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What a great season! It is becoming more beautiful everywhere!

In Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney (and particular, for me, The Blue Mountains) we actually get to see and feel the changing of the season.

Whilst autumn in Brisbane is still beautiful, in over 15 years I am yet to find the autumn colours of the other states (Brissy readers help me out here).

It is a time of shedding leaves, cool breezes and crisp sunny days. It is also a perfect time to reflect on events and traditionally around this time of year a period for emer-gence and new growth.

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*****Louise Hay in her inspirational book, "You Can Heal Your Life" (published in the early 1980s) helps us to understand that if we put the time and mental energy in – almost anything can be “healed” (I prefer to think about this in terms of “renewed”).

One of the stories in her book highlights “renewal” really well. She asks “How long has it been since you cleaned out your closet?” Most of us have our wardrobes stuffed with items of clothing and paraphernalia which were important and use-ful to us in our lives at one point or another – and many items have been entirely forgotten, hidden away in the dark corners and recesses.

How long since you have taken everything out of the wardrobe and examined each item, asking: “Is this item still useful?” or, “Have I used this item in the last year?” “Do I have to keep this worn item because I’m afraid I won’t be able to replace it or do with out it or cope with the space that would be left?”

Jerry Seinfeld (of Seinfeld fame) also had the same fear issues with his “Golden Boy” t-shirt; a t-shirt that was practically falling apart and eventually didn’t make it through just one more wash cycle.

Louise Hay proposes that our closets can be considered symbols of our minds. A cluttered closet could mean a cluttered mind. This same theory can apply to our dresser drawers (or even our desk drawers), most especially the top drawer - often the bottom drawer.

In order to make room for the new (whether it’s new clothes or new thoughts and ideas), we must release the old and the outworn. This is true for physical items as well as for mental ideas. I go through my wardrobe on an annual basis (with the “help” of my wife) and anything I know I won’t use again either gets sold, sent to the thrift shops, or given or thrown away. It’s no longer useful to me and is taking up valued space.

Don’t get me wrong here... I’m not all about throw away the old – as an example, I still love holding onto and looking at real photos of past experiences.

However, I am for discarding the “now not useful”. Whether that be jumper that hasn’t been worn in ages or eggs and bacon deep-fried in fat! (Remember when we used to do that?)

A cluttered closet could mean a cluttered mind. This same theory can apply to our dresser drawers (or even our desk drawers), most especially the top drawer - often the bottom drawer.

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So, is it time for cleaning out your life’s “closet” (with apologies to Eminem)?

What are you holding onto that is not serving you well? What rituals, habits and practices are holding you to a past that may have seen better days?

But wait, … there’s more!Cleaning out the closet can also hold a much stronger meaning for us as leaders! What are the skills, knowledge, tools and mindsets that got you to where you are today? How many of those are relevant for the road that lies ahead?

Consider The Leadership Pipeline, Charam, Drotter and Noel, January 2011 (updated). In their book, these authors contend that the key to developing a lead-ership pipeline revolves around following being clear about:

Leadership Skills: The abilities the leader requires to assume the position.

Time Application: How leaders decide to focus on and work at majority of their time.

Values: A leader’s attitude towards leading the people they work with.

Q: How are you going about grooming yourself for your next rung of leadership?

Q: What is it that you need to leave behind and where do you need to spend time learning and growing to be able to be a more effective leader?

Q: What is your current leadership-learning pathway?

Q: How do you know how you are currently travelling?

Q: How effective are you at critical self-reflection?

Q: Is what you “see” about you the same picture that others see?

Q: Who around you can provide you with the rich data to support you to make valid judgements?

What a great time of year to pause, take stock and re-ignite!

My hope is that a few of the questions above will support you along the way. Let me know how you go.

Cheers!

Ian

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FROM THE MD'S DESK

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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

-John F. Kennedy- (1917-1963)

Thirty-fifth President

of the USA

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WE CELEBRATED OUR 13TH BIRTHDAY

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We celebrated in fine style at Panacea Restaurant with 60 client guests and staff. Ate some amazing tapas styled finger food. Washed down the delicious food with great local wine and bubbles. We all sang Happy Birthday to Insight. Our guests left us with cup cakes and sweet treats...for later of course!!

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Have a read about the significance of number 13...It is an honored number in many countries throughout the world.

Thirteen is more than a mere prime number. The number can cause some people to feel fearful, while for others it is a source of great luck. Few numbers create more of a stir, positive and negative, across the world than the number 13.

