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# Brash Consulting | Leanne Faraday-Brash | Organisational Psychologist

Speaker, Author, Facilitator

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- [Beware Razzle-Dazzle Mumbo-Jumbo Neuro-Speak Bearing Promises of Awesome](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=435) - An email hit my mailbox this morning promoting a leadership coaching program. The content looked good. I didn't know the presenters and the flyer said nothing of their backgrounds which immediately aroused my suspicions. Firstly I wondered if I was about to click on a virus-infested spam email. Secondly I noted the course
- [Organisational Psychologists – Staying Relevant](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=449) - OK, we may be domiciled within an HR department, labelled with varied nomenclature from Personnel Services to Employee Relations, People and Culture to Organisational Capability. Each label will presumably reflect the orientations of that organisation. The titles aside, whether or not the heads of our Business Units, Divisions or Branches sit on the organisation’s senior
- [A Tale of Two Mindsets](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=459) - Last week I bumped into the mother of the young graduate who had starred in all the musical productions at my children's former school (They didn't change schools. They have all since graduated!). Now,
- [Something Magical about Majak](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=514) - When the AFL started getting serious in the late 90's about racial vilification, I was more than a tad cynical. I was sure the powers that be were authentic in wanting to create a more hospitable culture for aboriginal players (the prominent minority at the time) but I believed the zeal was probably borne out
- [Nothing to Crow About - Can a camp break a comp?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=889) - It was 1993. I was at the bank in a senior consulting role and received an interesting request for an internal facilitator. I went to see the senior client to take the brief. I remember some references made to "thirty staff", "some long-standing conflict", the need for "some cultural improvement" and the chance to "reward"
- [Pivoting, profiting and posturing – The new normal?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=859) - My work always feels privileged, but the fascination with people has gone “next lev” as my elder daughter would say during this crisis. It started with early denial as people flocked to beaches and had corona carnivales in their back yards. Then reality set in as we witnessed the toilet paper wars which sounds like
- [Brooding, Bonding and a Blessing in Disguise](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=424) - No-one in my family wanted me to go. But the Melbourne town I flew out of on Thursday was not the world we woke up to on Monday. Maybe it's because I'm an eldest child but duty and dependability are strong personal values. I was co-MC'ing the Gala Awards night at the annual Convention for
- [Wimbledon 2018 - Cause for pause to reject old paradigms and flawed thinking](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=438) - I have been fortunate enough to travel overseas for work often enough that I know my post-return jet lag profile. I tell myself "I don't do jet lag", function well all day and then lapse into unconsciousness, somewhat impractically for someone who only does around 5 hours sleep a night, at around 9pm. However this
- [Waging War...at the Water Cooler](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=437) - It has often been said that as long as two people stay in a room long enough, there will be conflict. I think it’s safe to say that we could put one person in a room and establish that they are, on a bad day, a seething mess of internal conflict! We only have
- [Julie Bishop: Gracious and 'Glass-Cliffed'?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=436) - One of my close friends is a former judge for the Children's Book Council of Australia and she once went off at me once for using the verb "incentivise". She won't be happy that I have turned the relatively new notion of "glass cliff" into an adverb. But how did Julie Bishop, a woman described
- [Fallen Heroes](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=434) - It was 2001. I’d gone out on my own a few years before but still did some work through a large training organisation. I confess to being somewhat star struck by the account executive with whom I partnered. She was stylish, confident, resilient, and successful. When I grew up I told myself - I was
- [A Long Time Coming](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=433) - There was never a question I was going to go. I felt I owed it. To the organiser who worked so hard to track us down, to plan it and to get us there. To the friends in my year who had passed away; so many of them I'd hear people tell others that my
- [Measure What You Treasure](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=432) - Over twenty years of consulting has led me to believe this: one individual can disrupt a system but a vulture culture is a system whereby disruptive, debilitating, unethical or toxic behaviour is perpetuated or enabled by the system. A counsellor friend shared a story with me a few years ago that illustrates this in a very different system
- [Shove over, Simon Sinek. It's Trolley Man](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=431) - Two household names. For different reasons. In vastly different contexts. Simon Sinek, articulate, clever, charismatic TED talker has been selling us his key premise for a while now. With over one million LinkedIn followers, people are certainly paying attention. His BIG idea? Knowing your Why. Tragedy and terror hit the streets of Melbourne again
