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Jan 22
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Podcast: From Burnout to Brilliance with Trudy MacDonald

By Work-Life Balance

Dive deep into the journey from burnout to brilliance with leadership expert Trudy MacDonald. Trudy shares fascinating insights about why 38% of Australian workers are experiencing burnout. Drawing from her own experience of burnout as a CEO, and her extensive work with organisations, Trudy reveals practical strategies for building psychological safety, resetting team dynamics, and creating sustainable high performance.

Whether you’re a leader worried about your team’s wellbeing or feeling the strain yourself, this episode offers valuable insights for creating a more balanced and brilliant workplace.

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Mar 05
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Emotional Agility: Giving You The Power To Choose

By Leadership, Personal, Wellness & Wellbeing, Work-Life Balance

Emotional agility is the ability to be flexible with our thoughts and emotions, recognising them as data rather than directives.

It involves accepting and exploring a full range of emotions without judgment, allowing individuals to respond consciously and optimally to situations. By creating space between feeling and action, emotionally agile people can examine their emotions with curiosity and compassion, align their actions with their values, and make purposeful decisions

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Mar 05
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Want To Be Kind To Your Brain? Choose ‘Multipurposing’ Over Multitasking

By Mental Health, Wellness & Wellbeing, Work-Life Balance

Multitasking is often seen as a productivity booster, but research shows it can harm brain health.

Studies reveal that multitasking increases stress, lowers productivity, and can lead to cognitive decline and brain damage over time. Instead of multitasking, the brain-friendly approach is multipurposing—combining a simple, automated task (like walking or eating) with a more complex one (like talking or watching). This allows for efficient, less stressful task management and can even improve social relationships.

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Dec 16
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Sick of scrolling? Digital minimalism could help

By Mental Health, Personal, Wellness & Wellbeing, Work-Life Balance

How many hours have you spent on your phone today? And do you feel like it’s too many?

A growing movement of people are going without their smartphones and computers in favour of just about anything that doesn’t have a screen. They say it’s giving their lives more meaning — and improving their mental health. Meet the digital minimalists in this podcast who are ditching their devices, and how you can do it too.

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Nov 04
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Radical Candour Ted Talk

By Business, Operations, People & Culture, Work-Life Balance

CEO coach and author Kim Scott wrote the book on Radical Candour – this TED Talk provides a good summary. Scott believes that all of life’s problems can be solved by a good 2 by 2 framework and then goes on to demonstrate a framework that allows you ‘to say what you mean without being mean’.

  • High care + high challenge = radical candour.
  • Low care + high challenge = obnoxious aggression.
  • Low care + low challenge = manipulative insincerity.
  • High care + low challenge = ruinous empathy.

A good guide to take your team through so that they can have better and more meaningful conversations.

WATCH HERE

Oct 02
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How Will You Measure Your Life? Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career

By Career Development, Personal, Wellness & Wellbeing, Work-Life Balance

This is an old one but still packs a punch. If you haven’t read it before then give yourself a treat. It’s a seminal article by management guru Clay Christensen. He asks 3 questions:

1.How can I be sure I will be happy in my career;

2.How can I be happy in my family life, and;

3.How can I be sure I will stay out jail.

The last one sounds light-hearted but 2 of the 32 people in his Rhodes scholar class spent time in jail. Christensen asks the reader to think about the purpose of their life, saying it’s the most important thing they will ever discover

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Aug 02
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How to Be a Purpose Driven Leader Without Burning Out​

By Leadership, Personal, Work-Life Balance

Consider a more impact-driven leadership philosophy called “noble-purpose leadership,” that ties leaders and teammates to the pursuit of a shared goal that positively impacts constituents.​

The message is clear: You’re in your role to make an impact. This requires more strategic thinking in terms of where to place your efforts. This article explores three areas where managers can shift their lens to noble-purpose leadership.

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Jun 23
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Australian Companies Thriving with Four-Day Work Week Trials​

By Business, People & Culture, Personal, Work-Life Balance

Australian companies that implemented trials of a four-day work week have experienced many positive outcomes.​

These case studies show increased employee productivity, improved work-life balance, and enhanced employee well-being as a result of the reduced workweek. ​

The findings indicate a growing trend towards exploring alternative work arrangements that prioritise employee satisfaction and productivity.

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