by Greg Mitchell | May 22, 2025 | Culture, Leadership, Success Through People Model, Teams
The challenge of difficult conversations came to my mind this week following a discussion with a client who was dealing with a situation of apparent persistent bullying behaviour by one of their supervisors. The manager had tried to address the issues informally in...
by Greg Mitchell | Feb 3, 2025 | Accountability, Culture, Engagement, Expectations, Leadership, Success Through People Model
I was chatting with one of our small business clients the other day, who was proudly (and rightly so) telling me of his success since implementing regular one-on-one meetings with his team. He mentioned the benefits of the meetings in terms of maintaining...
by Greg Mitchell | Jan 24, 2025 | Culture, Leadership
The theme of resilience popped into my head the other day as I was driving to visit my elderly Mum in her aged facility. It’s about a 45-minute journey, much of it on the motorway, which means I was driving at or close to the speed limit for much of the time, 110kmh....
by Greg Mitchell | Jan 8, 2025 | Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Success Through People Model
For many, the mention of “workplace culture” conjures up images of happy employees, vibrant office spaces, and a general sense of employee well-being (fruit bowl and a table tennis table in the lunchroom, anyone?). While employee satisfaction/happiness is undeniably...
by Greg Mitchell | Aug 24, 2022 | Culture, Engagement, Leadership, Success Through People Model
As regular readers will know, one of the key components of our Success Through People Model© is “Equipping Others”: ensuring that those engaged in your business have the tools, resources, information and capabilities necessary to succeed in their role. Of course, this...
by Greg Mitchell | Nov 29, 2020 | Culture
Just as canaries were once used to check the gas levels in coalmines (dead canary = no go zone), so COVID has proven to be an indicator of the health, or otherwise, of workplace cultures. We’ve directly see it play out in the workplaces of our clients and others...