- [A New Year's commentary on... commentators, cricket and culture](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=430) - Australia is poised to lose the Summer test series against India today but it won't be for lack of motivation or work ethic. Having watched more hours of cricket this holiday break than I care to admit, even to myself, I'm struck by the allegory of my patriotic sporting binge as it relates to teams,
- [Breaking bad: Culture change and the bad boys of tennis](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=429) - Perhaps even more newsworthy than Channel Nine’s off-centre camera angle which no-one is talking about anymore is the actual players themselves, significantly some of whom, like the weird camera angle, were knocked out early. I’ve been pondering what it must be like in that figurative and literal hothouse that is Melbourne Park and the Australian
- [Was Unconscious Bias Really that Unconscious?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=428) - I quickly took my seat in the big auditorium as the previous conference session had concluded late. Five smart, qualified researchers as indicated by their published biographies in the conference pack were sitting behind a table to present in turn on the topic of psychologically healthy workplaces. One by one they were introduced by the
- [Corporate "relevance deprivation"​ for Graeme Samuel or speaking truth to (Girl) Power?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=427) - It was always going to be risky (much like this article!). As I understood it, Graeme Samuel came out last week and said one of the potential downsides of opening the flood gates to women directors was that too few, and potentially overrated, were occupying too many top corporate board positions; spreading themselves too thinly
- [The Culture Code](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=426) - It may not always be comfortable or easy for us to find solutions to the problems of a workplace culture, but culture can be changed. Some simple cause-and-effect principles can make a profound difference. However, when we decide to preserve the status quo, we have made a default choice, and we bear no less responsibility
- [A Blueprint of Contemporary Leadership](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=425) - The best value this month has surely been my WatchAFL subscription given I have travelled overseas for a conference in Grand Final Week. I've just seen the Brownlow Medal live-streamed (in stunning picture quality) in my hotel room. I've enjoyed (and analysed) an outstanding acceptance speech (again) by Nat Fyfe after winning the Brownlow for
- [The Perfect Case Study for Transition through Change](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=443) - You don't need me to comment further on the factors - cultural ("win at all costs/god complex"), interpersonal (team cohesion/loyalty) and intrapersonal (seething rage/resentment in a natural born fighter like David Warner) that I believe catalysed the biggest scandal in Australian Sporting history since an underarm bowling action. I've done so on radio in the last week and in
- [Going for Gold: What can our Aussie Athletes teach us about leading and sustaining high performing teams?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=442) - Image from Getty Yes we’ve seen the Aussies dominate in the pool; Cate Campbell making a comeback since Rio and her sister Bronte deservingly having her time in the spotlight as she took out the 100m freestyle title. We’ve seen the Boomers swish their way to the top, and gymnasts Alex Eade and Christopher Remkes
- [CBA: The two-edged sword of comfort and cohesion](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=441) - It was 2004. I was conducting a workshop with the top 200 Australia managers for a global sporting brand. I’d done my homework. I‘d interviewed suppliers, retailers, consumers. There was a need for them to lift their game. Retailers were angry about the supply chain and unreliable and inaccurate orders. Suppliers felt bullied. Consumers loved
- [The Even Darker Side of Sexual Harassment](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=440) - It was 1993. I returned from maternity leave to my big bank employer and walked into a firestorm. The bank was facing the single biggest case of gender discrimination in this country until the David Jones saga would eclipse it almost 20 years later. The Executive finally realised we needed to change the culture of
- [Damned If You Do and Slammed if you Won't](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=439) - On my morning jog yesterday, I listened to a heartbreaking This American Life podcast entitled Damned if you Do. It poignantly portrayed the story of a Somalian refugee interned in Dadaab, Kenya who was ultimately compelled to return to war-torn Somalia because the only way to pay the debt to the store owner accumulated trying to feed
- [No Room to Field Bad Behaviour](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=444) - This week we've seen it plastered across headline after headline. We've read the stories about Darren Lehmann claiming he had no idea what was going on and whilst I have to say I believe him (based primarily on his unprintable expletive-laden enquiry of Peter Handscomb when he saw the disturbing vision of Cam Bancroft) ,
- [Storytelling as an Influence Strategy](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=445) - In the space of a work week we may find ourselves having to shift from trainer, to facilitator to keynoter to consultant; making allowance for varying paradigms of power, presence and expertise and perpetually judged by how well we do that. Yet with the challenge, the responsibility, the skills, patience, energy and empathy required comes
