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The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Newsletter - The Real Learning Experience - March Newsletter

Each month during 2025, we will create resources (mostly free) to help leaders tackle issues that impede performance, undermine workplace culture and mess with their heads!

March’s topic was Understanding, measuring and changing your workplace culture.

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Are the monkeys running the zoo? Podcast leadership

Have you ever thrown your hands in the air, frustrated, and said, ‘the monkeys are running the zoo!’
If you haven’t, I bet one of your co-leaders has.
What does that mean, though? And why does it happen?

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The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Newsletter - The Real Learning Experience - March Newsletter

Each month during 2025, we will create resources (mostly free) to help leaders tackle issues that impede performance, undermine workplace culture and mess with their heads!

March’s topic was Understanding, measuring and changing your workplace culture.

Read More »
Are the monkeys running the zoo? Podcast leadership

Have you ever thrown your hands in the air, frustrated, and said, ‘the monkeys are running the zoo!’
If you haven’t, I bet one of your co-leaders has.
What does that mean, though? And why does it happen?

Read More »
The Culture Nerds - A Leadership Newsletter - A Culture of Accountability

Each month during 2025, we will create resources (mostly free) to help leaders tackle issues that impede performance, undermine workplace culture and mess with their heads!

March’s topic was A Culture of Accountability.

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Leadership lessons from the wilderness A few years ago, one of my sons and I completed a four-day bush walk,  lugging an enormous backpack along the extraordinary Tasman Coastal Trail

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Do you have a poor performer in your team? This isn’t someone who is doing well but could do better, which describes most people in most workplaces. This is someone

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I finished my presentation and the CEO beamed at me. ‘That’s brilliant,’ he said. ‘It’s great to have confirmation that we are doing all the right things.’ He smiled around

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People toss around this old cliche in workplaces, like a cork, casually thrown overboard, being thrown around by the waves. It is often used to justify a lack of support

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Who creates culture? Leaders… Team members… or Both? A theme has emerged in several workplaces we are currently working with to help them shape their culture. Each of these workplaces

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Are your people highly engaged but leaving, anyway? Have you done an engagement survey that suggests that you should find it easy to retain and attract excellent people, everyone should

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Unlock exceptional team results in 2024! Discover 8 leadership tips to create a workplace where your team WANTS to excel. Engage, motivate, and lead for success.

When people return to work after a break, there are two, and sometimes three, reasons that are driving them to come back. They are compelled to because their approved period

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