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The Curly Question of the Day aims to switch our brain off autopilot and provide a new lens through which to explore the everyday. Ask...
★Are you second guessing yourself?★
It had been a hot Summer night and in the morning I looked outside at storm clouds looming on the horizon. I hadn't heard the forecast...
★Is it time to reconnect?★
Curly Conversations enable teams to navigate uncertainty together. One of the critical elements of Curly Conversations is feeling somehow...
★Is someone pushing your buttons?★
What do you do when someone pushes your buttons? We all have topics that we're sensitive about - these are our ‘buttons’. When these...
★Five questions to combat siloed thinking★
Is your team looking from the inside-out or the outside-in? When we’re facing a curly challenge, we often focus on it from the...
★What really matters is the outcome★
Each year in Summer, a floating bar and restaurant appears on the Yarra River in Melbourne. It’s bright white with marquees, lots of palm...
★Have you ever found yourself with too many starting points?★
This happened to me last Monday morning as I looked at my week ahead. The previous week had been a bit chaotic. This meant that there...
Don’t lose sight of the simple things
I was speaking with a young man the other day and he said to me, “You know? Before the average person is going to be able to travel into...
Are you keeping it real?
The other day I was looking through a catalogue for home storage products and I came across a page that was selling products to help...
Is your team as aligned as you need it to be?
Yesterday, I noticed these pigeons perched on our electrical wires. They looked so neat and aligned with each other that I started to...
Are you focusing on what matters?
I’ve been doing a lot of renovating recently and a lot of painting. In one particular area, I struggled to find exactly the right colour....
★Are you stuck in an old paradigm?★
My daughter is in her late teens. I was giving her a hug the other day and she said, “Do you know, Mum, that you still hug me like I’m...
★Are you lost in the detail?★
Last night, a member of my household was making dinner. This particular dish required toasted bread to be cut up and sprinkled over the...
★Are you taking advantage of what you have?★
It's easy to wish for something we don’t have. After all, when we get something new it’s refreshing and helps us escape that feeling of...
★Does your thinking feel a little bit foggy?★
I woke up this morning and looked outside my window. A rather thick fog had settled on the oval nearby. It’s the first real fog we've had...
★Have you done your research?★
On my way back from the supermarket the other day I noticed this car. It had become a resting place for quite a number of seagulls....
★It's just not fair!★
It's a thought I've had quite a lot as Melbourne has returned to Stage 3 lockdown while the rest of Australia carries on with some sense...
★Not every problem has a perfect solution★
Sometimes the solution that we want and need is not available. Consequently, we need to find an alternative that, while it isn’t perfect,...
★Three Leadership Traps & what to do about them★
#1 – Expecting others to be where you are. When we’ve been through disruption it’s easy to expect others to be at the same point in the...
★There is no transition switch★
We've been experiencing a lot of disruption lately and while life may be getting back to normal for some of us, for others, it's very...
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