- [Generations or Generalisations?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=446) - I'd like to think I know something about so-called Millennials. I have four of them at home. I'd like to think I know something about Baby Boomers. Many of my clients are boomers. As for me, I like to think of myself as a Gen X trapped in a baby boomer body but that's for
- [A Reminder that Black and White aren't the Only Colours](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=447) - Photo by Getty I must admit I did a double take when I learnt the news. A part of me groaned inwardly. Was it a smart decision? Do we need the grief? Will people see the ‘frame’ or just the convenient canvas? I could hear the trashy (but clever) memes. And I could see the pain
- [When looking on the bright side ain't so bright](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=448) - There is no doubt we all can be placed on a continuum of optimistic to pessimistic. That is not to say we will have the same predictable reaction to everything, but we may tend to lean one way, to the middle or to the other. Some people have a voracious change appetite that manifests as
- [Struggling with Juggling](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=450) - Is there any more that could be written on work/life balance that hasn’t already been said? Probably not a lot and yet some of us need to hear things 9 times (according to McKinsey disciples) for things to sink in. At worst the whole balancing act thing is just that – an act. We may
- [Time to take bad behaviour off the menu](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=451) - I was fascinated to read the buzz last week surrounding the finalists for the Josephine Pignolet Young Australian Chef of the Year. Of course it registered that nine nominees were male and one female but if that's merit-based selection at work and not unconscious bias, then there's nothing more to say except that I believe
- [Psychometric Testing: Friend or Foe?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=452) - I’ve seen it before. It’s amazing. You can’t believe how badly you got it wrong. And then you go back to the psychometric test results in the personnel file and the concerns that were identified or the markers that should have given you ‘cause for pause’ and you think, "Why, oh why, did we hire
- [Feeling Better by Thinking Straighter](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=453) - Around 10 years ago if you went to a café you had a choice between a Nescafé Blend 43 and a cup of Lipton's tea. These days we are spoilt for choice. First we have to choose if we want a tea or a coffee...if it’s a tea is it black or white or a
- [The times they are a callin - For courage and empathy](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=454) - Down here in sunny Melbourne it's easy to forget the turmoil happening right now in Queensland and New South Wales in the wake of treacherous Cyclone Debbie; especially if like me, you limit the amount of news and current affairs you will expose yourself to on any given day. I refuse to go into the
- [The key to HR Relevance:  Getting Feedback "Fat Controller style"](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=455) - If there is one thing not lost on my kids it's that they are never allowed to give me the Fat Controller compliment - at least not publicly. When Thomas the Tank did something praiseworthy, The Fat Controller (his name, not my description) could give the beaming young engine the ultimate compliment which was: "Thomas, you're a
- [The Obamas and why they are the exception that must become the rule](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=456) - As I contemplated the final weeks of the Obama White House and am now more than a little Trumped out, I can’t help but think about the recently departed power couple as quintessential outliers. Malcolm Gladwell certainly doesn’t need any further publicity from me for one of his books of the same title. And are
- [Ode to the Oscars: The agonising dilemma of merit and morality](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=457) - It would be a rare thing indeed for me to be immersing myself in Hollywood pop culture, glitz and glamour on a work day or truthfully, any day really. But this is no ordinary day. It’s the Oscar’s and it’s no ordinary Oscar’s day. The 6,687 voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
- [A Different way to be Smart](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=458) - I shouldn't name drop. But think: Roger Federer. The Australian Open. Practice partner. Tennis ball. Fractured foot. They were all involved. Just not the way you might imagine. It was a year ago. Roger was warming up. At the Australian Open. He was on the television screen at the time. I stepped out into my back garden...onto
- [A Convenient "Truth" - Our capacity for big (sometimes bad) conclusions on scant if any evidence](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=460) - Nov 2016 There was a moment on Friday afternoon of sheer panic for me. I had felt compelled to check my Inbox one more time before I took Friday night off to spend with family. And there was the news bulletin and those words that leapt off the page.... possible explosion... fire... local suburban... Commonwealth
- [Coaching, coaxing or counselling?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=461) - Kind of freaky but three clients in the space of a fortnight asked me if I’d seen an old Harvard Business Review article by Steven Berglas on “The Very Real Dangers of Executive Coaching (June 2002).” One client was particularly interested in my reaction to the article’s contention that coaching services provided by people who were
