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November 7, 2025
Earlier this week, I was fortunate to spend some time working on our beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula. Wading barefoot in the surf, pants rolled up, is one of my all-time favourite things to do.
On this particular
Navigating the Fine Line Between Psychosocial Risk and Reasonable Management Action
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October 30, 2025
Now that Managers are starting to really think about how to prevent psychosocial injury and harm, I’m noticing a lot of my coaching conversations are focused on supporting the manager to tread the fine line
Safe Change – Reducing the Risk of Psychosocial Harm Associated with Organisational Change
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October 16, 2025
Following my last blog: The Crucial Role of Managers in Addressing Psychosocial Risk – And How Coaching Can Help, I’ve had lots of questions about psychosocial risk and managing change, so thought I’d share some
The Crucial Role of Managers in Addressing Psychosocial Risk – And How Coaching Can Help
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July 8, 2025
In today’s workplaces, psychosocial risks—those that impact mental and emotional wellbeing—are being increasingly recognised as serious hazards. These include everything from burnout, stress, and anxiety to more severe psychological injury.
While managing these risks is a
Emotion – No Longer the Poor Cousin
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September 14, 2020
As human beings, we’re hard wired to experience emotions, and whether we realise it or not, our emotions strongly influence our thoughts, decisions and behaviour. Emotion is simply energy running through the body, and how
Trust Me I’m A Manager….
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January 24, 2020
No matter what kind of relationship we’re talking about – intimate partners or a workplace team, trust is critical to the health of the relationship. And the health of the relationship impacts directly on the
Failure Is Not An Option….Or Is It?
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March 5, 2019
When the #2 oxygen tank on Apollo 13 exploded, the spaceship with its 3 crew is left crippled on the other side of the moon. With diminishing power, heat, water and oxygen supplies, the best and
Under the Bonnet
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February 8, 2019
It can be scary looking under the bonnet of your car…you don’t know what you might find, and what you don’t know can’t hurt you, right? Well maybe, until the car breaks down in the
The Safety Manager
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September 25, 2018
Most workplaces these days have a designated safety officer who, supported by a myriad of policies, procedures and systems, helps identify and manage the risk of workplace accident and injury.
Recently I’ve noticed I also have
The Curiosity Show
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July 24, 2018
We are born naturally curious – we want to know everything there is to know about the world, soaking up information and experience like a sponge. But at some point our curiosity becomes a burden.