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This podcast by Francis Lynch sometimes has guests and has comments and musings on issues in the social justice, leadership, and community service spaces. It would be great if you would click the subscribe button for this Podcast in whatever Podcast Player you're using, and you'll get each new episode that I release.
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Gratitude is a powerful emotion that can have a significant impact on your mental and physical health, relationships, and overall wellbeing. By understanding the science behind gratitude, practicing gratitude daily, and cultivating gratitude in our lives, we can experience the many benefits of this powerful emotion. So why not start today and begin…
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Mindfulness has been shown to have a positive impact on various aspects of our lives, including work. By reducing stress, improving focus and attention, building better relationships, and increasing creativity and innovation, mindfulness can help to improve employee engagement in the workplace. There are many different mindfulness practices that ca…
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I like things to go the way that I expect them to – most of the time anyway. A predictable life with lots of routines and habits means I don’t have to think about every little thing that I do. What I hadn’t appreciated until recently was how these routines help me find more meaning in my life. Not in the sense of helping me find the “Meaning OF lif…
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In this episode Matt Jackman and Harmonie Jackman, brother and sister, talk about their experiences during the lengthy lockdown periods in Melbourne during two waves of Covid-19 in 2020. Matt and Harmonie both live with Bi-Polar and discuss with me how thier support services have adapted to the changed circumstances this year. They talk about how t…
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In this episode I speak to Dave Pugh, the CEO at Anglicare NT, who has worked in the community sector for many years across Australia. Working in Darwin and regional parts of the Northern Territory during the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020 has been quite different to the experiences of other parts of Australia. Join me as Dave and I talk about how Covid…
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Margaret Augerinos is the CEO at the Centre for Non Violence and has worked in leadership in the family violence area for many years. Margaret has led CNV through some major changes in 2020, starting new services, advertising their services in the mainstream media when referrals significantly dropped, and keeping all their staff connected and engag…
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Ann-Maree Davis is the CEO of Amicus, a disability support organisation, working in central Victoria. She has been the CEO for 12 years and has made significant changes in the way they do their work, including the transition to the NDIS for much of their funding."The period between March and May we had about 70% of participants suspend all support.…
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Karyn Walsh AM is the CEO of Micah Projects in Queensland. She has been leading the organisation for many years and also led many sector projects at a state and national level. Her commitments have included leading Chairing the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, and being a past President of the Queensland Council of Social Services. In this …
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Dr Nicky Howe leads a community aged care and community services organisation in Perth, Western Australia. We discuss how Southcare has adapted to the Covid-19 challenges.Whilst WA has not had a second wave of Covid, Southcare is acting as if they are in a high risk environment and has built its response as if they have Covid positive customers.…
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This is the speech that I gave as the opening of the ACOSS Conference in June 2014. This was only a few weeks after the horror first Budget of the Abbott Government. Many in the community sector were shocked at the attack on low income people and were afraid of the consequences for vulnerable people and themselves. An associated blog article is her…
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When people join an organisation, there’s usually some reason why they want to be there. Sometimes it’s just a job, but often it’s about connecting to the purpose of the organisation or the values of the organisation.The big WHY – why does this organisation matter, why does it do what it does? Those things can be attractive. But the way that things…
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I was surprised when I was reading the Australian Institute of Company Directors report recently, it was a report on Not For Profit Governance and Performance in 2015. The report was saying that one of the factors was that 8% of all boards in the non-profit sector have discussed winding up in the last year. I was surprised by that. I know there’s b…
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This episode refers to the benefits that I have received from using the Via Character Strengths test, and my belief that it is helpful for leaders to know how to use both their signature strengths and their middle and lesser strengths. The Via Institute on Character can be found at http://www.viacharacter.org/www/ The Character Strengths Test can b…
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