Growing potential
on purpose
Most workplaces never ask people for their best.
We do — then we build the frameworks, conversations and habits that make it stick.
Growing potential
Team Engagement Solutions
Every one of these is built around the team it's for — same principles, different room. Sharper thinking, real confidence, and ideas people actually act on. Here's what we run:
Quiet meetings. Recycled ideas. People going through the motions.
That's flat. And it's rarely a broken team, it's usually a team nobody's asked anything of in a while.
Most fixes start with alignment: everyone on the same page by morning tea, back to normal by the second Tuesday. We go the other way. Curiosity first. Then real thinking. Then the things people say in the corridor, said in the room.
Alignment comes last. And it holds, because nobody handed it to them.
Competent,
Not Confident
FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Most frontline managers get promoted for being good at the job, then are handed a team and left to work out the rest. Nobody teaches them how to give feedback that lands, run a conversation about performance, or say the hard thing without wrecking the relationship.
Plenty of programs will send them back feeling better. This one sends them back able to do it. Because it doesn't end at the workshop. It ends with each manager demonstrating the behaviours on their own team, against a standard we define with you.
Confidence follows competence. Never the other way round.
Urgent Beats Important.
Every Time.
PLANNING & PRIORITIES | ALL STAFF
Ambition was never the problem. Follow-through is. Everyone's day gets taken by whatever's loudest, and the work that would actually change something keeps sliding to next week.
Practical planning that survives a real workload: how to protect the time, how to decide what doesn't get done, and how to finish what you start.
Runs for any team, at any level: the shift, the office, the whole department.
Mentoring
Some things don't get solved in a room full of people. They get solved one conversation at a time.
Leadership Mentoring
ONE HOUR
Most leaders aren't missing capability. They're missing an hour with someone who'll actually name what's in the way.
DISC or Hogan Mentoring
TWO HOURS
You can probably describe your strengths. Harder to say how you come across on a bad day, to the person who reports to you. That's what this session is for.
Hogan-certified.
Scope Blog
What we think about leadership, and what people who do it for a living think of that.
Blog
Every one of Covey's 13 trust behaviours has a forgery. Not an opposite — a forgery, which is far more dangerous, because an opposite is easy to spot. Here's what your best behaviour turns into when you're under load, and why you're the last person who'll notice.
Ten years ago I published this article. One of the three secrets was already out of date, and I didn't notice. The 2026 revision.
There is one thing that, removed from a team, destroys it. Trust. Not strategy, not talent, not the org chart. Here are Covey’s thirteen behaviours that build it — refreshed with the research behind them, a corrected attribution, and one behaviour I’d now write differently after ten years.
Four behavioural styles, explained through a football club that shouldn't work and does. Roy, Keeley, Ted and Nate, and what each one costs a team when the pressure comes on.
Ever run a planning session that starts with a whiteboard full of everything that's wrong? There's a better way. SOAR is a strengths-based planning framework that swaps "what's broken" for "what's working" — and it changes the whole energy in the room. In this post we break down why SWOT isn't wrong, just tired, and how four simple questions can get your team building instead of defending. Read it, steal the questions, watch what happens.
Work out what a minute of you costs and you will start treating every interruption as theft. That instinct is the most expensive one you have. Cost is fixed. Yield is not.
In the first of our ‘For Health’s Sake!?!’ series Melanie Smith, nutritionist and health practitioner shares just how we are shrinking our brains living with stress! Let’s face it - nobody needs a small brain!
If you have been avoiding holding a coaching or performance conversation, then grab a coffee and enjoy this week's blog. One of the most powerful motivators at work is to feel that you are progressing and contributing to meaningful work. What separates highly effective leaders from average ones is their recognition of the power of coaching. So build our confidence and lead well!
Should you get a coach or a mentor? The honest answer is neither, on its own. Six seats you should be filling, one question that tells you which kind of help you actually need, and why the adviser who agrees with you is the least useful one you have.
Employee engagement is critical! This week's blog gives you 6 strategies to drive employee engagement. Start your engines and check your levels of engagement.
Tired of doing everyone else’s work and not your own!? Then sharpen your focus. Don’t be busy be productive. Take a minute and read this week’s blog to make sure YOU are the priority.
Nobody likes a porcupine, so why do we let them stay? Nine steps to move their behaviour up — or move them off the team. Revised August 2026, because tip nine used to tell you to shrug off a bullying claim.
Most team plans are written once and never looked at again. Here is what separates the teams that deliver from the teams that just planned.
MJ recently spent time with Donna Quinn, hospitality entrepreneur and now owner of Coco Belle Espresso Bar in Mt Pleasant. Read Donna's thoughts on the Perth Market and how she escaped the daily grind launching her Gold Plate finalist Espresso Bar Coco Belle. Engaging with her local market and delivering on the freshest food is the business strategy behind Coco Belle's success.
MJ spends time with Neil Randall, acclaimed footballer, Commissioner of the WAFC, Past President and Director of Subiaco Football Club, owner of the Paddington Ale House, President of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Hotels Association and Board Member for Hostplus, hearing his thoughts on leadership and the state of play in the Perth Hospitality Market.
It's time for your first quarter check in! How are you travelling with the goals you established in January? Are you running on 1/4 full, or 1/4 empty? Check how you are measuring up and explore the basics of SMART business planning. Planning shouldn't be daunting; it should be fun!
MJ recently spent time with Andrew McIntyre from Lot Twenty (a bespoke small bar in Northbridge) gaining his thoughts on the state of the Perth hospitality market and his secrets on empowering and developing an incredible team. Enjoy the read; we think Andrew, his team and his establishment are truly spectacular!
Who does that?!?! Find out as MJ shares her reflections and learnings on her journey from unfit and unhealthy to #beawesome
In the first of our series on smallBIZperation, we spend time with Louise Atkinson, owner of Whispering Sands Horse Play Centre. If you have never been counselled by a horse, then you are missing out on one of life's magic moments!
As MJ turns 50 she shares the 10 most influential lessons she has learned. How many do you agree with?
Mark Daniels is truly inspirational! Follow his journey as he shares with us how he went from near-death to participating in marathons in under a year; a thought provoking and inspiring article on leadership, the power of goal-setting and grit. In Mark's words "Screw 'Disabled', Screw Normal; only you know what you are capable of."
You can no longer reply on talent alone! As our series continues, we spend time talking all things talent management with Stan Rolfe, Principal at Qi Talent Solutions and Managing Editor at ATCHub. Explore the future of recruitment, so you can prepare for a change in the employment model.
As our series on the changing workforce continues, we examine just what it means to be entering the exponential age; an era of dramatic change that will revolutionise many industries. How will you be affected? Be prepared!
We spent time with Gia Le, Entrepreneur and author of Perthspective, asking what she thought a change in the job market would mean for the Independent Worker. Her thoughts and insight give an interesting vantage to our research on the changing workforce.
MJ was fortunate to spent time with Nick Lloyd, awarded the WA Australian Hotels Association Award for Best Venue Manager in 2016. Nick shares his thoughts on leadership and learning, the state of the Perth Market and what it takes to run a successful venue.
40% of Australian jobs will be obsolete in the next 10-15 years! This article explores why and what you can do to prepare yourself. Enjoy!
Curious to know the definition of 'T&T'? Look no further! Read how 'T&T' evolved, its definition and see an example in action. 'T&T' a leadership capability you can ill afford to be without! Enjoy.
I have sat the same behavioural assessment four times over seventeen years. My natural style barely moved. What did change was how hard I was working to be someone else at work.