Am I Welcome Here? a.k.a. Being LGBTIQ+ in faith-based organisations

Am I Welcome Here? a.k.a. Being LGBTIQ+ in faith-based organisations

What does it feel like when your identity as an LGBTIQ+ person works in an organisation that may not be supportive of their identity? Let’s talk about what can happen and look at the first few steps that organisations big and small can take to improve LGBTIQ+ diversity and inclusion.

I Care, but I Don't Care

I Care, but I Don't Care

At what point do you draw the line for how much you care when you’re helping someone with a challenge they face? How personally do you take confrontation? How much should you care about their story? Here, we discuss some ideas about where to draw the line between caring and not caring.

The customer who ISN'T your customer

The customer who ISN'T your customer

Businesses today strive to succeed through provision of their products and services to their customers. Yet some businesses end up failing or going in a completely different direction because they try to satisfy every single person who walks through the door. Sometimes it helps to identify who ISN’T your customer before trying to land the sale. Here, I share a few ideas that might help with that thinking process.

Let your emotions work for you

Let your emotions work for you

Why are emotions suppressed in the workplace? Or, more importantly, why is that even necessary when there are ways to embrace and grow the workplace by becoming more emotionally literate? Here, we explore ways to access and understand emotions in the workplace and use them to build trust and psychological safety at work.

Why I write when I don’t want to

Why I write when I don’t want to

Self-reflective practices are often the key to making meaningful decisions in your business or about your next career step. Here, I provide illustration of how self-reflective practices can help through a personal account of how regular writing has allowed me align my own identity with my career, ensuring that I am consistently "where I wanted to be by now", doing "what I intended to be doing by now".

5 Phrases To Build An Inclusive Workplace

5 Phrases To Build An Inclusive Workplace

LGBTQI Inclusion and Diversity are hot topics in business today. Even more so in the current Sydney Mardi Gras season. Businesses are working towards achieving inclusion in the workplace, but many of us are challenged by establishing those first steps. What can you ask? What can you say to your teams to start the process. Here, we present 5 ideas for what to say to your teams to help build inclusion into the workplace.

On being a whole person at work

On being a whole person at work

So many of us today feel as though we've lost our concept of self at work. We are compelled to hide aspects of our identity that, in other circumstances, allow us to feel whole and flourish. So what is it that makes us often feel discontent at work, and how can this be addressed?