your career shift. This clarity provides a foundation for both your decision and where you focus your efforts.

Too often we focus on what we can do and the gaps we feel we have in capability. People will start writing their CV or updating their Linkedin profile focusing on what they can do before they think about what they want. As the fabulous Lisa O'Neil says in her book, Everything You Want, we don't think about what we want often enough.

So clarity on what you want and your capability, the...

I was delighted with the successful launch of Energy Queensland's new culture and values. It was a privilege to work with the team before, during, and after cyclone season to capture and articulate What Matters Most to EQL. I have tremendous respect for the EQL team and am excited about what lies ahead in this once-in-a-lifetime transformation across the energy sector.

I'm in the business of cultures that work.

You know a culture is good when it works - that is, a culture enables positive, productive work.

You know a culture is working when:

• People feel they belong and can bring...

We know culture is important. Sixty-seven per cent of respondents in PwC’s 2021 Global Culture Survey considered culture more critical for success than strategy or operating model, and 81% attributed culture as a point of competitive advantage.

We know culture can be changed on purpose. PwC’s survey found that a staggering 80% of team members are disappointed with their organisation’s culture, 76% of leaders believe culture is changeable, and 65% of leaders believe they need to change their current culture. Yet only 15% of organisations report culture...

Are you considering changing jobs? or shifting careers? You are not alone. For the second year in a row, 9.5% of Australians have changed roles in the last 12 months — job mobility is at the highest level since 2012.

For over 20 years, I have guided hundreds of leaders and executives through their careers and key transitions.

I care about helping you focus on what matters most to you and shifting to a more meaningful, successful, and sustainable career.

I've designed this online Careershift program to help you reflect on where you are now, where you’d like to be, and how to get...

Are you spending this weekend wondering if you should stay or if you should go?

Try to get to somewhere you can find perspective - spend some time in nature or somewhere with a view you can look out to see a bigger picture.

Make a list of pros, cons and considerations about making a move.

Try not to get stuck in a binary bind with only two choices. Generate a list of at least 10 options so that you aren't torn between two.

Think about your strengths and what you already know (and who you know) - could this take you in a different direction?

Connect, connect, connect! Talk it through with...

Over the 25 years that I have worked in, on, and around culture and leadership, what has struck me is that while nearly all leaders believe culture is important, too few feel confident and competent to change it.

Many leaders think of culture change purely as a big organisation-wide thing, separate from their everyday.

This is a culture myth I am pretty passionate about busting wide open.

Culture is actionable. Culture is doable. You don't need a big program of work to shift your culture.

How you lead - your everyday actions - can shift the culture around you.

#culture #shiftyourculture...

In my book, Shift: Everyday actions leaders can take to shift culture, I share my GRASS model.

GRASS was born out of my frustration with culture models that were either too stuffy or too fluffy for leaders who just wanted to know what to do.

After synthesising decades of research, I narrowed the list of moments that matter most down to 8.

The three most well known are first impressions, when things are going well and when things aren’t going well. These are all moments of truth for team members and leaders. I call these the groundwork. We need to work on these in every relationship.

GRASS...

Is your day full of meetings that are old habits?

People form habits, but so do teams and organisations.

Try a calendar review this week - how many meetings will you find that are no longer required? Just hanging around like old habits?

#oldhabitsdiehard

Are you forgetting an important part of your day job?

Are you leading your culture?

Culture is not something extra that you do on top of your day job. Culture is not something you do once a year when it’s engagement survey time.

Culture is the cumulative effect of your leadership:

* How and why you bring people together (or not).
* What rituals you and your team share- how you greet, celebrate and farewell.
* What you do and how you do it. Your actions, even when you think no one’s looking (and someone is always looking).
* What people see - the symbols and signs, the unwritten rules.
*...

My mission is to make culture simple and actionable for leaders.

I work with executives, CEOs and leadership teams to shape, shift, strengthen and lead cultures.

Having led culture at the Executive and Board level for more than 15 years, with ASX10 and global teams, I now work as a strategist, speaker, and mentor, building cultures that work.

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