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Reflection Blogs -
To maximize the benefits of your blog reading:
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Choose a journal (or use your work diary or digital device) and commit (to yourself), the reading of one blog each week.
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Reflect on the questions at the end of each post to gain deeper insight into your thoughts and practices.
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Take it a step further, by sharing your reflections with a mentor or your team and encourage them to engage with the questions as well.
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Utilize reflections to shape you and your team's professional development plans with real and relevant development plans and goals.
Blog Posts
Emotional Intelligence is a pressure conversion system
Without emotional intelligence, pressure moves quickly through the system and becomes behaviour that impacts others, often in ways that do not reflect who we intend to be as leaders.
learnleadthrive
5 minutes ago2 min read
Empathy builds bridges between perspectives
Empathy builds bridges between perspectives: self-empathy keeps you standing on your own side of the bridge.
learnleadthrive
4 days ago3 min read
Collaboration starts with curiosity
Collaboration starts with curiosity - At every interaction you have two choices
1/ to connect
2/ to disconnect
Which do you choose?
learnleadthrive
Mar 62 min read
Accountability proves reflection
Reflection is a key and daily function of relational leadership (leading self and leading others) practices.
Accountability demonstrates what is mine to own. Responsibility assigns what is mine to do.
learnleadthrive
Feb 272 min read
Leadership without reflection is simply direction
Leadership without reflection, insight and action is simply direction. It is transactional not transformational.
learnleadthrive
Feb 202 min read
Belonging is place, mattering is significance
What is "mattering" in the workplace and how is this different from belonging?
learnleadthrive
Feb 163 min read
Accountability is not punishment, it's partnership
When accountability is used to partner rather than punish, it creates space for growth, repair and shared ownership
learnleadthrive
Feb 52 min read
Regulated selves + clear systems = Real Collaboration
True collaboration arises when emotionally regulated individuals meet organisational systems that legitimise difference, distribute power clearly, and make repair non-negotiable.
learnleadthrive
Jan 312 min read
Emotional autarky supports workplace wellbeing
Emotional autarky refers to the capacity to self-regulate your own emotions rather than outsourcing emotional stability to others. In workplace contexts, this does not mean emotional suppression or disconnection, it means developing enough i nner steadiness to engage, respond and relate without reactivity, dependency or emotional leakage. Leaders and team members who cultivate emotional autarky bring a grounded presence that stabilises systems and the work environmen
learnleadthrive
Jan 222 min read
Words + Repair = Apology
Words acknowledge, repair transforms! An apology is not a performance of remorse ; it is a commitment to restore safety. When leaders use words to name harm clearly and without defense, they model emotional maturity , ethical presence and they begin the conditions for healing . Words alone only soothe the surface; they do not rebuild trust. Repair is the transformational half of an apology and the behaviour culture your people will copy . Repair shows learning, accou
learnleadthrive
Jan 122 min read
Presence is powerful, attune before you act
Every new year invites a pause , not just to set goals, but to examine the presence we bring into the spaces we lead. Presence is more than showing up; it is the emotional , physical , relational and psychological impact we carry into every conversation, decision and moment of influence. Leaders hold power through their presence, whether they intend to or not and that presence must be fully understood to ensure it is landing constructively , with intention and with resp
learnleadthrive
Jan 42 min read
Listen openly, learn purposefully, lead authentically
As the year winds down and the pressures of Christmas, deadlines and collective fatigue rise, the capacity to listen openly becomes more challenging, and even more necessary. End-of-year tiredness narrows attention, shortens patience and makes reactive communication tempting. Yet open listening means being fully present, attuned and receptive, even when our own mental bandwidth feels stretched. It is an act of respect and an anchor for connection to listen openly and p
learnleadthrive
Dec 16, 20252 min read
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