Burnout: The Professional’s Nemesis and How to Outsmart It
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello Propel Her Community, You may have noticed we took a big break from publishing over the end of the year because… […]
Tag: #Leadership
Leadership in the Army: My Story
Reading Time: 3 minutes Last year, I was asked to speak to a group of APS and civilian women about my leadership experience in Army. Although […]
Shattering Identity Bias – An interview with Captain Mona Shindy CSC
Reading Time: 5 minutes Captain Mona Shindy is an accomplished Naval Officer – one of the first to serve on an Aussie warship. She wears many […]
It’s not up to her to solve: The competing demands of work and family
Reading Time: 8 minutes To improve the recruitment, retention and advancement of women, we need to remove structural barriers. And guess what? Doing so will be […]
The ABC of Diversity: Steps to Creating a Space for Change
Reading Time: 5 minutes I am currently serving with one of the most diverse organisations in the world – the United Nations. My role as a […]
Why Leadership Means Leaving on Time
Reading Time: 3 minutes An overused- but often cited- definition of leadership is “the art of influencing people to willingly achieve the team or organisational goal”. […]
Book Review – Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine a world where a patient goes to a clinic and gets prescribed highly addictive opioids because it is the end of […]
The Mediator Mindset: A Leader’s Guide to Conflict Resolution
Reading Time: 5 minutes This article is part of the Propel Her – Defence Women’s Leadership Series. There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and conflict […]
5 Fiction Books for Leadership Development
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fiction is an important element of every professional military education reading list. However, returning to the same handful of texts can make […]
The Value of Mentoring
Reading Time: 5 minutes Most ADF members don’t realise the value of mentoring until late in their careers – with the common reflection being ‘Why didn’t I do this sooner!?’ Mentoring can change your career and life trajectory. It can open up networks and opportunities beyond your immediate reach, and can give you the tools and confidence to develop and promote yourself.
Leadership and the Art of Smiling – Part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes So, if you have read Part 1 of this blog, you will know that emotions are transmitted from one person to another […]
Leadership and the Art of Smiling – Part 1
Reading Time: 5 minutes “Magic’s just science that we don’t yet understand” – Arthur C. Clarke How many times have you walked into the morning’s briefing […]
Prepare for Day One
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘Do not confuse Command with Leadership; command is a responsibility to the organisation and leadership is looking after your people so you […]
Mission Command: Competence, Assets and Risk
Reading Time: 2 minutes This article is a junior leader’s framework for mission command and complements Understanding Mission Command. Mission Command is a commander’s assessment of […]
Mission Command Algorithms: An Evolution of Artificial Intelligence & Combat Leadership
Reading Time: 5 minutes ‘There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of Artificial Intelligence’ Anyone in the military who has served […]
What is Modern Military Leadership? A Primer
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Australian Army senior leadership team has been articulating the need for our Army leadership style to evolve to take on a […]
Command and Leadership – Fit to Fight
Reading Time: 12 minutes “Australian Soldiers identify with their Battalion. It’s indeed their family: it leads, feeds, clothes, directs and exhausts them. Its veins are its […]
Leadership in Focus – Listen, Learn and Lead
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last week the Chief of Army came and spoke to the Royal Australian Armoured Corps’ Senior Leadership Group. His opening remarks immediately […]
Leadership in Focus – Emotional Intelligence, Leadership and Resilience
Reading Time: 6 minutes It was a popular belief in the past that to build a soldier, we must first break the individual down and re-build […]
Leadership in Focus – The Timeless Leadership Question
Reading Time: 3 minutes The frequently asked leadership question, ‘Are great leaders born or created?’ consistently creates vigorous, robust discussion. So what is the answer? Warren […]
Junior Leadership in the Australian Army
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do we know why it works or are we doing what we’ve always done? The current Australian Army leadership model is an […]
Time Wasted and Lessons Learnt
Reading Time: 10 minutes It takes considerable knowledge just to recognise the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell[1] Introduction The leadership, readiness, resilience, mental toughness […]
Episode 5 – Brigadier Mick Ryan AM
Reading Time: 2 minutes This podcast features great insights from Brigadier Mick Ryan AM. The podcast begins with Brigadier Ryan discussing his roles in the Australian Army […]
Episode 4 – David S. Maxwell
Reading Time: 2 minutes Chat with Dave Maxwell at Georgetown University to hear his thoughts on what the future holds for junior commanders. The podcast starts with […]
Episode 3 – T.X. Hammes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Discussion with T.X. Hammes at the National Defense University in Washington D.C including insights on broad spectrum bets for the future, structural […]
Episode 2 – David H. Ucko
Reading Time: 2 minutes David H. Ucko was interviewed at the National Defense University in Washington D.C. His latest book, co-authored with Robert Egnell, Counterinsurgency in […]
Episode 1 – Matthew Cavanaugh
Reading Time: < 1 minute Chat with Matthew Cavanaugh who was teaching the Military Strategy Course at the United States Military Academy West Point at the time. […]
For junior officers – who cares for your boss?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Junior officers know the ‘hurry up and wait’ phenomenon well. Common conversations during these delays range from the first thing you’ll eat […]
Using Social Media as a Junior Leader
Reading Time: 7 minutes Beginning-of-year mandatory briefs are filled with reminders of ‘what not to do’ from alcohol to safety. The social media brief usually delivers […]
Owning Your Professional Military Development – Junior Leaders
Reading Time: 5 minutes Doctrine Man recently penned the well-known military adage that “no one can manage your career better than yourself”. Deployments, top jobs and […]