Posted on October 23rd, 2012, by Karen
I finally got to do some volunteering at Northey Street City Farm (www.nscf.org.au) after a long absence due to other commitments. It was really good to get back in the garden although I was exhausted afterwards. I really need to keep up my garden fitness. I noticed lots of changes at the garden in the [...]
Tags: Change management, Leadership and gardening, Leadership and management, Leading is like gardening, Makeover, Staff turnover, Workplace gardening, www.letsgrow.com.au, www.nscf.org.au
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Posted on September 6th, 2012, by Karen
Literature is full of gardeners and gardening references. One example is “Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen. She wrote of characters who change their gardens for the sake of fashion and derided them as “nouveaux riche”. This is a term that has become associated with a class of people most of us find irritating and trivial. [...]
Tags: Change management, employee engagement, engagement, inconsistent leadership, Leadership and gardening, Leadership and management, Leadership skills, Leading is like gardening, Makeover
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Posted on January 5th, 2011, by Karen
There is something about a new year that makes you want to start with a clean slate. I’ve seen this phenomenon at work in my local area with many people spending their holidays busily tending to their gardens, mowing their lawns and generally working around their houses. This has been made slightly more difficult here [...]
Tags: Change management, Employee benefits, Employee morale, engagement, Makeover
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Posted on December 21st, 2010, by Karen
I think the general consensus at this late stage of 2010 is that many people will be glad to see the beginning of 2011! In attending a range of end of year functions with friends, colleagues and clients I am finding that this has not been a great year for many people. Perhaps we were [...]
Tags: Employee morale, Engaging conversations, Makeover, Purpose
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Posted on December 7th, 2010, by Karen
Garden makeover shows have been one of the most popular categories of the reality TV genre in the last few years. We love watching a backyard go from disastrous to dazzling in the blink of an eye and many of us wish the gardening fairies would pay a visit to our place and perform the [...]
Tags: Fierce leadership, inconsistent leadership, Jamie Durie, Makeover, Reputation, Small Business
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