Communication

On the 1st February this year my eldest child started school. One day, during the orientation week, I visited a classroom for year 5 and was struck by what was pinned on the wall. Lots of [...]

Does presenting to your peers make you nervous? Imagine presenting to 500 of them. Who have got beers in their hands, standing in the Oxford Arts Factory in Sydney. You’re on stage and you [...]

It’s likely that you spend between 10-50% of your working life in meetings. That’s up to 1,000 hours a year. And yet, it’s just as likely that you’d say the meetings you have aren’t as effective [...]

I cried at a story of a mother’s dying child. I laughed at the idea of a moth cinema. I helped break the world record for the most people playing the spoons simultaneously. Where else but TEDX [...]

There’s one management challenge I keep seeing crop up across multiple clients. It’s that, these days, management isn’t just about having direct reports; it’s about rapidly forming collaborations [...]

When I was 14, I was a skinny and shy kid, trying to find my way in the world. One day our teacher announced it was time for us to deliver our first ever presentations to the rest of the class. [...]

In the space of 13 days in June, I lined up three public speaking events which pushed me outside my comfort zone. And I learned a huge amount on the journey – about fire fighters, team [...]

The GROW method of coaching is one we at X or Y have been using since the start. Not only do we use it when coaching people ourselves, but we’ve also been lucky enough to train more than 50 [...]

Feedback is a GIFT – a tale of two halves. At the end of last year, we here at Realizer ran a leadership retreat for a group of 9 in a mid-sized technology company. During the retreat, a [...]