- [Change Management "Ipanema" Style](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=462) - Ten years ago there were very few genuine change manager or culture transformation roles. Change was something you did to enterprise architecture, software and processes. We all now know that was only ever half the story at best. It's the 2016 Olympics and Rio de Janeiro has been "transformed"; yet not without its problems and
- [Mr Rudd clearly very UN-happy but was he wronged?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=463) - I understand, Mr. Rudd. I really do. You wanted the job, possibly even more than you ever wanted the prime ministership (We're just a small island in Asia after all). You hoped for endorsement from the government of the day. You needed it to have any chance of being appointed to the top job at
- [The Latest Challenger Disaster: When we repeatedly fail to challenge (c)overt bias](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=464) - “You’re obviously very technical”, said Rob. “Thank you. But why do you say that?” I asked with some degree of (well, actually considerable) surprise in my voice. “Well, you just seem to know your way around technology” said the editor of my new speaker reel. Now, I wrestled years ago with Sony Vegas ahead of
- [Election Nightmares: When both sides fail to clear the bar](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=465) - Those who will take up broadsheet and digital column inches analysing voter sentiment today in terms of beliefs, quite frankly, will be missing the mark. The young woman who I saw run 200 metres to catch her train and gave up with 30 metres to go didn't change her beliefs when she stopped. She'd reached
- [Maria 'Shriekapova' shirks the truth of the real issue here](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=466) - Maria Sharapova says she is relieved she was not found to have intentionally deceived anyone even though she suppressed her use of Meldonium from people close to her. No, it wasn't a banned substance until this year but the experts say it gives someone a physiological edge - therefore it was performance-enhancing. The issues seem
- [Leicester the losers - but not any more](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=467) - I can hear the comments now. You couldn't write a script better than this one. The most extraordinary comeback in the history of sport. Ever. They've worked out the odds. 1000 times less likely than Essendon winning this year's flag. How does an English premiership team facing relegation at the end of 2015 get up the
- [Harry Potter and the Dark Art of Shooting the Messenger](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=468) - It was certainly an interesting way to begin my journey to Gladwell's 10,000 hours to become an expert. What did the local Community Centre have budget for way back then for me as a mother of a sleepy and somewhat boring but delicious baby? An alcohol education program for convicted drink drivers! Thus began my journey into
- [60 minutes of fame and much longer misfortune](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=469) - The drama unfolding in Beirut with a Channel Nine crew formally charged on kidnapping, not respecting local authority and causing harm is sobering, confronting and potentially a life changing lesson for anyone affected by the alleged kidnapping gone horribly wrong.Snide comments were made by other media outlets in the first few hours after the story
- [Surprising Nobility in Restricted Mobility](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=470) - Everyone wants to know how it happened. With not a shadow of a lie, I tell them. Think Roger Federer. Australian Open. Tennis ball. Fractured foot. They were all involved. Just not the way you might imagine.Roger was warming up. It was the Australian Open. He was on the television screen at the time. I stepped out into
- [Much Ado About Nothing (according to the offensive)](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=471) - In no particular order but highly interchangeable:"It's a total overreaction.""It's political correctness gone mad!""I was quoted out of context.""It was just one of those things. (You know what) happens." And my personal paraphrased favourite by none other than Barnaby Joyce, future leader of the National Party is that "it would be a shame if we
- [Credlin's Complaints Just Aren't Credible](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=472) - I had the most enjoyable lunch at my brother and sister in law's home on Saturday. Feisty discussion and debate over great food and laughter. My nephew was (suitably!) intrigued by my consulting in what I call "workplace justice". Lots of closed questions like:"So, Aunty Lee, do you believe there should be quotas for women
- [Be the Change You Want to See In the World](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=473) - My younger daughter is on a gap year away. Next week she begins a preparatory seminar for a trip to the Nazi camps in German occupied Poland. Some may think the trip ghoulish. But the Holocaust is a big part of her heritage. Her late paternal grandparents were survivors. She needs to know and wants
- [The profound perils of unchecked rage](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=474) - There have been too many tragedies that have rocked us to our foundations lately. There are plenty we don't know about or think about. Like every death on the road to which we are habituated unless we knew those that died. There are others the media won't allow us to ignore. Like the death of young
