HOW SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE OVERCOME UNCERTAINTY
How comfortable do you feel being uncomfortable?by Isabel Valle, Peak Performance Strategist One of our most basic human needs is the need to feel safe. We crave certainty, stability and consistency, and yet, we have to live with constant uncertainty. Operating in a VUCA world, used to describe the rapidly transforming global business landscape, we […]
NAVIGATING THROUGH COVID 19 Austcham
Dear Friends, We are facing an unprecedented time in our history. The world is navigating through uncharted territory in the midst of this global pandemic which is impacting our health, our businesses and the global economy. Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve watched how this pandemic has heightened and many businesses have been forced […]
The Rise of Ordinary Heroes
The world is going through the biggest change in history. We are living in a new era with unprecedented conditions at all levels: unstable external environment, changing political and financial forces, technological advancements, global warming, etc. In this new phase of globalisation, the role of society is being reinvented and ordinary people are taking back […]
COMBAT DECISION FATIGUE AND HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS EVERY TIME
Making decisions, even small ones, can wear us down over time. Every day we make endless decisions about what we eat and wear, what we work on, what we do with our spare time. By bedtime, the average person has made 35,000 decisions! Every decision requires time and energy, and depletes our willpower. Add to […]
7 Ways to Stay Ultra-Productive when Working from Home
COVID 19 has changed the way we work. Working from home has now become a necessity. In trying to keep the pandemic from spreading any further and reduce the numbers of people getting sick, quarantined, or caring for loved ones, we’ve had to look at ways to send our employees home and trust that business […]
The Fearless Leader: How charging your fears can help you navigate through anything that life throws your way
There are moments in life when you feel under attack. It could be a batch of bad decisions, unfortunate events, epic failures, health issues, financial struggles, stress and overwhelm at work, sleepless nights, family or friends’ grave illnesses… or even a global pandemic which gives little signs of easing up. Sometimes, it seems as if […]
Time to Get Real about Work-Life Balance
Are we getting it all wrong? I believe that for far too long we’ve been stuck as a society into a particular set of thinking about how we work and live. It is time to get real, to break from those so called “work-life” issues, and start creating a different type of integration to live […]
Five tips for networking and meeting
In most cases, being an expat in a country far away from our family and loved ones means that we either go out and create some more love in our new life, or we spend most of our time longing for our loved ones back home. One of the toughest challenges that expats find in […]
Meet Inés Caldeira: A force to be reckoned with
After seeing Inés Caldeira speak to a room of over 340 attendees at the “Women in Leadership” event organised by CanCham in February, I was captivated by her presence, humility and openness with her talk “I am worth it”. Following the event, I wanted to find out more about who she really is, the woman […]
Women in Leadership: Defining the next generation
On Wednesday 13th February, I was honoured to participate in the Women in Leadership (WIL) 2019 event, organised by the Thai-Canadian Chamber of Commerce, CanCham Thailand. The event, held at the Renaissance Bangkok Hotel, in the heart of the city, was attended by over 340 participants, and it was a resounding success. The event was […]