The premise of the game is straightforward. Four players cook together as a team, serving up the orders displayed in the top left corner. One person runs vegetables to and fro, another cuts vegetables and cooks them, while the third person plates and serves the food, and the last person does the dishes, natural right? 

•Giving generously of my time and attention.
•Listening with empathy.
•Asking great questions.

As a nation of big consumers, the COVID-19 pandemic has confronted us with changes that have not been experienced bar the treasured few who remember the world wars.

In 1991, Hawke pledged to attend the Rio Earth Summit Conference, a landmark global warming think tank. However, Australia never attended the Summit as priorities shifted under his successor Paul Keating’s Government. 

As leaders, we need to be reinventing ourselves every day to respond to our rapidly changing environment, and this is no different for business. With business strategies (and budgets) for this financial year in shatters, to survive right now you need to innovate rapidly.

No longer pigeonholed for social networking, platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have been hailed a critical leadership tool. The use of social media during past and present crises have helped reduce environmental damage, loss of infrastructure and life along with raising much-needed funds for rebuilding.   

Many office-based staff shifted to working from home with minimal transition time or support. Amidst this change, tips and tricks for working from home, technology upgrades and training became our focus.     

I have spent a career training and preparing leaders to master communication. The following advice will not go astray post-COVID-19 as experts predict a major portion of the workforce will continue to work from home in a post-COVID-19 era.

On February 7th, 2020, a landmark legal case settled awarding Adelaide lawyer, Gordon Cheng a $750,000 defamation payout. Mr Cheng had received an onslaught of defamatory reviews from an independent party who had never been a client. Mr Cheng suffered significant mental health issues and financial hardship, losing approximately 80 per cent of his former clients.