- [Are you really successful if you haven't planned for succession?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=475) - It was novel in football when Eddie McGuire announced Collingwood was establishing a succession plan to Mick Malthouse as coach. The emerging leader was clearly identified and so was the timeline. I believe the same move was a little less explicit a few months ago when Kevin Sheedy after his stint at GWS was named Essendon
- [In denial and in the doldrums - the PM's coming last](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=476) - No, you won't get me to declare my political leanings because it is neither relevant to this discussion nor appropriate. However there are many editorials attempting to dissect the goings on in Canberra as we blog; filling column inches trying to make sense of the disharmony between Cabinet and back benchers on the actions and
- [A Tale of Two Mindsets](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=477) - Well, there went my last excuse for pizza in 2014. My five week stint presenting in communication and change leadership for some of the best and brightest at Monash University Engineering has wrapped up for another year. I think about this bright hard working group of young people making the best of their talents and
- [Stand up Australia. Be proud (It's not what you think!)](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=478) - As the sun sets on Tollcross Swimming Centre we can learn some valuable lessons from the Aussie swim team in Glasgow and how the team has transformed its culture to produce the most wonderful esprit de corps and exemplify the best flow-on effect of shared goals, great strategy and sublime teamwork- outstanding results. If we think back
- [Bystander apathy in all its forms](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=479) - Working extensively as I do in the area of equal opportunity, harassment, sexual harassment and bullying, sadly not a lot surprises me anymore. I've seen it in the board room and the boiler room. But I was filled with compassion and admiration for Jane Marwick this week when I read her gutsy piece in which she
- [Attitude and avocado for breakfast](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=480) - So there I was, feeling like a hero not a zero. My 20 year old graciously agreed I could drive him to soccer this morning. It's premier league. The standard is high. It's therefore great viewing. Now I think it's great he invites me. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact hat he's
- [You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=481) - A prominent Melbourne sports journalist made a pronouncement a few weeks ago on radio. He said he could virtually guarantee that either suspended Essendon senior coach James Hird, or CEO of the AFL Andrew Demetriou would not still be in their roles by the end of the year. Well the journo proved to be a prophet
- [Nostalgia - The Enemy of Change](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=482) - I have a confession to make. I was one of those who tuned in to the last fifteen minutes of a breakfast radio show that had graced our airwaves for 10 years on Friday morning. Why? Part curiosity, part nostalgia. In the lead up during the week, the media promised a ratings bonanza. There were outpourings
- [NSW Flames and Blame Games](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=483) - Our thoughts and prayers are still with the families and fire fighters in the New South Wales Blue Mountains and the uncertainty and fear that hovers along with the acrid black smoke. The Australian Army did what I believe it had to do this week and came out and expressed profound regret about the explosives drill
- [The Eurythmics Strategy - Should sisters be doing it for themselves?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=484) - I was totally inspired at a recent conference to see the extraordinary creativity of young Australians using YouTube and home movie making to tackle bullying at school. The major thrust of their strategy was sending the message that bullying is uncool and if you can get the bystander to confront the bully, the target feels supported
- [A Special Kind of Magic](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=485) - I had cause to reflect this week on a magical time in my working life with the tragic passing of my old boss at ANZ Bank. I witnessed the outpouring of grief and warm memories from my old colleagues and the way in which people have kept in touch over two decades; looking forward to
- [Bully Busting and Bystander Apathy](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=486) - I was privileged to attend and present at the inaugural No2Bullying conference last week on the Gold Coast. It was fabulous to hear so many excellent speakers on the topic of bullying yet confronting to hear so many vivid tales of personal and professional devastation from bullying at work, schoolyard bullying and cyber bullying. Only
- [Does fortune favour the working father?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=487) - Our mental model of "conflict" often compels us to gravitate towards that tricky stuff that occurs between two individuals. However, just as stressful and mentally tough can be the goal conflict or values conflict we experience when two or more of the big priorities we have in life are at odds (or at war!) with each
- [It's just not cricket - or is it?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=488) - The decision by the Australian captain and coach to stand down 4 players ahead of the test against India today has attracted a furore. Setting the tone for what's acceptable and what's not is critical to establishing good cultural norms. A robust feedback culture, respect for leadership and a commitment to excellence is essential in elite sport
