Articles

Notes on communication, confidence & teams.

Evidence-based writing on the human skills that make work better - and how improv builds them. No fluff, and I'm honest about what the research does and doesn't show.

Teams & culture

Psychological safety at work: what it is, and how to actually build it

The biggest driver of team performance - and it's not the same as being nice. What the research says, and the leader behaviours that build it for real.

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Leadership

How to give feedback people can actually use

A third of feedback makes performance worse. What separates the kind that helps from the kind that hurts - and how to give the good kind.

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Teams & culture

Team-building activities that actually work (a Melbourne facilitator's honest take)

Most team-building has modest, forgettable effects. What separates a day that changes how a team works from an awkward day out.

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Communication

Communication skills training that isn't death by role-play

Most communication training doesn't stick, because listening is a habit you practise, not a slide you absorb. What actually builds it.

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Confidence & presence

How to get over the fear of public speaking (what actually works)

Presenting, pitching, speaking up in the all-hands - it's the professional's tax. What the evidence says actually reduces the fear.

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