Mike spent 20 years as a leading survival instructor and agent of organisational change. He knows what it takes to get people performing together in uncertain environments. His practical insights into people under pressure give leaders and their teams a tactical edge in an uncertain world.
Business and life require us to be adaptable. Leaders and their teams face relentless transactional pressure, unprecedented levels of scrutiny and uncertainty. Mike gives you tools for handling pressure, getting stuff done and creating certainty in an uncertain world.
A tactical tool kit to quickly regain clarity, presence and focus under pressure. Easy to remember and easy to use even on the dirtiest of days.
Psychological Safety impacts every area of personal and team performance at work. Develop the skills to build it within your team.
Create clarity, consistency and responsiveness in your organisation with a team of high impact, internal mentors
Practical insights for leaders dealing with Crisis. For emergency and crisis response teams or leaders building crisis readiness and capability into their organisation.
Coaching brings out the best of you as a leader. You’ll go further and faster than if you went alone.
Legacy Leaders lift their teams and organisation beyond their current reality and anchors of the past. They transforming them into enduring icons of success.
Humans are amazing at adapting to Moments of Impact. That includes you! Yet all of us can be deeply shaken. Knocked down. Rendered less effective. Usually at the worst possible moment. This book contains the tactics and mindsets of (Un)shakeable leaders.
Under pressure some of us become instruments of our own demise, reacting in ways that are foolhardy and dangerous. Others survive.
Some do more. They Thrive and Adapt – No matter what.
Weekly insights for dealing with an uncertain world
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Fail One Only envisaging one potential outcome. As a realist with an optimistic bias, I catch myself with this one more often than I would like. I only picture the successful outcome. The positivity sometimes serves me well, but it also makes for a bigger/slower adjustment if things don’t go as anticipated. ‘Foreseeing’ only a good outcome can be like “she’ll be right” – it works well if it goes well. A better version is to forecast 3 versions. Ideal,
Breakfast. A leader I admire. Deep conversation about the state of the world. Great way to start the day. The best leaders I know are unafraid to forecast. They are not trying to predict the future, instead thinking about various possibilities and how they might respond in the face of them. Last week, one such conversation turned to how Western Australia has been relatively immune to several large global crises. GFC – Mining economy shielded usCOVID – distance and sparse
Lily Rice is inspiring and disruptive. She actively defies boundaries. Women in wheelchairs are not expected to be at the skate ramp nailing backflips. But that’s where Lily can be found. The risks that extreme athletes take are obvious – a slip or miscalculation can easily break bones or steal life. So how the heck do you practice for something that risky? Hard surface practice would make for a very short career! Lily nailed her first backflip after a 6
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