The Serendis Blog
26 April, 2022
Are Your Organisational Values Hindering Inclusion?
To date, diversity has largely been pitched through the lens of fairness. Organisations have spent time and money teaching their leaders about unconscious bias, discrimination, privilege, and equity. The approach has been successful to deliver awareness and commitment to change….
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24 August, 2021
Do What You Love…But In The Right Context!
One Common Thread of Great Leadership What do Jacinda Arden and Elon Musk have in common? Not much at first glance, I will concede. What about Satya Nadella, Angela Merkel or Richard Branson? These public figures have significantly different personalities,…
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17 June, 2021
The Power of the Check-In
How does your team respond when challenging situations come their way? Do they duck to take cover, or do they step out of their comfort zone and embrace the opportunity? Significantly build your teams resilience by regularly asking two simple…
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25 May, 2021
Thriving Not Just Surviving An Ever-Changing Landscape
One of the most (over)-utilised terms of the past year has been “pivoting”. Although the term inspires eye rolls, there is little to indicate that we have seen the end of the pivot. Whether it be the continuing impact of…
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25 March, 2021
Five Steps for Leading a Hybrid Team
Australia and New Zealand are not out of the woods, or the lockdowns, by any means yet, but with vaccination pathways ahead many organisations in both countries have shifted to hybrid working conditions. Typically, this entails some team members working…
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30 October, 2020
How a Game of Bingo Delivers Competitive Advantage
Spend enough time at any A-grade business school or alongside a successful business leader and you’ll hear this phrase: “The ability to learn faster than your competitors is the only sustainable competitive advantage” Attributed to the visionary Arie de Geus,…
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3 July, 2020
Mentoring Relationships Prove Their Deepest Value During Covid19 Lockdown
Mentoring has proven to be the best possible form of leadership development in times of change and crisis and we have found a surprising and impactful way to achieve results virtually. Now we wait for the ‘big reveal’, where we…
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9 June, 2020
What Goes Up Must Come Down
Are you finding that team engagement and motivation are currently at risk? Over the last few months we have observed an incredible amount of agility and hard work from people working across various businesses and organisations. These behaviours are leaders’…
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3 April, 2020
Exercising Leadership From Home 2: Building Resilience
Following our first exercising leadership from home blog, this second blog shares an approach to help leaders strengthen resilience, so you can bring higher levels of resourcefulness to your conversations, interactions and thinking, and also bolster trust and cohesion in…
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19 March, 2020
Exercising Leadership from Home 1: Webinar Series
In these unsettling times, leaders and teams are navigating uncharted waters. For many businesses profit, revenue and cash-flow runways are evaporating and working from home is the new normal, presenting its own raft of challenges and opportunities. In crises, when we feel…
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12 March, 2020
In times of crisis, consciously focusing on Psychological Safety will pay off
It feels like we are on a cliff edge, all waiting for the next piece of breaking news about the Coronavirus. Every state and territory in Australia is now affected and the numbers are rising daily.[1] High profile politicians and…
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7 May, 2019
InclusionPulse Series: Are You Creating an Inclusive Culture at Work?
Imagine this. An acquaintance invites you to come along to a social game of your favourite team sport. We are in Australia, so let’s use footy. Australian Rules Football for all my non-Aussie connections. You like this person. You admire…
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