You may not have experienced a marathon before, but you don’t need to run 42.2km to know that it is hard work and many don’t make it. Stuart and I have been in the US with a client recently supporting them over a hard working week of strategic planning meetings.

Come on a short development journey with us. Grab a pen, a piece of paper and start thinking about what is important to you…what do you value in life?…What are your top 5 values? What you discover about them might surprise you!

“I know they are underperforming but they are struggling with depression. We might just have to leave the conversation for now.”

“I can’t talk to them about performance at work at the moment because they are having marriage problems.”

Commonly, these are the comments and attitudes of leaders and managers who genuinely care about others and who, in no way, want to cause further harm to people who are already suffering.

The ROCG Perth/Insight Group are all about helping their clients make wise financial decisions. They are a West Perth based financial services firm incorporating Tax Accounting, Financial Planning, Business Consulting, Lending , R&D services and other financial services. That financial decision often includes investigating whether it will produce an adequate return on investment.  So when it came to investing in it’s own cultural change and organisational development, ROCG Perth/Insight did not want to waste time and money in efforts that would have little or no long term impact on their business.

Last month we were privileged to have champion National Basketball League local player and team captain, Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist and league champion defender Damian Martin join us as guest speaker at our Oasis Business Breakfast.  What Damian shared related so well to the business and personal experiences of many of our attendees and the feedback about the event was fantastic.  Immediately after the event, Damian kindly emailed a bunch of thoughts that he really wanted to us to share that didn't make it into his interview.  We love his passion!

Oasis People and Culture focuses on building relational health and maturity that leads to high performance in organisations.  But how is relational health and maturity defined?  A number of factors point to whether an organisation is doing well or struggling in this area.

It was back in 2002 that I first heard of the term ‘coaching’ in something other than a sporting context.  Such was the place I was in personally and professionally at the time that once I had researched what coaching was I knew I needed it.