The power of our imagination is phenomenal. It is often an underused source of helping us navigate our way through the challenges of life.  This is especially true in the workplace.  Quite often…

“Although the goals in this book are important, it’s really your ideas, talent, and energy that will keep Valve shining in the years ahead. Thanks for being here. Let’s make great…

This year’s recognition as an Aon Hewitt Best Employer has meant much more to Hilti Australia because in a soft construction market everyone had to work much harder to retain high employee…

Human beings belong to a gregarious species. We live in groups, we organise ourselves in communities, we develop language, rules and technology to communicate with each other, and usually, we work…

Its not the change - its how you do it!

I recently held a workshop which had a section around organisational change and…

There has been a great deal of criticism of Agency recruiters lately, quite a bit of it from…

St. Nicholas is Santa’s real name. St. Nicholas, who was a 4^th Century bishop in Turkey, is patron saint of…

For all our recruitment tests and practices in HR, the problem of psychopaths in the workplace remains a problem that’s…

I planted an olive grove for my old age. I imagined friends and family gathering under the dense shade of the silver trees, sitting at antique wooden trestle tables spread with white tablecloths…

There are a lot of silly tests on the market which label people, many of which aren’t validated scientifically (no matter what the publishers say) but are nonetheless used to “explain away”…

You are what you measure, what gets measured gets done….’If we want to change what CEOs care about, we should change what we measure’ (Dan Ariely, HBR 2009). Familiar mantras in management, until…

Most of us in business or other organisations belong to LinkedIn, and many of us participate in discussion groups related to our fields and…

Last week I wrote about listening and asking the right questions is the key to solving many of the issues in the workplace (and more broadly, life!).   I made the point that the counter point to…

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of speaking to Bo Hanson. Bo is a former Olympic athlete who represented Australia in rowing for 13 years. In 1992 he became the youngest-ever Olympian rowing…

The Kelly Skills at Work 2010 study uncovered a serious skills shortage in the Banking and Finance Sector in the Asia Pacific region.…

There is an increasing awareness in organisations that unconscious bias impacts decisions relating to men and women and that this is an important area for change, but less is known about what…