A few awesome tips I took away from the last day of our senior enlisted leadership symposium. 1. Take ownership of your wellbeing. Build resilience into yourself that can carry you all the way through life. Ensure everyone on your team is doing the same. 2. Your workplace culture is measurable. What we think, what we say, what we do. Deliberately go out of your way to ensure your workplace culture empower people and lift them up. 3. Lead with humanity to ensure you are the best in your profession. Work and fight as a team. If we harm someone our effect falls to zero. Refer to points 1 and 2 to ensure no one ever gets harmed. 4. Be ready to fail. Accept failure, learn and move on fast.

The opportunity to meet so many senior leaders in one day brings me so much gratitude. @Daniel Halls you may feature in tonight’s episode of Easty adventures. In short, every senior leader I have come across has bucket loads of emotional intelligence, empathy, kindness, listening skills, just being an awesome person. Communities like yours that highlight the importance of human skills and actually teach them is such an under utilised arena.

What a huge day. Chief of Defence Force and Secretary of Defence talked about the strategic picture for Australia. Lots of China, Ukraine, Southeast Asia, south-west Pacific and what it means for our beautiful country and defence force My primary takeaway - just because we’re senior enlisted leaders, doesn’t mean we know everything that’s going on. There’s always plenty to learn. Never stopped learning, never stop working to understand your people and what your contribution can do for the wider organisation. Today’s about Operations and what the defence force contribute to globally. Tomorrow is about the people, which I’m really looking forward to.

Just a heads up that you can probably expect a fair amount of leadership content to come in this week. I’m off to Canberra and a leadership forum with the senior enlisted personnel from the Australian Defence Force. Having the opportunity to attend events like this one is not a responsibility that I take lightly. Being in a position where you have the responsibility to gather intelligence from your work colleagues, take it to leaders of influence, and return with answers that are going to help shape the workforce culture is something that I really get excited about.

Most people don’t need more time. They need fewer distractions. You’ll always find time for what matters — family, health, purpose — if you stop wasting it on what doesn’t. 👉 What’s one distraction you know you need to cut out this week?