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Develop strong teams and culture to achieve bigger dreams in your business.

One of the top 3 reasons businesses fail, is they fail to establish the right team to run their business.

The right team with the right ideas and abilities to execute them is critical to your business succeeding and adapting to changing environmental pressures.

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Lead resilient teams.

Create a high-performance customer-obsessed culture.

More time for you to focus on your business than in your business.

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Lead highly engaged teams.

Manage for value, not inputs.

Learn to love feedback.

Learn fast, fail fast – create a culture that adapts and can thrive in crisis.

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Geared for Growth Business Blogs

Leadership Building Strong Teams Through Leadership Development: Lessons from UPS Executive Noel Massie Discover Noel Massie’s insights on leadership development, coaching, and building strong teams for lasting... Read More Leadership Connection Capital: The Human Side of Operational Excellence Connection Capital: Empowering Women Leaders to Drive Operational Excellence Discover... Read More Business Growth Cultivating Cultural Competence: The Key to Building Stronger, More Inclusive Organisations Cultivating Cultural Competence: A Strategic Imperative for Stronger Organisations In my years working in organisational... Read More Leadership Leadership Matters: How Your Team Can Be the Calm in the Storm Your Team Can Be the Calm in the Storm Every leader I talk to right now... Read More Bali Retreat What They Loved Most – Reflections from Rising Retreat in Bali What They Loved Most – Reflections from Rising Retreat in Bali When women gather with intention, something... Read More Bali Retreat Unlock Your Feminine Power in the Heart of Bali! Are you ready to step into your full potential and embrace the power of your feminine energy? Join us... Read More Team development Harnessing the Power of Midpoints in Team Transformation Navigating Successful Transformations at the Midpoints: Building Effective Teams By Dr. Josephine Palermo... Read More Leadership Podcast Episode 73: The Animals in Projectland with Dawn Mahan Podcast Episode 73: The Animals in Projectland with Dawn Mahan What... Read More Business Growth Breaking Barriers and Building Braid: Quinn Li O’Shea’s Journey in Silicon Valley Episode 72 of Teams, Culture & You with Braid Founder Quinn Li O’Shea In Episode 72 of Teams, Culture... Read More Leadership Hacks for a fulfilled successful life Morning and Evening Routines for Success My morning and evening routines are designed to keep me focused,... Read More Hybrid work Mandated office days can be a double-edged sword for workers Hybrid Work As someone who has been following the debates on hybrid and remote work for over five years... Read More Coaching The Quantum Field and Power of Intention with Toper Taylor Exploring the Quantum Field: Dr. Toper Taylor on Human Performance Intention In an electrifying episode... Read More Build a Team Strategy, Growth and Culture: Where Organisations Get It Wrong A conversation with Jim Bletchley, CEO of the Bletchley Group In a recent podcast conversation, Jim Bletchley,... Read More Leading Change Leading Change and Disrupting HR in Brisbane In between hosting an incredible group of women in Bali for my Feminine Power Retreat in May, it’s been... Read More Bali Retreat Discovering Feminine Power: A Journey Through a Bali Retreat Introduction to the Retreat The Rising to Feminine Power retreat in Bali is a intentionally crafted experience... Read More Fostering Gender Equality A Significant Week for Gender Equity This week holds significant developments: Australia’s private sector gender pay gap has been revealed... Read More Favorite Playful Practices My Favourite Playful Practices At work we often double down on the aspects of yourself that leads with confidence, is in control and... Read More Team development Why our ideas about team development are wrong!   I had the idea for this blog because of an article I saw recently on the Atlassian website. It tried... Read More Diversity and Inclusion Unveiling Feminine Power: Stories of Triumph and Transformation Embracing Collective Strength and Personal Empowerment In the quest for true power, it’s time we... Read More Leadership Ambidextrous Leadership: The Key to Success in a Changing World In today’s fast-paced business environment, leaders need to be able to think both strategically... Read More Feminine Power Feminine Power Biases drive our behaviour and underpin our organizational systems Biases exist in our society and affect... Read More 4 Day Work Week The 4 Day Work Week Everyone is familiar with the typical workweek of five days, eight hours a day. But what if we could... Read More Global Leadership Forecast 2023 The Global Leadership Forecast 2023: Fragile Workforce, Shortfalls in Trust in Leadership, and the Necessity to Develop New Skills The Global Leadership Forecast to report series is the longest-running global study of leadership, conducted... Read More Business model When a small business fails Covid-19 had a devastating effect on my small business. As an eternal optimist, I have written a lot... Read More Business culture Networking for Luck I recently saw this management tip of the day from HBR and it resonated with me, because this is exactly... Read More New Year's Resolution New Year’s Resolutions you will stick to As 2023 starts to well and truly gear up how are your resolution going? Whether it’s eating healthier,... Read More Sustainability Reflect on the past year and set your intentions Reflect on the past year and set your intentions for the year to come with the help of the Inner Development... Read More Build a Team Reenergising a Depleted Team: 6 Conditions Many of my clients have been noticing the same thing, “Everyone on my team seems tired…all the time.... Read More Build a Team Why we are not serious about developing team leaders? In many of the organisations I work with, I find that teams are a protective factor against the adverse... Read More Effective teams Today I won in a virtual meeting Today while facilitating a large meeting, I actually got people to focus and be present in the room.... Read More Hybrid Working Balancing Act: The New Equation in Hybrid Working (Part 1) The Covid-19 pandemic led to many benefits for workers, one of which is the work-from-home arrangement.... Read More Effective teams Why Diverse Teams Need Psychological Safety to Excel We know that different perspectives and ideas lead to innovation and better performance. However, in... Read More Build a Team What We Know About Team Development I had the idea for this blog because of an article I saw recently on the Atlassian website. It tried... Read More Business culture Do Start-Ups Need a HRMS? We don’t need human resources! Structure is the death of good culture! I’m hearing this a... Read More Transformation Transitioning to Hybrid Working Transitioning to Hybrid Working is not about going back to normal. 