- [A Tale of Two Cycles](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=489) - When studying the MRI results after 10 years of jogging, I made the decision to reinvent myself as a cyclist. I figured all I needed was a beautiful road bike until someone told me it might help me maintain my fitness if I rode it now and then. I've been doing so for a few
- [Lance Armstrong - competitive cyclist, cancer survivor, con man, confessor](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=490) - Well, if you’re like me, you’ve watched both parts of the Lance Armstrong special (OK, I admit it, a couple of times each). I’ve met people like him, a small number and mostly in corporate; fiercely competitive, astronomically high on self-belief, selfish and self-absorbed in their focus about what needs to happen to ensure their
- [When Christmas is More "PC" than it is Merry](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=491) - They seem to be annual these days. The two types of Christmas stories that strike fear and dread; the one about the Scrooge boss who gave staff a $10 Christmas gift voucher to a shop that closed down in September and the one about the humbug council that won't put up "Merry Christmas" banners for
- [Uncomfortable Parallels and the Need for Courageous Leadership](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=492) - In the 20 years I've consulted I have seen how people can condone, incentivise, deny, justify and enable bad behaviour from petty theft and time theft to racial discrimination and sexual harassment. Not all are first degree perpetrators. But those who stand by and do nothing because the person doing the crime makes the company lots
- [iClouding the Issues - Performance vs. Perception](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=493) - I've always been a fast reader. I've never before sustained a back injury that meant I had to lie in bed for two consecutive days. I hope I won't again. But last weekend I took what advantage I could from the enforced rest and pain meds and read two biographies - Walter Isaacson’s tome about the
- [Balancing Worker Privacy with Worker Productivity](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=494) - An article in yesterday's Age reported concerns that employers are becoming more intrusive in workers' medical assessments. One specific allegation was that some employers are insisting on accompanying workers on visits to doctors. This was held by the ACTU to be both a potential breach of privacy and unethical behaviour, particularly in light of reports
- [We Need Common Sense to be Common in our Industrial Courts](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=495) - Two significant industrial cases have been decided in the past few weeks that should give employers heart and reassure workers that sanity can prevail in our IR jurisdictions. The High Court ruled this week that Bendigo TAFE was not in breach of the Fair Work Act 2009 (the Act) when it took decisive action against
- [Lance Armstrong - villain or victimised victor?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=496) - The breaking news is that Lance Armstrong has elected not to appeal a decision by the US Anti-Doping Agency that found him guilty of allegations of improper use of performance enhancing drugs. Late yesterday, he was effectively stripped of his 7 Tour de France titles. It's sad but true that the higher the stakes we play for (and/or the
- [Getting our Priorities Right](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=497) - The post mortems have begun. One paper calculated the investment cost per gold medal. Another ranked us on gold medals per capita. Another ranked on medals of any colour relative to previous Olympics decrying our torrid decline since Sydney 2000.I love my sport. My Twitter handle includes the phrase "sport fanatic". I am the best
- [Positioning for Success](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=498) - I was asked to present last night to a professional body on establishing and building a practice or workplace profile (presumably a good one!). It was great to have the opportunity to reflect and distil those things that I think contribute to success in our respective fields. It occurred to me, especially in the wake
- [No I in T.E.A.M.](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=499) - Watching Le Tour late last night I was staggered by the willingness of Chris Froome, one of the Sky team members and current race leader Bradley Wiggins' team mate, to forfeit a certain opportunity to win Stage 17. For those of us who aren't Tour de France experts, Froome would, according to the 'voice of cycling'
- [Narky or nirvana -your choice!](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=500) - It's no secret I love my sport and while there's lots more productive to do than watch the idiot box, in a week with Wimbledon, le Tour de France and my beloved footy, life's pretty good. So there I was last night kicking back late to watch the tennis. Remote control in hand, browsing through
- [Etiquette and Style Classes for Raunchy Work Dress Code - Oh Puh-Lease!!](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=501) - I read an article by Sarah Whyte in The Age today regarding dress code for working women and how some of the high profile accounting and legal firms are running courses on dress style and etiquette for some of their (mostly young) staff. It would appear the employers are quite dismayed at some of the
- [Seriously Negative Energy at EnergyWatch](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=502) - We have probably all seen or heard about the unfortunate rants by Ben Polis, disgraced (now former) CEO of EnergyWatch who’s confessed racist vitriol on Facebook cost his company its sponsorship deals with Melbourne Football Club and Melbourne Victory. Interesting about this scandal connected with sport is that the sponsor created the furore, not the
