I’ve been reading about the renewed buzz in Melbourne’s CBD after dark but until last night I hadn’t experienced it. We had tickets to the Rone exhibition ‘Time’, an artistically dusty love letter to Melbourne’s past. Not a history lesson. An interpretation of the space. But wandering (sneezing) home on a hot summer’s night in […]
Sometimes you feel like a boss lady. And sometimes you’re working in bare feet and drowning in sticky notes. Anyone else relate? My mum bought me the ‘Boss Lady’ desk thingy because it was pink, and because it said words she thought were both funny and encapsulated me. Another side says ‘yeah, nah’ ? I […]
I don’t love a New Years Resolution. They seem fleeting, pointless, and TBH I never stick to them because my focus changes and then feel guilty. However, in the spirit of the New Year, Dr Lisa Chaffey ClinScD PLY challenged me to consider what I wanted from 2023. In one word. For a day and a half […]
Early in the morning, I was startled out of a deep sleep by the CFA call out siren. Heart pounding, I wondered if that was the sign that a levee at Kerang had broken. Staying in the middle of the almost deserted town, I was part of the ResilientCo team supporting Gannawarra Shire Council’s efforts […]
I wrote about the lives of many I never got to meet. As a young journalist, I asked questions of their loved ones to learn about them, and to share their lives and loss with the wider world. The love and grief in family, in friends, with so many missing early on, and later, confirmed […]
Government and public health officials are coming up against a universal truth in risk communications and awareness raising – people will make their own determinations about risk using a range of information, feelings, rationalisation and historic knowledge. They’ll check in with others, assess what suits them based on convenience, perceived threat and circumstances, and act […]
Wow I’ve had a good time talking to people lately. In the name of work I mean ? For the past few months, I’ve been focusing on writing content for a range of clients based on interviews – both employees and product supporters. Harking back to my journalist days, I’ve had a ball planning out […]
I had a doozy of a topic to facilitate at the IABC #converge21 communications conference last night – ‘what has your government done well or badly in covid communications?’ Starting with ‘the good’ there was a crazy silence. For the ‘bad’, there were plenty of examples. It’s perhaps not so surprising when considering a worldwide, […]
Recently I went to a music festival. Not usually noteworthy, but it was a COVID-real moment; possibly one of the first large events outside footy to be held since…you know. Because around this time 12 months ago COVID19 became real. Many of us moved to working from home (if we weren’t already). I ordered a […]
This article about how to keep/instill/grow a corporate culture in a distributed work model made me do a happy dance. https://www-entrepreneur-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.entrepreneur.com/amphtml/364250 A combination of forced work from home (pandemic style) and choice (working for myself) gave me real insight (like many) and a further interest in the alignment between culture, HR, leadership and internal communications. When […]
I made the deliberate decision to move to working remotely/from home when I started my own business and began working for an internationally-based company earlier this year. Despite the forced nature, the pandemic had given me a taste of the benefits with flexibility, more time and connections to friends and families, and the ability to […]
I’ve forgotten how to travel. On a plane. Between States. I can travel 5 kms from my home, or I can drive around regional Victoria. But 12 months of home-time has dulled my air travel knowledge. I forgot to book parking; failed to check-in online, had to google what I could take in hand luggage; […]