CASE STUDY. A new client came to me as both a consulting and recruitment solution as they were moving into the final stages of their strategic plan and that was about integrating vertically. As part of their brief they stated what they were doing, how they were doing it and the people they needed. Listening…
There are many tools that can help break away from fixed thinking, the negative impact of paradigms on new thinking, the negative effect of group and pre-emptive thinking abundant in Command and Control negative environments. The topics below are selected at random as somewhere to start. It could be argued that there is no specific…
Meeting maybe the biggest Leadership challenge of not only this decade or century but potentially all time is the ability to work on The ability for leaders to listen The ability for leaders to ‘really’ share decision making The ability of those under management to find ways to break through The belief that people under…
Definitions-Contrarian: A person who takes an opposing view, especially one who rejects the majority opinion, as in economic matters www.dictioary.com A contrarian is defined as a person who opposes or rejects popular opinion. Despite most people conforming to social norms simply out of laziness to go against the grain if anything else, some people remain resistant, developing…
Destined for War, Can America and the China escape the ‘Thucydides’ trap*? Graham Allison. An informative and chilling read, somewhat summarised as early as page 24/364 in “China is sucking the Southeast Asian countries into their economic system because of the vast market and growing purchasing power. Japan and South Korea will inevitably be sucked…
Don’t ‘manage out’(sack/fire/dismiss/make redundant) an underperforming or poor behaving employee – repatriate them! Unless your system was seriously flawed when you defined the position, when you (or people you trusted with the assignment) proceeded through the recruitment process through to engagement, the performance reviews etc, at some stage this employee had been useful, maybe even…
Everyone is so astonished with the revelations re Rathjen! Equally, the Berejiklian/Maguire saga another example. There are loads of skeletons everywhere, in sport, in business, in families … and 99% of the time, someone, if not lots of people know; and do nothing! Then there is the game blame, the fault, the guilt, the distasteful…
We are all available to medical instances, one being STROKE! Accordingly, I take this opportunity to share – Stroke has a new indicator. They say if I email this to ten people, I stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along? Blood Clots/Stroke – They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue STROKE: Remember…
Skills Matrix /performance management– Skills Matrix – this is about dissecting a job position into categories and tasks, then using various evaluation methods, painting a picture of competence as to each of the processes within a task. This enables more effective delegation and much more effective performance review and general recognition of a person’s worth….
Job Description IT Support Officer (Level 2/3) Will be working between office and customer locations Full Time Position Be part of a growing team of professionals Share our success – join the team now and grow with the company IT Support Tech position based between customer sites and office. Our office is in Adelaide CBD. The…
