by John Drury | May 5, 2022 | Group Mentoring, Planning, Small Business, Team Building
A fresh challenge During the Covid lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 I have been busy. Firstly, beating off a nasty little cancerous growth in and around the muscle tissue of my bladder. I’m very grateful that surgery in February 2020 was very successful. Three check-ups...
by John Drury | Feb 21, 2022 | Finishing Well, Leadership Articles, Mindset, Personal Growth, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, values
My innings had just begun. I had scored 2. A new bowler came on and seemed to be bowling straight up and down. No swing, no turn. I played down the line of the next ball coming at me confident I had it under control. However, the ball spun quite sharply, missed my bat...
by John Drury | Feb 8, 2022 | Leadership Articles, Mindset, Personal Growth, Planning, Rhythm of Life, Self Leadership, wellbeing
More information than we need is literally at our fingertips. Information is multiplying exponentially every day across every field you can imagine (and some you can’t). We Google for information and we search on YouTube for demonstrations of how to apply information....
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...
by John Drury | May 31, 2021 | Leadership Articles, Personal Growth, Planning, Self Leadership, Small Business
I learned a valuable business leadership lesson when I was introduced to mountain bike riding on the winding tracks of the beautiful Blue Mountains. Most of the tracks we ride on are narrow walking tracks carved out along ridges and down into the gullies of the rugged...