When Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opened, the recriminations started well before most people had seen a single frame: whether the casting honoured the poem, whether modern dialogue in American accents betrayed three thousand years of retelling or simply...
At least a dozen 2026 World Cup national coaches left their posts by the time we arrived at the much anticipated final, five weeks later. Most went within days of the result that ended their team’s tournament.[1] A month-long tournament compresses something that...
There is a particular kind of ‘theatre’ that often fuels organisational life, and the ‘difficult conversations’ workshop is one of its more regular productions. Let’s say something surfaces in a team. A falling-out between two colleagues. A dire engagement-survey...
A tense meeting. Two people who “don’t get along.” A workshop to “reset relationships” and get everyone “back on the same page.” The implicit promise is simple: deal with the difficult moment, and the team will get back to 'normal'. But what actually happens in...
Dominant models of organisational learning treat knowledge as transferable content. Information flows in one direction - from expert to novice, from presentation to participant - with the implicit assumption that understanding follows comprehension. The body, in this...
Listening is often considered a fundamental leadership skill, but the reality is more nuanced. True listening - deep, attentive, and reflexive - is not an automatic human faculty, but a capability requiring deliberate practice. Put simply, most leaders don't know how...
If you’re part of a team and find yourself uncomfortable when collaboration gets messy, you’re not alone. You might wonder whether the tension, the difficult conversations, or the moments when you fundamentally disagree with your colleagues mean something has gone...
Teams racing toward outcomes often miss what's unfolding right under their noses. While organisations pour resources into frameworks and strategic planning sessions, there's a more fundamental capability sitting in plain sight. Lets call it what it is: learning how to...
Most corporate learning programs suffer from a peculiar form of organisational amnesia. Participants emerge from training rooms brimming with insights, only to find their newfound knowledge evaporating upon contact with the unyielding complexity of daily work. This...
Organisations worldwide spend somewhere between $380-$400 billion annually on workplace training. In Australia alone, that figure reached $8 billion in 2024. Yet most corporate learning programs operate on a peculiar fantasy: that insight acquired in a training room...