There are 13 occurrences of the quantity 13 in the design of the Great Pyramid of Gizeh in Egypt, the largest stone edifice ever built. In the Indian Pantheon there are 13 Buddhas.

The mystical discs that surmount Indian and Chinese pagodas are 13 in number. Enshrined in the Temple of Atsuta in Japan is a sacred sword with 13 objects of mystery forming its hilt. And 13 was the sacred number of the ancient Mexicans – they had 13 snake gods.

The 13th letter of the English alphabet is M, which finds its roots in the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, “mem” (meaning mother), which was the ancient Phoenician word for water. The ancient Egyptian word for water was “moo.” M is the most sacred of all the letters, for it symbolises water, where all life began.

We then recognise the presence of the number one, which precedes the number three. This amplifies the preexisting symbolic meaning of the number one, which deals with:

• Beginnings

• Initiation

• Solidarity

• Unity

• Birth

Singly, these individual number meanings put together tell a story of a path that is just beginning (number one), and will lead to greatness in the expression of the union of opposites (number three).

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WE CELEBRATED OUR 13TH BIRTHDAY

0They say that number 13 is unlucky for some - but we think not!!

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WHO’S WHO @ INSIGHT

As a former State Manager of several training companies, and with exten-sive experience gained on consultancy projects for private enterprises and government departments, Kate is a highly regarded facilitator and asses-sor and an expert in the design and de-velopment of organisational develop-ment programs.

She has particular experience in in-structional design of programs with a focus on workforce productivity en-hancement and cultural change.

Her qualifications in teaching, Business and Training and Assessment, com-bined with over a decade of experi-ence in delivering training, allows Kate to use advanced facilitation strategies to ensure a relevant, practical and en-joyable experience for her participants. With an engaging and interactive pre-sentation style, Kate believes that her greatest accomplishment will be if her students not only learn the necessary information and skills, but enjoy learn-ing.

Kate Smyth is a highly experienced facilitator

and instructional designer who has worked with

many QLD, SA, NSW based organisations,

as well as companies located internationally.

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CHANGE

1: Create a Sense of Urgency

2: Form a Guiding Coalition

3: Create a Vision

4: Communicate the Vision

5: Empower Others to Act on the Vision

6: Create Quick Wins

7: Build on the Change

8: Institutionalise the Change

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geThe 8-Step Process for Leading ChangeThirty years of research by leadership guru Dr. John Kotter have proven that 70% of all major change efforts in organisations fail. Why do they fail?

Because organisations often do not take the holistic approach required to see the change through.

“We cannot solve today’s problems with the same level of thinking that created the problems in the first place.”

-Albert Einstein-

AUTUMN QUOTE:"If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding."

-Andrea Jung-

Spend five minutes with Kate and you can tell that she loves what she does!

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AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP

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ANXIETY

Cycle of Change

Naturally ResistantDo not underestimate the power of "comfort" with how things are today. The natural reaction to change is resistance. Moreover, every individual has a threshold for how much change they can absorb based on their personal and organisational context for change.

You should anticipate resistance to change as the norm and not the exception. Your goal for change management is not to eliminate resistance, but rather to minimize the impact this resistance has on employees and the business.

Reactions to change can be highly varied depending on individuals and their past experience of change and the organisation. Managers leading change processes should spend some time anticipating possible responses from stakeholders, identifying what their concerns may be and planning to respond to their concerns through the change management process.

Binney and Williams (1995) describe 5 groups of people:

1. The Explorers: A small group of people who seek immediate change and are the first to accept the change.

2. The Pioneers: Wait to see what happens to the explorers and will quickly move to support explorers. They accept the rationale behind the change.

3. The Settlers: This is a large group and the majority of the workforce who are not against new ideas but have had poor experiences of change in the past and are cautious. They want proof that the changes will work.

4. The Later to Leavers: A small, vocal group, resistant to change but will eventually move to accept the change.

5. The Stay at Homes: Will openly and actively resist. May leave the organisation or present major challenges to the change process.

From Southern Cross University pdf

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1: Be visible.

2: Be patient and supportive.

3: Provide opportunities to vent emotions.

4: Listen non-defensively.

5: Be specific with assignments.

6: Keep people involved.

7: Focus on feedback, not success or failure.

8: Minimise surprises.

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Key Actions for Leaders Managing Change

Change management is not about managing change....Managing change is about managing people.

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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

-George Bernard Shaw- (1856-1950)

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