- [There must be a collective conscience about Kony](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=503) - Unless you've been marooned on a desert island you will have heard about the extraordinary documentary made by the film maker Jason Russell and the Invisible Children movement about the ruthless warlord Joseph Kony in Uganda. In a half hour documentary on YouTube, Kony is accused of capturing and brainwashing thousands of child soldiers, many of
- [Losing the plot by victimising the victim](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=504) - Very serious allegations against a Flight Centre Store Manager in today's Age. The manager is alleged to have engaged in "relentless" mistreatment of an employee and then reportedly victimised the top performing assistant manager for 'calling' such behaviour. Executive teams and HR Departments never look for such situations to deal with but deal with them
- [Slamming Tennis Prize Money and other EEO Matters](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=505) - I admit it. I'm ambivalent. In the wake of a history-making men's final of the Australian Open the debate over prize money predictably reared its head again yesterday in the media. The breakdown in the Herald Sun of how much the women's and men's winner won for each minute on court was absurd when you
- [](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=506) - Perhaps not coincidentally, I have been doing a lot of EEO training in the past few weeks. In some cases, clients and I did this work one or two years ago and they wanted an organisation-wide refresher. In other cases, they want to promote awareness in the wake of recent events or in anticipation of
- [When the Hunt Becomes the Hunted](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=507) - Many people would have heard about the furore created when the former girlfriend of Geelong footballer Josh Hunt 'flamed' him this week in an email that subsequently went around the country. Notwithstanding my passion for the game itself, the ins and outs of footballer relationships don't interest me all that much. However there are parallels
- [The Race that Stops (some of) a Nation](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=508) - Many of us saw the business survey last week that said Aussies work long hours to the detriment of work-life balance, quality of relationships and health, yet productivity is low. We are a bunch of 'hard- working' (read as 'long working') time wasters. Think of all the meetings we attend that people freely admit produce poor
- [Employers and Unions- Neither has exclusivity on ethical behaviour](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=509) - The blogosphere is pulsating with commentary about the Health Services Union and whether or not Federal MP Craig Thomson has or hasn't done anything wrong. Workers have told me today how they feel about big business and the growing divide between those who have billions and those who belong to the poor working class or
- [Different events, same feelings](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=510) - On the anniversary of 9/11 there have been lots of experts and lay people talking poignantly about the painful and traumatic memory of past events. It is well known in the profession of psychology how hard it is for those who've suffered acute loss around the time of anniversaries and big occasions. At a time when I
- [Child sexploitation, maybe. Media misconduct, that's a definite!](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=511) - I've raised four of them but I've not worked with kids except a short stint teaching Life Skills and I'm still recovering. I was disturbed to read about the Northcote Beauty Pageant and the fascination many children had, not just for the pageant, but for their North American six year old "idol", Eden Wood. Her mother
- [Common Sense not Common and Ethics not Easy](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=512) - Don't be deceived. It's not about football and certainly not about a footballer with a gambling problem. It's about conflict of interests, insider trading, judicious decision making, ethical behaviour, organisational culture and consequences. The Heath Shaw betting scandal incident is as relevant to corporate Australia as an annual report. Sport is not immune to employee
- [Slutwalk does not equal slack](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=513) - If only big corporates could master the clarity of message that the Sydney 'slut walkers' were able to achieve yesterday. Whether the women themselves were dressed demurely, provocatively or not dressed much at all, their message was the same. Hemlines are not guidelines and the difference between sex and rape is consent; which should not
- [Fair Work fine for texting a termination sends a clear message](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=515) - Fair Work Australia Commissioner Cambridge has ruled that a boutique owner who texted a "Don't Come Monday" message to a two-year employee behaved in a "pretty appalling" way and that her termination via SMS was deemed unfair. The boutique owner was fined almost $10,000 in back pay. The Fair Work Australia ruling found that there
- [](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=516) - Sexual harassment has been very prominent in the media this past year notwithstanding increased public, media and corporate focus on bullying. From time to time I am struck by the narrow stereotypes some people hold about sexual harassment presuming it to be about men 'hitting on' women at work. Both genders regrettably harass both genders.
