Leadership Development
Anneli Blundell
To get what you want, give them what they need

Learn how effective leaders boost focus in meetings by โ€˜going withโ€™ distractions, creating presence, trust, and stronger team communication.

To get what you want, give them what they need
Leadership Development
Anneli Blundell
A clever behaviour change strategy

Discover a powerful behaviour change strategy from communication expert Anneli Blundell in Australia. Learn how to embed change into existing habits by designing around user behavior instead of forcing compliance.

A clever behaviour change strategy
Leadership Development
Anneli Blundell
Why Won't Young People Use the Phone

Why young professionals need phone call training and what it reveals about workplace communication, lost social skills, and the future of work.

Why Won't Young People Use the Phone
Leadership Development
Anneli Blundell
Coaching Maturity and the Power of Silence: ...

True coaching maturity isnโ€™t about clever questions, itโ€™s about your relationship with silence. Discover why experienced leaders and coaches trust pauses, and how silence can spark deeper reflection and real growth.

Coaching Maturity and the Power of Silence: What Your Response to Silence Says About Your Coaching Style
Leadership Development
Anneli Blundell
How to Manage a Brilliant But Difficult Team ...

Struggling with a talented but difficult team member? Learn the 'Fuel Their Fire' approach, a smart leadership strategy to transform disruptive behavior into high-impact contribution through validation, recognition, and redirection.

How to Manage a Brilliant But Difficult Team Member

Would you do this challenge?

Would you do this challenge?

๐–๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž?

I recently walked around with a bunch of bananas on my head in the supermarket (as you do). I did this as part of a challenge issued at the last Professional Speakers Australia event. We were challenged to walk around the supermarket with bananas on our head and take a picture of it. Why? I hear you ask. To show how little others care about or take notice of what we are actually doing. To face into our fears of judgement and to know that they are usually unfounded. This is about freeing us up to be perfectly imperfect humansโ€ฆ and embrace it.

The power of burnout

The power of burnout

There is much being written right now about employee burnout. And for good reason. Employees are burning out. Thereโ€™s been a lot going on. A pandemic. A shift to remote work. The flu season. A shift back to the office. Travel back on. More pandemic. Travel off. A shift back to remote workโ€ฆ oh, and the great resignation, which means new jobs, new expectations, new workloads or (for those left behind) shrinking teams doing expanding work, and less people delivering more projects. And so on it goes.

All the while, dedicated and committed employees have been working their butts off to keep up. People are trying to stay on top of the rising pressures of โ€˜just getting on with itโ€™. But they are struggling.

Donโ€™t let the experience of burnout be your teacher. Let the idea of burnout be your preacher. Let it be the motivational speech that spurs you into action, before itโ€™s too late.

Live or Online? What type of training provides the best results?

Live or Online? What type of training provides the best results?

Now we are back in the office (in some way, shape or form) we need to decide what comes back with us, and what stays on line. This is particularly important for training and development and team building. Over the last few years, we have proven that not only can we work remotely, we can also learn remotely.

So, should we go back to doing these things in person now that we can?

Read the full article to know more.

The secret to getting people back to the office

The secret to getting people back to the office

The secret to getting people back to the office, is not to get them back to the office. Yep. You read that right. It might not be the answer you want to hear, but itโ€™s the reality.

Of course, thereโ€™s a little more to the story but letโ€™s start by ripping the band aid right off. Blanket mandates forcing people to come back to the office, will have dire consequences. Not only will your people resist coming back, they are likely to leave altogether.

Thankfully, over 15 years of studying human behaviour and obsessing about why people do what they do, has shown me that there are other options.

Is the 'best person for the job', the 'best fit for the team'?

Is the 'best person for the job', the 'best fit for the team'?

๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž โ€˜๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฃ๐จ๐›โ€™, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž '๐›๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ'? Do you believe in the power of diversity to deliver results? Do you believe in a champion team, or a team of champions? Do you pick the best person for the job even if they are not the best person for the team? Maybe โ€˜best personโ€™ for the job, isnโ€™t the best person for the team. And maybe that's an equally important measurement. Food for thought. Perhaps we need to broaden our definition of best person for the job, to account for the actual impacts we have on one another โ€“ it's how we work together; how we deliver results together; it's how we are made better together that will get real results.

What Grace Tame can teach us about our own leadership style on International Women's Day

What Grace Tame can teach us about our own leadership style on International Women's Day

You no doubt heard the reports, saw the photos, or watched the video. There was our Prime Minister, in a very public moment, being given the cold shoulder by the outgoing Australian of the Year, Grace Tame. It was clear, she was โ€˜not happy Janโ€™. Now, Iโ€™m not going to talk about whether that was the right thing to do, or the wrong thing to do by Grace. Iโ€™m not here to talk about the cause she is fighting for (weird I know, given itโ€™s an IWD article), nor the politics of the day that led to this uncomfortable moment for the nation. Nay my friends. Iโ€™m here to talk about what we can learn about our own leadership style based on our personal reaction to that moment. In this article, I explore a common leadership need to 'shave off the edges' to help people fit in the box and 'do better at work'. But are we really helping?

She got the role because she's a woman

She got the role because she's a woman

Supporting women into leadership roles can look, to some people, like a shift in prejudice. But itโ€™s not. Not if the woman ultimately earned the right to be there, too. Gender equality is not just about having more women in leadership roles, itโ€™s about fairly promoting women into leadership roles, then unreservedly supporting them to succeed. There are things each of us can do, as women, as men, and as leaders, to make sure no-one has to hear this line again. You can read more in the full article here.

The right way to give positive feedback

The right way to give positive feedback

Positive feedback can be motivating, uplifting, morale boosting and esteem building. But it can also be a practical tool for further developing skills, if you know how to do it correctly. Read the full article for some examples of how to
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Are you sitting down? This is big...very big ;)

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Are you sitting down? This is big...very big ;)

I have BIG news!I would like to thank my amazing team and mentors who have shaped the business woman that I am today. And to the keepers of my heart, my family -Jason Back, Sienna and my mum, Julie. I dedicate this award to ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ who have trusted me over the years.