by John Drury | Feb 25, 2025 | difficult conversations, Finishing Well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, Small Business, wellbeing
Uncomfortable is very different to Unsafe Uncomfortable does not mean unsafe. The opposite of uncomfortable is comfortable. Unsafe means dangerous. An uncomfortable conversation is not automatically dangerous. In fact, it is not usually dangerous. When a manager or...
by John Drury | Nov 1, 2021 | difficult conversations, Leadership Articles, Personal Growth, Self Leadership, Small Business
This is part 2 of the article “How to make your workplace a safe place for difficult conversations” In a recent survey (HR Daily July 2021) one in three respondents stated they will not have a difficult workplace conversation, one in four will not deliver a...
by John Drury | Oct 20, 2021 | difficult conversations, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, Small Business, Team Building, wellbeing
A few years ago, I was mentoring a CEO of a large multi-national firm in Sydney. He casually told me that he was making an underperforming staff member redundant. Their plan was to leave the position vacant for 6 months and then advertise the position under a revised...
