Harness the power of storytelling
It was June 2001. I was 26 years old, ready to deliver a well-rehearsed and over-prepared presentation to approximately 100 […]
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Powerful Messaging – Delivering Presentations That Stick
The portable skills across all platforms Whether the purpose of your presentation is to persuade, connect, inform or simply to […]
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Personal Productivity – Fanatic Discipline & the 20-Mile March
Question: What do productive leaders, teams and organisations all share in common? Answer: A fanatical discipline to methodically, carefully and consistently sticking […]
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Leading Remote Teams – Managing Conflict with Remote Employees
Task-related or interpersonal conflict is tricky when you work alongside someone. It’s 10 times more complex when that conflict is […]
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Leading Remote Teams – The Psychological Needs of Remote Employees
This blog, the second in our series on this topic, takes a unique look at remote leadership from the perspective […]
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Personal Productivity – The Habits of Highly Productive People
In a recent blog on Personal Productivity, titled, ‘Mindset Over Matter’, we highlighted the power of mindset over the more […]
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Leading Remote Teams – Modern Day Challenges for Individuals, Leaders & Organisations
A long time ago, before the days of videoconferencing, the Internet and email, teams generally needed to be in the […]
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Personal Productivity – Mindset over Matter
Over the past 30 years, the narrative on time management has stayed largely the same despite advances in the way […]
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Mastery & Motivation – Creating Champions & Cultural Change
Let’s see a show of (mental) hands on this one. Hands up if you’re challenged to find the time to […]
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Empowering Others – The Power of Trust & Autonomy
“The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what they want done […]
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Creating Meaningful Work – The DNA of How to Inspire People in the Workplace
In 2003 researcher and professor Wayne Cascio wrote the article “Changes in Workers, Work and Organisations”, where he concluded that […]
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Leadership Purpose – Why standing for something means everything
As a leader, have you ever found yourself going through the motions? Each day resembling something similar to the day […]
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MFL’s Empowering & Inspiring Framework
Empowering and Inspiring our People Leading people is exhilarating, rewarding and a reason to get out of bed every morning […]
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Questions For You & Your Teams Wellbeing
Wellbeing at Work is one of our most personal and introspective workforce capabilities. It focuses on our ability to manage […]
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Employee Wellbeing & Employee Engagement Are Not The Same Thing
In recent months, we’ve been talking to HR teams about all things employee wellbeing and we’ve discovered one interesting trend. […]
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A Model for Wellbeing at Work
The general health and wellbeing of employees in the workplace has never been more in the spotlight than it is […]
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Monitoring & Measuring Change
Let’s imagine you have implemented a major change in your department or across the organisation. Before launching the change, you […]
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Creating Enduring Transformational Change
Every now and then, it’s important to look outside our own industry for inspiration and best practice. We have chosen […]
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Head, Heart & Hands Framework
The Head, Heart and Hands framework originates from the work of Best Buy, one of the worlds biggest and best […]
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The 3Cs of Change Leadership
Whether you’re executing a large organisational change or simply asking your team to ‘switch gears’, the fundamental capabilities or competencies […]
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Managing Group Performance
One of the things that often separates OK leaders from good leaders is that good leaders are able to look […]
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Reflective Coaching to Lead Change
Have you ever worked in a team that was in turmoil, characterised by a downward spiral with worsening results, top […]
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Seeking Feedback
Do you mean there’s an alternative to a 360-diagnostic? In years of administering 360 leadership diagnostic instruments at Maura Fay […]
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Coaching For Greatness
9 Strategic Tips To Elevate Performance “Greatness” in organisations is defined by Jim Collins as three things: (1) superior financial […]
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Performance Feedback and Millennials
Free food and beanbags just won’t cut it Millennials now make up the largest number of employees in the workplace […]
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Leadership Presence
There’s so much discussion of leadership and sometimes defining what it actually means is kind of like catching smoke. Does […]
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The High Performance Culture Turnaround
Lessons from the 2017 Richmond AFL Football Club Most of Australia is in a football frenzy right now with the […]
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EQualise your IQ
We interviewed Michael Tonkin, General Manager of Maura Fay Learning, about the role of EQ in achieving business outcomes. His […]
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The Emotional Intelligence Playlist
There’s quite a buzz around the office at MFL about Emotional Intelligence and Leadership; not surprising considering our upcoming breakfast […]
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How to be seen as a Trusted Advisor
The term trusted advisor isn’t new, it’s become the default term that many business development professionals aspire too. How do […]
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THE GREAT MFL DEBATE – PART 2: Manager or BFF?
This is part two of a two part series. We recommend that you read Part one first. Manager or BFF? Continuing […]
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The GREAT MFL DEBATE – Part 1: A Brief History of Motivation
This is part one of a two part series. You can find part two here. I’ve been musing on how […]
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Benefits of having effective communication skills
“Communication is the most important skill any leader can possess.” So says billionaire Richard Branson, who believes that communication is the […]
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What is effective coaching?
The term coaching is very popular in management and leadership conversations, and is used widely for a variety of meanings. […]
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Twenty top tips to present like a gold-medal winning athlete
We can draw a lot of parallels between Olympic sports and public speaking. Getting up to deliver a presentation can feel […]
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Trust – Easy to Say, Hard to Do
The question of what makes a great leader is one that has challenged smart minds and sold many great books […]
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Communication – the lifeblood of a project
Communication is the lifeblood of any project: this knowledge area underpins competency in all others. Effective communication is more than […]
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The winning triad to be an influential speaker
If you’ve ever watched Barack Obama’s Presidential Acceptance Speech of November 2008, you’ll understand how the power of emotions, combined […]
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The value of feedback and coaching conversations
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said: “I think it’s important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about […]
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The role of a good facilitator
Have you ever been to the symphony or watched a snippet of an orchestra playing on TV? Can you visualise […]
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The ABC of resilience and learned optimism
Why is it that when different people are faced with exactly the same circumstances some thrive, some coast, and some […]
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The psychology of leading change
So much of our lives is the product of habit. No wonder we don’t easily welcome change. How can we, […]
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How to measure ROI of a training program
When I think about measuring Return on Investment (ROI) of a training program, my brain lodges a protest. I agree […]
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How to build a positive personal brand
If someone was to ask you to use three words to describe yourself, what would those words be? And if […]
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Five ways to use a customer-service mindset to enhance your work relationships
Customer service is a well-known and widely-trained skill, and a crucial competency for successfully meeting the needs and expectations of […]
Viewpoint: Client Engagement