2020 was the year the world went remote.... Read More Business culture A Culture of Innovation How Do You Foster A Culture Of Innovation In A Large Company? Innovation is not an end state, rather,... Read More Business culture The Relationship between Business Strategy and Company Culture What is the relationship between business strategy and company culture? How does company culture support... Read More Business culture Changing Your Company Culture How Do You Change Your Company Culture? As a result of focus and reflection on their culture, organisations... Read More Business culture The Perfect Organisational Culture Is there a perfect organisational culture? How does an organisation determine what culture best impacts... Read More Business culture The Development of Organisational Culture How can you engage employees to go the extra mile, execute strategies and advocate for the organisation’s... Read More Business culture Managing Cultural Diversity How do you achieve cultural diversity? Why is it important to manage the cultural diversity? Cultural... Read More Coaching Changing Business Culture: News From Geared For Growth Change or Launch a career in Team Coaching! Join me and fellow Team Coach Andrew Madams for a webinar... Read More Business culture My Top 10 Writers on Organisational Culture (Part 2) # 5 Kim Cameron and Robert Quinn Kim Sterling Cameron, William Russell Kelly Professor of Management... Read More Business culture My Top 10 Writers on Organisational Culture (Part 1) I have dedicated a majority of my working life to building strong organisational cultures. I am obsessed... Read More Business culture The Focus in 2022 is on Wellbeing More Than Ever AHRI Pulse Survey of 760 HR professionals across Australia in late 2021 revealed that the focus for 2022... Read More Leadership The Great Resignation: 5 Actions Leaders Should Take Now The world watched as the increase in attrition happened in the U.S. as a result of the pandemic when... Read More Transformation 3 Tactics to Accelerate a Digital Transformation Living in a digital world means change is not only inevitable but also rapid. Digital transformation... Read More Business culture 3 Rules for Better Work-life Balance A huge source of employee depression arises from the stress that comes from the “always-on” culture and... Read More Working from home Cope with Uncertainty: Routine, Connection, and Boundaries Two years into this pandemic, we find ourselves living in a time of economic insecurity, prolonged uncertainty,... Read More Effective teams From Heads to Heart The shift we have had: from hands to heads Many of the jobs we do today require cognitive rather than... Read More Effective teams The Dark Side of Time Management I am so overworked, there is too much to do and my workload is not getting any lighter. Sound familiar?... Read More Effective teams Employee Involvement is Key to Great Transformation Transformation is the new constant. Organisations are re-imagining themselves in response to unprecedented... Read More Effective teams One of the best job advertisements I've have ever seen I recently stumbled across a role that Linktree was advertising and it was one of the best introductions... Read More Effective teams Kintsukuroi: Putting the pieces back together with gold As a business owner and entrepreneur, I have been waiting for the post-Covid world to happen for some... Read More Effective teams Staying Focussed in a sea of distraction I’ve been finding it hard to focus lately I often listen to a podcast called “7 good minutes”... Read More Business culture In Covid in Australia we are all Kantians: How philosophy can help us through tough times If we were students of philosophy we would turn to the great thinkers of our past like Immanuel Kant... Read More Business culture Hybrid Workplaces and Gender Equality Many organisations are achieving gender equality in their working practices by adopting more flexible... Read More Effective teams What? You're a Climate Change Sceptic???? I had an argument with someone I care about the other day…It was an argument about the facts…the... Read More Business culture What Psychological Safety Looks Like in a Hybrid Workplace I love the work of Amy Edmonson. Her seminal research on psychological safety provided the framework... Read More Working from home We don't want to go back to the office I wanna do it my way Results from the latest workplace survey by PWC suggest that the majority of workers... Read More Build a Team Build your Best Team Welcome to the Gears, Action, Growth podcast with Christy Mori and Dr Josephine Palermo. We recently... Read More Build a Team Are we still in a pandemic? How to effectively lead a team in 2021 We have successfully endured 2020. We utilised all our coping strategies and positivity to get through... Read More Working from home Men want flexibility too The Australian Financial Review this week had a fascinating article about flexible work and the preferences... Read More Working from home What's the office for when we can work from home? Recently, we have been asking how do we make work more flexible. Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated shifts... Read More Leadership Create a good company culture to attract the right customers to you Are you working on your company culture? If you’re not you are missing opportunities to attract the right... Read More Coaching How do I find a business coach or mentor? ‘There are so many people out there offering advice for my business problems, it’s overwhelming!’ This... Read More
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Our leadership events empower Executive and Team Leaders with actionable strategies, expert insights, and practical tools to enhance their impact, inspire their teams, and drive success.

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  • Create Great Teams Through 6 Team Conditions
  • Amazing games and activities that help you create team experiences and stories (as well as loads of other things)
  • 5 Mental Mistakes That Kill Your Productivity
  • The Culture Factor
  • The Secrets Behind a Great Workplace Culture - Leadership Insights
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