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Insights on strategy, execution, talent and culture.
Holistic Leadership
Exceptional leadership is built on a foundation of four pillars, and when leaders tend to all four pillars, something remarkable happens. People show up energised. They know what matters and why. They trust each other enough to move fast and take smart risks.
November 19, 2025
Risk Management Essentials
Identifying risks early allows you to put out small fires before they becomes wildfires. Proactive risk management creates clarity, increases confidence, saves time, money and resources.
May 9, 2025
Reclaiming the Value of Performance Reviews
When done with intention, performance reviews can transform from a “necessary evil” into one of the most powerful tools for driving clarity, alignment and employee satisfaction within an organization.
May 4, 2025
BYO Project Management Framework
The best teams don’t conform to a methodology, they build their own playbook based on the unique challenges of their projects.
May 30, 2025
Drag is Slowing Your Company Down
Misalignment from unclear priorities, conflicting incentives, redundant processes, etc. create invisible resistance that slows progress.
May 23, 2025
Need More Innovation? Kill More Projects
By actively evaluating ongoing initiatives and maintaining a flexible approach to team structuring, organizations can free up resources, avoid wasted effort and maintain a sharper focus on their most important work.
May 2, 2025
Forging Status Updates
Project status reports are useful tools for keeping teams aligned, managing stakeholders and demonstrating progress. Here are a few practical tips to help you craft status reports that create clarity and keep your projects on track.
May 18, 2025
Hard Power vs. Soft Power in Leadership
The best leaders understand that leadership isn’t about control, it’s about influence. It’s not about demanding obedience; it’s about earning trust.
May 16, 2025
Forging Trust Through Kudos
When we think of building trust and breaking silos in the workplace, the challenge can feel insurmountable. Sometimes it’s the small things that make the biggest impact, like a simple act of recognition.
May 11, 2025
Treating Projects as Products
Projects exist to solve problems and in that sense, projects are products. When we start treating projects as products, we unlock a new level of ownership, purpose and effectiveness.
March 7, 2025
Planning and Task Prioritisation
There are several factors that go into planning the best way forward in your projects. One of the most useful skills project managers learn and work to improve is in planning the way the work itself is prioritised.
March 28, 2025
What We Have Here, is Failure, to Communicate
At its core, the problem is one of information flow. Organizations need people to have the right information at the right time to make the right decisions.
March 21, 2025
Addressing Ambiguity
Even after reaching agreements with stakeholders on project goals or success criteria, gaps often remain between your understanding and what your customers, managers and team members envision.
March 14, 2025
Building a Performance Culture
A high performance culture is built on clear expectations, real-time feedback, meaningful recognition, a commitment to growth and an environment where employees feel safe to perform at their best.
June 6, 2025
Culture is Strategy: Tend to It
Why Leadership Impact Matters Beyond Metrics: Culture isn’t just an abstract concept, it is a competitive advantage. The best strategies fail in toxic environments, while strong cultures amplify execution.
June 27, 2025
Beyond Firefighting
Many companies operate in a constant state of crisis. Instead of following a clear and steady strategy, they jump from one urgent issue to the next and employees quickly learn that the best way to gain recognition is to drop everything and put out fires.
June 20, 2025
Embracing Transparency
Organizations that embrace transparency don’t just work better, they work smarter. Studies consistently show that transparency enhances trust, improves decision-making and reduces the harmful effects of workplace politics.
June 13, 2025
The Management Path
When management is treated as just another promotion rather than as a calling, it leads to uninspired, ineffective and even toxic leadership - where managers are either ill-equipped, unmotivated, or focused on the wrong things.
July 4, 2025
Delegating Outcomes
Like many new managers, I ended up trying to stay involved in pretty much everything. I delegated tasks, but usually one at a time. "Delegate more" is well worn leadership advice, but it is a lot more complicated than that.
July 25, 2025
Project Clarity Check-up
Just like a doctor looks for vital signs, a project manager needs to assess the level of clarity across the project. If there are areas of confusion or uncertainty, it's a symptom that needs attention. A project with good clarity is most likely a healthy project.
July 18, 2025
Aggressive Conflict Resolution
If you don’t address conflict, it doesn’t go away, it festers in the background, affecting morale and performance. The rare leaders who proactively address conflict create an environment where people feel heard, respected and engaged.
July 11, 2025
The Triangle - Priority Clarity
The simple, powerful lesson of the triangle is often overlooked: the wisdom of setting clear expectations upfront about how to manage inevitable challenges to the project.
January 31, 2025
Aspirational Reviews
There’s something inherently powerful about articulating a future state in vivid detail, which is why writing a self-assessment at the start of a review period can transform goal setting and performance discussions.
January 3, 2025
Performance Reviews - Expectation, Impact and Behaviour
Practical strategies for setting expectations, evaluating impact and recognizing behaviors, ensuring a meaningful review process that benefits both managers and their teams.
January 24, 2025
The Cost of Indecision
Indecision at the top cascades down, leaving teams stuck in limbo, wasting time and effort on initiatives that might never happen, leading to frustration, disengagement and ultimately, attrition.
January 17, 2025
Goals, KRs and Metrics
One common challenge teams face is aligning their goals with the broader objectives of the organization, particularly when teams lack context regarding what is happening within the larger organization. Utilizing metrics can be an effective way to achieve this clarity.
January 10, 2025
Writing Constructive Feedback
We’ve all been there - someone asks for your feedback and suddenly your mind goes blank. You’re left scrambling for thoughts, unsure of where to start or what areas to cover.
February 7, 2025
Healthy Debate in Teams
When trust exists within a team, disagreement doesn’t feel like conflict, it feels like collaboration. The best teams embrace debate because they trust each other and that everyone is working toward the same goal.
February 28, 2025
Manifesting Values
The values pyramid can be more than an abstract concept; it can be the backbone of goal setting and strategic decision-making, creating consistency in execution and preventing reactionary swings in focus.
February 21, 2025
The Role of Community
When we think about what makes companies thrive, our minds often go to strategy, innovation and bottom-line results, but one of the most powerful levers for long-term success often goes unnoticed: community.
February 14, 2025
Why Organisational Clarity?
Our mission is to empower organizations by fostering cultures of clarity and transparency, engagement and collaboration. Through innovative tools, best practices and partnership with leaders, we strive to unlock the competitive advantage inherent in healthy organizations.
December 6, 2024
Competencies and Roles
Leveraging competencies to create clarity around expectations of employees in different roles and at different levels gives them a much better sense of what they need to suceed.
December 27, 2024
The Role of Values
In far too many companies, values are nothing more than a long list of positive words that look good on posters. How do leaders ensure their values actually guide decision-making? It starts with creating clarity around what values are the most important.
December 20, 2024
Communities and Onboarding
When suported by strong communities, onboarding can be a collaborative and empowering experience that helps employees become productive much more quickly.
December 13, 2024
Meetings Are for Destroying Ambiguity
Meetings are not for information dissemination. That’s what documents are for. Meetings are not for regurgitating updates. That’s what tracking tools and written reports are for. Meetings exist to create clarity.
August 1, 2025
Strategic Impact
You can take a strategic approach to your career by defining the impact you want to make, tracking your contributions along the way and building a body of work that tells a compelling story of success.
April 25, 2025