A bumper Women's Month Edition

August brings a new opportunity to acknowledge the powerful contribution that women make to the world, our communities and businesses.

In this month’s bumper edition of CreateSpace, we explore:

  • The role that men play in bridging the gender diversity gap

  • Feature Tara Mohr’s Playing Big video and ‘10 rules for Brilliant Women”

  • Rand Merchant Bank’s award-winning gender equality initiative - The Athena Programme

  • Amy Cuddy’s powerful TEDTalk on power posing and how our body language shapes our idenitities

  • A brilliant Whole Brain® walkaround featuring questions to help circumvent the 7 power gaps women face in the workplace

  • An insightful and practical resource - Building Mental Health and Energy Resilience

  • An inspiring Onsight Team Journey Case Study.

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Are you making magic in your leadership?

As leaders, we expect (and are expected) to make magic. The reality is that we don’t always have the know-how or the skills to ‘pull the rabbit out of the hat’. This edition of CreateSpace is filled with some great articles and resources to make magic in your leadership:

  • Cognitive Diversity: a pathway to inclusive leadership

  • Questions to ignite your best thinking

  • Creating Space for a thinking environment

  • Making magic with McDonald’s MEA Supply Chain Leaders in Jordan

  • The Create Leaders Academy

  • Getting to the bones of great leadership with Morton & Partners.

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Tools to enhance team collaboration

Effective team collaboration has never been more important. While many organisations have streamlined decision making cycles, many have adopted multiple collaboration tools and many people are feeling completely overwhelmed, with team performance bearing the brunt.

A startling statistic is that fewer than 25% of employees prefer to work in teams.

When you hear the war stories of confrontations, scapegoating, blame and other forms of dysfunction, it’s not hard to see why. In this edition of CreateSpace we explore:

  • The 5 dysfunctions of a team (Patrick Lencioni)

  • Why trust is critical in teams?

  • 5 powerful and revealing team questions

  • Are we optimising our team’s collective brain power?

  • A Whole Brain® approach to team effectiveness

  • How Hollard Insure said YES to building the capability of their leadership team.

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Keys to crafting a robust Whole Brain® strategy

It's that time of year where we, as leaders, are asked to don our thinking caps and shape a strategy that will reap results.

To be competitive in today’s BANI (Brittle, Anxious, Non-linear and Incomprehensible) environment, the pressure is on to create and execute a sound, innovative strategy that will be supported by our people.

The success of any good strategy depends on the quality of the thinking that shapes it. To do our best thinking, we need the best thinking of those around us. This begs the question, how well do we know the thinking preferences of our team members?

In this edition of CreateSpace, we explore:

  • How to craft a Whole Brain® strategy

  • A simple brain hack to unlock strategic thinking

  • How we helped the SABMR team to align and save lives.

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Justin Kiley