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DIGEST | The Weekly Newsletter
Friday 16th October 2020

Hello and welcome to DIGEST your regular career, leadership, entrepreneur and innovation update.

Last week we launched a very special podcast Episode 5 of the iTHINK - a podcast all about leadership - an interview with Vicki Townsley - discussing leadership during the pandemic.

This has been widely described our best episode yet, so we do hope you will check it out.

The long read this week is on not letting the pandemic become a gender disaster, the trend already established with the number of women losing their jobs due to the pandemic at a rate of four times that of men.

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Have a great week and stay safe

Crispin

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LEADERSHIP

14 October 2020

The Traits of Great Leaders

What makes a truly great leader? We all deal with range of different leaders every day in different parts of our lives but how many of them really inspire you – what are the traits of truly great leaders? Howard M. Shore identifies five character traits of great leaders. Integrity Having integrity means that have […]

14 October 2020

Keeping Your Team Motivated

Keeping your team motivated during the pandemic is a widely recognised challenge. A recent survey of 600 CEOs by HBS asked what was keeping them up at night. The answers varied slightly but the common theme was motivation. “Keeping morale and motivation up amongst employees while they are dealing with the stress of COVID-19 as […]

13 October 2020

Emotional Intelligence Starts With Your Welcome.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to understand and use your own empathy and emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate efficiently and empathise with others to over come challenges and defuse conflict. Conversations always start out with small talk, and so often we revert back to a basic question something like “Hi, how are […]

CAREER

14 October 2020

The Art of Asking Powerful Questions

The art of asking inquiring, challenging, powerful questions is one of the most fundamental differentiators of leadership. They challenge our basic assumptions and create awareness of patterns and connections. Powerful questions explore intentions, values, convictions, hopes, ambitions and possibilities. The quality of the questions you ask not only demonstrates an openness and curiosity for learning, […]

13 October 2020

Don't Let the Pandemic Become a Gender Disaster

When organisations make large cost cutting initiatives traditionally the number of women being reduced is significantly higher than the number of men. The Australian Bureau of Statistics identified that women in Victoria lost jobs at four times the rate of men in July. If this proportion of job loss continues to skew against women we […]

13 October 2020

Employer values are they aligned to yours?

Employer Values – When you look for the right job match you often consider the culture fit, but what about the value fit? An emerging term for recruitment organisations is Employee Value Proposition which captures more fully that total fit between what you stand for and what the organisation represents. Culture determines how work gets […]

ENTREPRENEUR (& STARTUP)

8 October 2020

StartUp Survival

The best opportunity for your startup survival in a recession and pandemic is to avoid making rash decisions. This article provides some tactics and strategies to manage during these difficult times Minimise There is every chance that when the pandemic hit your revenues reduced substantially. Which may well have sent you looking for funding sources […]

INNOVATION

Cultural Innovation

13 October 2020

Cultural Innovation is not just about building a better mousetrap, rather it is driven by deeply connecting customers with a brands ideology, which in turn has transformed the the value proposition and reinvented the category. Why is innovation so hard? Why do companies who have have incredibly talented teams struggle to innovate and create a […]

Identity Blocks Innovation

8 October 2020

Innovation is built using well proven methodologies, however it requires more than an effective process to motivate and inspire the imagination of an innovation team. The right leadership is central to any innovation teams success and if not managed carefully leader and team identity blocks innovation. People and particularly leadership are a very important part […]

EVENT DIRECTORY

The event directory is being updated all the time, if you have an event you would like to see on the calendar please send me an email with the details.

DISTRACTION

Basketball superstar Stephen Curry interviews Bill Gates in a mock job interview

This man bought a ghost town and spent the last 6 months living there

Which countries drink the most coffee? You might be surprised but Australia doesn't even make the list of the top 25.

US Army trials augmented reality goggles for dogs

So do you have rocks in your head? Well turns out yes we all do...

A record breaking 18 ft python was found in Florida

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