Work/Life Balancing Act Part 2

Addic­tion… I won­der more and more these days whether there exists some kind of men­tal or even phys­i­cal addic­tion to work.  I was train­ing a work­shop recently in which one of the par­tic­i­pants was con­stantly check­ing his Black­berry, even though I had asked every­one at the begin­ning of the day to turn off their phones […]

Work/Life Balancing Act Part 1

Not too long ago I was in a car with my father dri­ving along Sus­sex Street in Syd­ney CBD at 9:30pm. We were on our way back from the the­atre after see­ing a play.  My father com­mented on a long line of taxis out­side one tall city build­ing whose offices were all lit up. The the­atre […]

Fire, Snowball, Mask, Movie: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change

The fol­low­ing arti­cle by Peter Fuda and Pro­fes­sor Richard Bad­ham is the result of a com­pre­hen­sive study about the com­mon expe­ri­ences of highly effec­tive lead­ers uncov­er­ing a num­ber of metaphors which describe how lead­ers spark and sus­tain organ­i­sa­tional change. The arti­cle high­lights just some of the amaz­ing work by Richard Bad­ham in the area of […]

Inner Life, Outer Results - December Edition

Brett Wood explores the rela­tion­ship between inner work, per­for­mance and well­be­ing.   LOST IN TIME We don’t see the world as it is. We see the world as we are. –Anais Nin Well, as the end of the year fast approaches, once again I’m hear­ing myself and oth­ers say­ing “Can you believe it’s only 2 weeks […]

Can Leaders Learn to be Resilient?

There has been a long run­ning debate about whether lead­ers are born or made.Certainly the busi­ness world believes they can be made. Google ‘lead­er­ship devel­op­ment’ and you get over a quar­ter of a BILLION hits. Amazon.com has over 400 books tagged by cus­tomers on the sub­ject of lead­er­ship devel­op­ment. In fact a whole indus­try has […]

The Art of Reflection and Football…

To my great sur­prise 15 years ago I moved from Mel­bourne to Syd­ney. I moved from the mecca of Aus­tralian rules foot­ball (where I loathed the game) to a new place, where by some strange coin­ci­dence found myself at the SCG with a red and white scarf on, cheer­ing my lungs out for my new […]

Wellbeing in the Workplace

Well­ness is a mul­ti­di­men­sional state of describ­ing the exis­tence of pos­i­tive health in an indi­vid­ual as exem­pli­fied by the qual­ity of life and a sense of well­be­ing.” –Charles B.Corbin of, Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity Well­be­ing is a hot topic at the moment and Aus­tralia seems to be hot on the heels of the USA in terms […]

Inner Life…Outer Results (October edition)

Brett Wood explores the rela­tion­ship between inner work, per­for­mance and well­be­ing.   Me and my Shadow   A few years back I was work­ing in a lead­er­ship role in an Edu­ca­tional Insti­tu­tion. I had to address a dif­fi­cult issue with one of my staff. She had been accused of bul­ly­ing by one of her stu­dents. I […]

Be Learning and Woolworths win a highly acclaimed Stevie® Award

  It is not the first time Wool­worths and Be Learn­ing have col­lab­o­rated and won an award, how­ever we are espe­cially pleased to announce that the film ‘A Fam­ily Affair’ pro­duced by Be Learn­ing for Wool­worths has won a Ste­vie® Award at the 2011 Inter­na­tional Busi­ness Awards in the ‘Best Film Cat­e­gory’. Be Learn­ing would […]

Infographics: The BETTER Effects of The BIGGER Picture!

Adding images and graph­ics to online con­tent has been pop­u­lar for­ever. A lot of new-age con­tent online is now com­pletely done by way of ‘info­graph­ics’. So what are these info­graph­ics? To put it really sim­ply, it is ‘Infor­ma­tion rep­re­sented in the form of graph­ics’. These are used mostly when a lot of com­plex infor­ma­tion is […]

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