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How Can I Easily Refresh Over The Summer Break?
"We were standing on the edge With the sand under our feet We felt like we'd made it…. And it feels like summer And it feels like summer"...
Tamar Balkin
Dec 14, 20212 min read


How Do I Navigate Work When My Boss Doesn’t Really Want To Be A Leader?
"Maybe we can Find a place to feel good And we can treat people with kindness Find a place to feel good Giving second chances I don't...
Tamar Balkin
Sep 27, 20214 min read


What Is The Impact Of Poor Job Fit On Employee Wellbeing?
"Please, would you one time Let me be myself So I can shine with my own light And let me be myself?" Let Me Be Myself by 3 Doors Down...
Tamar Balkin
Sep 15, 20214 min read


Will Fostering A Culture Of Forgiveness Improve Workplace Wellbeing?
"It's sad, so sad It's a sad, sad situation And it's gettin' more and more absurd It's sad, so sad Why can't we talk it over? Ohh, it...
Tamar Balkin
Sep 2, 20215 min read


Can "Giving" To Others At Work Enhance Leadership Capability And Wellbeing?
"I'll give a little bit I'll give a little bit of my life for you So give a little bit Give a little bit of your time to me" Give a...
Tamar Balkin
Aug 18, 20212 min read


What Will You Learn About Your Leadership Capability When You Stop, Look And Listen?
I have a draft blog sitting on my laptop that I may send out later in the week but an experience this morning reminded me of the...
Tamar Balkin
Aug 3, 20211 min read


Will Watching The Olympics Improve My Leadership Capability?
“Everyone runs in her own way, or his own way. And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.” Ian...
Tamar Balkin
Jul 27, 20215 min read


My Staff Seem To Need Me More Than Ever, How Am I Going To Get My Work Done?
“Catch my breath, no one can hold me back, I ain't got time for that” Catching my Breath by Kelly Clarkson (click here for the Song)...
Tamar Balkin
Jul 22, 20212 min read


Can Your Leadership Style Reduce The Likelihood Of Burnout?
‘No time to wallow in the mire’ Come on Baby Light My Fire by The Doors. (click here for the Song) (I challenge you to just sit and...
Tamar Balkin
Jul 16, 20216 min read


Is It Ever Ok To Give Unsolicited Advice?
"It’s the good advice that you just didn’t take" Ironic by Alanis Morissette (click here for the song) Photo by Jonathan Cooper on...
Tamar Balkin
Jun 18, 20215 min read


Why Do We Still Need To Talk About Mental Illness At Work?
“Cause I'm way down in it and I can't breathe so I can't speak I want to be strong and steady, always ready Now I feel so small, I feel...
Tamar Balkin
Jun 3, 20214 min read


Are There Some Advantages To Employee Turnover?
“Slip inside the eye of your mind Don't you know you might find A better place to play" Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis(click here for...
Tamar Balkin
May 27, 20213 min read


Do The Employed Experience Financial Strain? And Is It My Problem?
"I work all night, I work all day to pay the bills I have to pay Ain't it sad? And still there never seems to be a single penny left for...
Tamar Balkin
May 20, 20214 min read


How Do We Reduce Rudeness At Work?
“We're not gonna take it Oh no, we ain't gonna take it We're not gonna take it anymore" We're Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister (click...
Tamar Balkin
May 7, 20214 min read


How do you motivate someone who doesn’t seem to care?
“She drives me crazy Like no one else She drives me crazy And I can't help myself” She Drives Me Crazy, by The Fine Young Cannibals...
Tamar Balkin
Apr 29, 20212 min read


Lest we forget
"We the families remember the fallen every day, yet it is comforting that on ANZAC day the nation commemorates their bravery with us.
Tamar Balkin
Apr 21, 20213 min read


Can Good Leadership Make You Healthier?
“Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin' And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive Ah, ha,...
Tamar Balkin
Apr 16, 20214 min read


Will Cultivating Gratitude Enhance A Leaders Humility And Wellbeing?
‘Whoa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I feel good, I knew that I would, now So good, so good, I got you Whoa! I feel nice, like...
Tamar Balkin
Apr 8, 20215 min read


Can Good Feedback Enhance Wellbeing?
Notwithstanding the articles and training there is a perception that feedback is fraught, and is therefore often avoided.
Tamar Balkin
Mar 19, 20213 min read


What did you do for International Women's day 2021?
“You can bend but never break me 'Cause it only serves to make me More determined to achieve my final goal And I come back even stronger...
Tamar Balkin
Mar 10, 20215 min read
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