- [No goal, no golf and no glory](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=517) - Well, it nearly didn't happen. If we hadn't gone away for the weekend with self confessed golf tragics who got up at 5am to watch the US Masters I wouldn't have 'got it'. While I have often joked about my love of elite sport as the 'best athlete never to play the game', I didn't
- [Ethics vs. Morality - Not the Same Thing But They Both Matter](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=518) - Well, it seems to me the lunatics have officially taken over the asylum! A young woman, possibly unwell, admitted to wanting to bring the St Kilda Football Club undone by improperly obtaining photos that should never have been taken by a fellow player and kept in the first place. The high profile player manager paid to protect
- [Backbiting and bundled out (unlawfully!)](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=519) - The media was in a frenzy today about a young childcare worker who was dismissed last year for breaching the organisational policy on 'backbiting'. Fair Work Australia found she had been unfairly dismissed and today awarded her just under $10K in damages. You can't outlaw human nature but you can make it clear to people
- [Even though we lost, we won.](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=520) - I have to admit that seeing Australia go down to Japan this week in the dying minutes of the final of the Asian Cup was gut wrenching. As a romantic, a fiercely patriotic Aussie and a football fan - I'm the best athlete never to play the game - I was convinced we would pull
- [Perception is 9/10ths of the law](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=521) - Fundamentally I think we want to believe in government and that its highest officers govern with integrity and transparency. And yes, at times we can be disappointed. The recent furore involving the Directorate of Public Prosecutions is a timely reminder about the demanding importance of doing and appearing to do the right thing, in every
- [never too young to be wise](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=522) - I have had the extraordinary pleasure and privilege of presenting over the past three years to an amazing cohort of engineering students at Monash University in communication skills and change management. I have reminded them at times that our mindsets are closer than they might first imagine as I am a Gen X trapped in
- [Prime Time Masterchef and Prime (Time) Ministers](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=523) - Yes, I confess to watching both the Masterchef Finale and the Gillard/Abbott debate Sunday night a week ago. If I hadn't I would have gone to bed feeling like a complete ignoramus with nothing to discuss with colleagues and clients the next day. Masterchef is truly an undeniable phenomenon and it has inspired one of my
- [What do we make of two women in a week?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=524) - When he was still host, Eddie McGuire would walk on set at the beginning of Thursday night’s Footy Show, rub his hands together and pronounce that it had been a “big week in Football”. By all accounts, Nick Riewoldt’s hamstring is ahead of schedule but in other breaking news two Australian women, one junior marketer
- [Coffee, conflict and coaching - any place any time!](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=525) - There I was minding my own business in the Etihad Stadium coffee queue. Don't know if Monday night football will ever be institutionalised but over 42,000 people decided to give it a try. The queue was quite long but my mum is worth it so there I waited towards the latter stages of half time
- [Trainwrecks and Bingles - but Resilient Clarke Bats On](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=526) - There is nothing I need or wish to do to contribute to the media circus surrounding the (former) relationship of Michael Clarke and Lara Bingle except to say that Michael Clarke is a fascinating case study in resilience or if you prefer the more colloquial, "mental toughness". From what we can gather, he came to
- [Look in the mirror - what do we see?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=527) - I attended a professional development function last week and found myself surrounded by fellow management consultants, training professionals, coaches and psychologists. There was an almost audible groan in the room as we were informed that each of us would have up to one minute to introduce ourselves to the others in the room. My quick
- [Macquarie Dave - bad timing or bad behaving?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=528) - Except that we happened to see it and Macquarie was humiliated by it, Dave hurt no-one. So what is really so terrible you ask? Dave was in clear breach of company policy. It was not work related, it was clearly of a sexual nature, it had the capacity to offend, humiliate and intimidate. What were
- [Monday-itis - all year long](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=529) - In speaking with clients, friends and acquaintances toward the end of the holiday season, it became apparent just how many of them articulated feelings of misgiving about returning to work after the break. What was so interesting about this was that each of them has always appeared 100% committed to their work and clients and
- [Don't Worry be Happy](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=530) - Well I have decreed to myself that I don't do jetlag. I've decided its mind over matter and I do mind any possibility of time zone fatigue limiting my ability to work effectively with us because the work we do together matters. The trip to the US was great at many levels. I enjoyed the
- [](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=531) - I have always felt it is a privilege to facilitate conversations with adults by cultivating a safe open learning space. While I studied long and hard to be a psychologist, I am also proud to be an educator/trainer. A participant on an interpersonal skills program this week approached me at the end of the course and thanked
- [Now to Lead When the Honeymoon's Over](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=532) - Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States amid much emotion hope and optimism. If one compares his famous acceptance speech on Election Day with the speech he made on Inauguration Day, the contrast is striking and relevant to all of us who lead change. His “Yes We Can” campaign stirred, inspired and
- [Demanding justice or playing the system?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=533) - A young muslim woman in the UK has just been awarded $6000 for being told she had to wear a figure hugging dress to wait in an English bar over summer when the men were not asked to change their uniforms for summer and were able to dress modestly in dark clothes. It was determined
- [People with a Profile - Do we expect too much?](https://brashconsulting.com.au/?p=534) - Rashida Dati is the first senior government official appointed in France of North African descent. Dati has attracted considerable attention having just returned to work as French Justice Minister only 5 days after giving birth to her child and being openly single. Feminists in France have slammed her as a poor role model whom they

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