Rebecca’s Thoughts 

I was reviewing the top 5 issues for Directors in 2019 (with reference Institute Of Directors - 22 Jan 2019 ) and wonder how many of these will still be listed in January 2020. Here's the snapshot of the top 5. 1. Culture and Conduct - acceptance of poor conduct -...

I read an alarming statistic yesterday while researching and writing my white paper on LEADING in trauma mode. According to Stats NZ, New Zealand's population is 4.9 million. At the end of 2018 there were 425,700 people on antidepressants. That’s 1 in 8 people and...

Fear of failure has been the number one driver to success across my corporate career. In fact, when I think about it, it's been there from the age of 7 where I got second place in my class instead of first. Every year in primary school, other than one year where I was...

I have been working in leadership roles for the last 25 years as CEO, sales executive, professional executive coach, business owner and teacher and I believe there are a lot of things that no longer work. The world is broken because it is just so complicated. Today's...

Personal growth and performance go hand in hand. It’s logical to think that in order to operate at a high performance level, then also achieving high personal growth must play a role in success.

Here’s what I know. When performance starts slipping it is because something has shifted in the individual and they have moved from being in an empowered to a disempowered state. When an individual moves into a disempowered or disconnected state, they start operating with default based behaviours. The behaviours at time can be likened to playground dynamics e.g. It’s not fair, He/ She doesn’t like me, I am not good enough.

How do you get out of the hole you find yourself in? I was talking to a friend last week about how we “get resilient”. It’s easy to say be more resilient but how do we know what we need to shift and keep going when things are tough. He had had a couple of really...

I see business owners expressing disappointment with the results they are getting yet they do nothing about changing the situation. And there are always two questions I ask when addressing the issues of what is holding them back in business: 1. What do I want? When I...

 Three things that have resonated with me throughout my recent journey – guilt, control and identity. Guilt  When we are the primary earner in the family, as women, we feel guilty all the time. We can’t be there to see our children achieve milestones (school trips...

We have an expectation that our boys are stronger, can run faster and have more of an interest in war like games - fighting, guns and being well – boisterous. And how is that even when we feel like we have done our best as parents to provide a gender neutral...