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Five ways to welcome youth talent to your organisation
"I want to be meaningfully engaged and not feel stupid." Five practical ways to welcome young talent and make them genuinely feel like they belong.
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The future skills you’re looking for are already here
Auckland's rangatahi already have the adaptability, digital fluency, and resilience employers are hunting for. The talent pipeline is right here.
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The Ultimate Guide to Accessibility for Tāngata Whaikaha
Around 25% of New Zealand's population has a disability — yet workplace accessibility still fails them. Here's what meaningful inclusion actually looks like.
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Connecting with IDEA
D&I doesn't go far enough. By focusing on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility together, we get closer to workplaces that truly work for everyone.
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Surviving re-entry to professional life
Coming back to work after baby #3 during lockdown? Three neuroscience-backed things that cut through the blur and brought back some clarity.
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Achieve anything
Most people know what they want. Fewer know how to get there. Here's how to stop your mind getting in the way of your own ambitions.
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To stack or not to stack…
Most of us frame obligations as things we have to do — but we almost always have more choice than we think. A simple reframe that opens up options.
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Changing your mind
An agile practitioner catching herself resisting change? It happens. Here's an honest reflection on when adaptability gets harder than we'd like to admit.
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Making Meetings Magic
Most meetings don't need to happen. Those that do? Keep them to three parts: need to know, check this, help me. Simple, short, done.
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Give the gift of Feedforward this Christmas
Feedback looks back. Feedforward looks forward. It's a small shift that makes hard conversations easier — and shows people you genuinely care.
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Do something you love
"Follow your passion" sounds like a cliché. Turns out it's actually solid career advice — here's the honest case for why it holds up.
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