Author Archive: Vera Herman
When you know that you aren’t living your true life – when you are in the wrong career, the wrong relationship, with the wrong friends, or in the wrong location – you can spend all your time and effort looking…
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People who are in businesses or jobs relatively unaffected by a year of lockdowns are finding themselves cashed up. Those who love to travel, well, they have found themselves with money to spend. And spend they do. The pandemic has…
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This month I want to touch on a very serious subject: Gaslighting. This is something I was the target of 10 or so years ago in an organisation I was with. At the time, I didn’t know that’s what was…
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Many years ago I went to a conference on corporate communications and I remember that one of the speakers asked us brainstorm a list on all the possible ways to get employees who were resistant to organisational direction or strategy…
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This week, Victoria’s Premier shared the roadmap to shift Victorians from our current Stage 4 Lockdown to a moving population and functioning economy by the end of the year. Now, whether you are supportive of the details of this particular…
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You know an organisation has done a good job in embedding their vision when you hear their leaders and their employees all using the same language to describe their company and its future. Written communications and conversations with leaders all…
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What do you get when you squeeze a lemon? Lemon juice, of course! So, what do you get when you squeeze a person, or in other words, put them under some level of pressure? You get whatever is inside of…
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When it comes to the dreams we have for our lives, the most common thing we say is, “I have a dream”, when in fact, when there is a true calling on our lives, it’s the dream that has us….
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In physics, resonance is the phenomenon in which a vibrating system drives another system on the same frequency to oscillate with greater amplitude. In plain English, this means that if two things are on the same frequency and one begins…
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I’ve been putting off posting over this Covid-19 period as there has been an absolute bombardment of press, social media posts, videos, and conversations which I simply did not want to add to. So instead, I want to give people…
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