I Know. You Are Tired of Hearing About AI. So Am I. So let us talk about something far more interesting. You. Human beings have navigated tectonic realignment before. The printing press put scribes out of work. The industrial revolution replaced manual labour. The internet made entire industries obsolete overnight. […]
Nobody Told You It Would Feel Like This. When you started your business, or stepped into that leadership role, you had a plan. You knew your product. You knew your market. You knew what great looked like. And then 2026 arrived. And the game changed in ways nobody had prepared you for. […]
Have you ever had that sinking feeling when someone on your team is not performing? You know the one. Right in the pit of your stomach. It’s been hiding in plain sight for a while. Missed deadlines. Falling short of targets. A flatness about them that wasn’t there before. And the temptation, […]
We spend an awful lot of time in organisations talking about culture, engagement, retention, and wellbeing. These are BIG words. Important words. But somewhere in the middle of all that conversation, a simpler thing gets lost. The quality of the dialogue. Socrates believed that knowledge wasn’t “given.” It was produced through the shared exchange of […]
I was reading through the AHRI summary of the recent AFR Workforce Summit, and one thing jumped straight out at me. The conversation has shifted. It is no longer just about finding someone with the right experience or the right qualifications. The leaders in that room were talking about something far more interesting. […]
And most organisations never see it coming. AHRI’s latest research is clear. Australian organisations are investing heavily in technical skills but falling short when it comes to developing the human ones. Yet we keep taking our best technical people, giving them a bigger desk and a round of applause, and leaving them to […]
Everyone is talking about AI. And yet, in the conversations I am having with HR professionals and people leaders, what comes up more than the technology itself is the anxiety sitting underneath it. The people I talk to generally have mixed feelings. They see AI as a tool that can help them get stuff […]
The latest Employee Engagement report from Gallup landed, and what it tells us, I think is quite sobering… Global employee engagement has now fallen for the second consecutive year, sitting at just 20%. In Australia, we are at 21% (down 2 points). That means 4 in every 5 people going to work every day are […]
An article I came across this week got me thinking. HRD Australia published an interesting piece stating that gut feel hiring is out and structure is in. They’re right. And it’s something I’ve lived on both sides of. Over my career, I’ve hired a lot of people. In the early years, like most, […]
I sat down this week to write a post about leadership. And then I stopped. In times like these, rising costs, global uncertainty, the constant noise of the news cycle, the usual conversations about growth and strategy feel a little hollow. Not because they don’t matter. But because people matter more. The […]