Episodes

  • Leadership: Glue

    Leadership: Glue
    Mar 1 2026
    A key component of successful organisations is The Heart within the operations, the glue, the spirit that presents itself as a positive belief in people, and a belief that the organisation can handle whatever comes its way.

    There is an intentional consciousness and commitment to live from that belief system. This apllies in all walks of life - highlighted recently at the winter olympics.

    Good Reading
    Susan Jefffers, Feel the Fear and Beyond (ISBN: 9780712608831)
    https://susanjeffers.com/books/feel-the-fear-and-beyond/

    HOT Leadership
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    17 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Learning

    Heart Leadership: Learning
    Feb 22 2026
    In Heart Leadership if we are to lead with courage we have to Learn. Learn why we may be 'missing the mark'. Learn whay we do very well sometimes and not so well at other times. We need to undersatnd the sources of our fears.

    Understand what disguises them from us so that we believe we are angry, frustrated, irritated or confused.

    WE need to be conscious of what is driving us. WE should also understand our own spirits and the nature of spirit if we are to know how to respect the spirits of others.....

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    15 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Courage in action

    Heart Leadership: Courage in action
    Feb 15 2026
    To bring spirit into an organisation requires Courage. It requires Leadership commiting to have courage to be calm amid chaos, to sustain the tension until empowered learning has happened. To maintain personal spirit, to have faith and trust in both people and the process.

    Giving orders doesn't require personal courage. That's one of the reasons so many mangers, who give lip service to workers involvement, revert to old modes of working when the going gets tough...

    To live the kind of courage required to bring spirit into the workplace requires our organisational leadership to take time to truly experience the relationship with ourselves and others we live and work with. Let's see what this looks, sounds and feels like...

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    18 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Tapping The Spirit

    Heart Leadership: Tapping The Spirit
    Feb 8 2026
    The Leader who doesn't keep people focused on the organisation's financials as well as their spiritual goals is undermining their trust which jepordises the relationship of the leader to their workers.

    Having a safe relationship is needed for workers to be innovative and creative. The real bottom line is to have finacially healthy, competitive organisationin which there is no need to choose between either financial security and productivity or helping people dicover creativity and meaning in their work - both are critical.

    One way of looking and understanding this is to explore something called the Spirit Cycle......

    Link to The Spirit Cycle Graphic:
    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kidoSf_hOURCBv_WkBy_RxxKVRifvyUY/view?usp=sharing

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    17 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Empowering Relationships

    Heart Leadership: Empowering Relationships
    Feb 1 2026
    In my Human and Organisational Factors research I have found that in organisations with empowering communications they do the following:
    • when people talk they are present with each other
    • their focus is on the person they are speaking to - completely
    • they listen carefully
    • their pace of talking is slower and more studied
    • the level of respect with which each speaks to the other truly honours both
    Let's explore in more depth...


    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    15 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Unleashing the Spirit Cycle

    Heart Leadership: Unleashing the Spirit Cycle
    Jan 25 2026
    In my research into Human Factors and leaders who promoted creativity, quality and safety I had the opportunity to travel far and wide. I came across an organisation that had an intuitive leader who told me story after story of innovations that their workers had made to enhance the way that they worked. Some changes improved safety, others improved productivity, others improved engineering of products...

    What was 'setting these people on fire'? It was something that was happening at a deep root level, someting we called the Spirit Cycle. It was the way people reltaed to each other in a spirit respecting workplace that produces a self perpetuating energy...

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    17 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Dialogue

    Heart Leadership: Dialogue
    Jan 18 2026
    As Leaders if we are to provide space for a spirit centred community to emerge we need a new tool that seeks to challenge our assumptions, our creativity and our spotaneity rather than to restrict and controlin order toensure outomes with which we are familiar and comfotablw with.

    A communication process called dialogue has gained great respect over the last number oy years - let's explore....

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    19 mins
  • Heart Leadership: Ask - Listen - Create Space

    Heart Leadership: Ask - Listen - Create Space
    Jan 11 2026
    The Power of questions may be the most underrated and overlooked leverage we have on our organisations.

    It is a powerful decision making device and a powerful learning tool. Most of us aren't used to thinking in the terms of questions; we have to practice developing information and idea generating questions and learn to 'package' them in an empowering way to bring understanding to the isssue(s) being explored.

    When we combine that with creating space for ideas to develop and actively listen to responses we all grow to greater levels of understaning and potenetially limitless possibilities....

    Dream Dare Dazzle
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    16 mins