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Power of Purpose Or Race to the Bottom

When organisations do not act congruently with their Purpose and Values, then, for these organisations, it is a race to the bottom! I have seen it so many times in large and small organisations, in schools and sporting teams – the place starts to implode – performance declines, selfishness ensues, people turn inwards and sometimes, lives […]

Believing You Can Improve Your Mental Health

Believing you can improve you mental health actually works – sure, doing things to improve or maintain your mental health is critical but whether you take action or not, people who believe they can do something to keep mentally healthy have higher mental wellbeing than those who do not have such belief. This could be explained […]

Feedback That Moved Me

Celebrating a lovely piece of feedback, I recieved yesterday from a business manager within the education sector: “My good man, if imitation is the highest form of flattery, you may be delighted to know that at our Leaders Governance meeting on Saturday, you and your work was referenced by me and the CEO. So gratitude and […]

Our 50th Engagement Survey

Next month, People At Their Best will conduct its 50th large-scale engagement survey. To our clients who have trusted us over the past 10-years, we would like to say, ‘Thank You’ Whether we are talking about employee engagement or customer satisfaction, what we have found is those organisation who look after their employees and their customers, enjoy […]

PERMA+ Helps Us Flourish

As 2021 turned into 2022, I was asked by Storm Magazine in Singapore, to define what it meant to be living a full life. In response, I said: “Involvement in things which I find meaningful, the things I care about. At the end of the day, having the ability to determine how to spend one’s time […]

Ethical Decision Making in an Unscrupulous World

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF A LIFE – IT IS TO CREATE YOURSELF A SOUL In April 2022, I gave an address to Steiner Education Australia, titled: Ethical decision making in an unscrupulous world – How leaders can still make principled decisions. I was then asked to build the presentation into a paper, which I […]

Lost On The Way – New Music

Another song I helped to co-produce and bring into the world A beautiful sadness was present in the recording of this track – I hope you think so too. It’s hard to be this restrained but we wanted the track to breathe in and out Raf Rouco & The Conformists make sweet music https://rafrouco.bandcamp.com/track/lost-on-the-way

Light From This Dimension – New Music

I’m thrilled to have helped bring another piece of music into the world – there’s a jaunty apocalypse feeling washing over this track and a sonic quality that we were chuffed with. The track is called, ‘Light From This Dimension by Raf Rouco & the Conformists. The track was recorded by Michael Carpenter and I […]

My Hopes For 2022

A diverse range of perspectives in this article from the team at Storm Singapore, a magzine that is brave enough to say the things that need to be said. I am really pleased to have my perspective included in this article.

Christmas Newsletter – December 2021

People At Their Best Christmas Newsletter with a special shout-out to the great teams at Flavour Creations in Brisbane and Forico in Launceston Dear Friends and Colleagues, Albert Einstein said, ‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ As we move into a new phase of rampant escalating […]