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Ngahuru, kura kai, kura tangata – ‘Harvest-time, wealth of food, the wealth of people’
As we transition into Ngahuru/Autumn, we find ourselves amidst a time of change and adaptation. As nature sheds its her colours in preparation for...
Strategic Influencing Webinar
Belinda Bryant has spent many years teaching people ‘influencing skills’. Consequently she has given more thought than most to the contexts where the ‘rubber hits the road’ in influencing terms.
Mental Wellbeing, Resilience & Coaching
Mental wellbeing. It’s important to all of us. In today’s world, we face many things that can induce anxiety, stress and sometimes drag us down....
“Conversations to Keep Lawyers Away” Webinar
A failing employment relationship in a team, is a situation most leaders dread. It can cause huge harm for all involved – often over quite a...
Haere mai Reremoana
Reremoana, can you tell us what you thought as you went through our recruitment process and came to the decision this is something you’d like to do?...
Haere mai Toby
Toby Cooper is someone we have known and worked with at Updraft for some years – as both a client and collaborator. He has worked all around...
Disagreeing Well Webinar
Disagreeing well is an important skills in today’s working environments, where roles are moving from task-based to capability focused; team members are asked for their subject matter expertise and often required to mentor others, and top-down, ‘leader knows best’ structures are giving way to manaakitanga, agile practices, and shared knowledge and expertise.
The Tricky Business Of Giving Feedback
A lifetime of reflection has led me to understand that I, like most others find some feedback very hard to embrace while other feedback can slip off of me like water off of a duck’s back. I also find some feedback is easier to give than others.
Getting Your Team Member ‘Back On Track’
If you manage people you will invariably encounter one of your team members under-performing or behaving not as you would have expected or liked.
Retention Strategies And Stay Conversations Webinar
An extraordinary set of economic, social and immigration factors seems to have landed us with a perfect storm of retention and recruitment challenges. This means leaders and organisations really need to get proactive about managing their capacity.