Embracing the Right to Disconnect as sovereign of your workscape

Work and life used to be very separate. But for many people now, those lines are blurry. Australia’s Right to Disconnect legislation (PDF) (effective 26 August 2024) offers a welcome reset. This law protects employees from work-related contact outside agreed hours. But more than a legal safeguard, it’s an invitation to reclaim agency. You get…

Negotiating for your dream workscape

In the ever-evolving landscape of work, the lines between our professional and personal lives are blurring, giving rise to a new breed of career-minded individuals. We are the dreamers who seek to lead ourselves through the maze of work life and decisions, striving for a harmonious blend of a fulfilling job, side hustles, and the…

Creating safe spaces to inhabit in your workscape

Most conversations about psychological safety at work focus on how a leader will create conditions within a team context. That’s a great conversation to have. However, it’s not the only conversation to have.   Safety defined by self ‘Safety’ can be experienced in different flavours – influenced by personality, background and past experiences. To participate…

The perks of being unavailable

“The perks of being unavailable” is the title [1] of a podcast episode in the series, What’s Essential by Greg McKeown. Greg and his work came to my attention last year when I read his book: Essentialism, The discipline of doing less. A key takeaway for me from the book was about boundaries. In particular,…