Some of you may know I am a big fan of taking regular retreats to review my life on both a personal and business level. These are generally solo trips for a night or two to an idyllic seaside or bush environment.

I also adopt slow productivity in my work which focuses on economically expending energy in a mindful and purposeful manner. It’s about seeing life as a series of short sprints rather than one long marathon.

In this blog, I share some valuable insights on the power of retreats and adopting slow productivity into you game plan.

We face significant global and domestic issues in this post-pandemic business landscape.

Please understand me highlighting these issues is not intended to be pessimistic or negative. I simply prefer to be realistic in surveying the horizon to observe what is coming at us, before it’s too late.

In this blog, I identify the big challenges I see facing business owners and their teams in the year ahead.

In Part 2 of this two-part Blog, I continue to explore how the balance of power in business has shifted from employer to employee post-pandemic.

In Part 1, I outlined the changes and factors leading to the balance of power shifting.

Now in Part 2, I workshop some practical areas business owners (employers) should focus on to combat this shift in the balance of power.

In this two-part Blog, I discuss how the balance of power in business has shifted from employer to employee post-pandemic. In Part 1, I outline the changes and factors leading to the balance of power shifting. In Part 2, I workshop what business owners (employers) can do to tackle this shift in the balance of power.

Prior to the pandemic, employers had held the balance of power over employees. There had been no real wages growth for 8-10 years and Australia was close to full employment.

During the pandemic, and post-pandemic, there were emerging factors that have led to there being a shift in the balance of power.

Now employees have their hand on the tiller and are controlling the agenda.

Mental health has become one of the greatest challenges we face in society.

In this blog, I share many of the insights I’ve observed in working with literally hundreds of business owners.

A caveat here is key. I am not a clinical professional in this area so I will not be presenting clinical advice as a ‘bush doctor’.

My aim is to share observational feedback in working for decades with business owners in their inner sanctum. Here I share some practical tactics and strategies I’ve seen business owners benefit from, when faced with mental health issues.

There is an indelible connection between mental health and business health.

Business owners constantly say they want change.

But how does change occur?

The answer is friction.

Friction precedes change.