Many organisations are ploughing unprecedented investments into purchasing products to analyse and monitor every aspect of people’s actions and behaviours in the workplace. Workforce Productivity Big data is enabling big money to be made. Companies are making big promises that their products will improve workforce productivity. This may indeed be true, however, is there enough…
The industry most of us think of when we say mining is digging material out of the ground, like coal. For others it may be mining our personal digital data. However, how many of us would think of mining our voices for data? Yes, a future gold mine is analysing our voices. Billions of dollars…
What two things could you do to help build or regain social trust? Everyone seems to have a story about why they don’t trust our major institutions like banks, governments and even our education and legal systems. In everyday conversation we express our collective lack of trust of the proverbial bastards. Our most trusted traditional…
After I spoke with Accenture’s men and women at International Women’s Day, I had many requests to share two concepts. The River which I commenced my talk with and A Time to Risk which I concluded it with. Enjoy the contemplation. The River. I want you to imagine you are standing at the edge of…
When I first heard the term side hustle, I automatically thought of the 1930’s with a shady gangster hustling people for money. I was wrong. A side hustle today is a trendy new term referring to a job you can work in addition to your more permanent job. To have a “side hustle” or in…
Independent Contractors. Should they be a part of your inclusion strategy? Like many young girls I remember being seduced by the wonderous world of acting and dreaming about glamourous clothes and handsome young men sweeping me off my feet. For a moment there I was wrapped up in this romantic Cinderella like delusion. The bubble…
Technology allows many people, particularly white-collar workers to work from anywhere at any time. The ideal work model being promoted is people blending both their work and private lives. They can choose when and how they work in a 24/7 period, just as long as they get the work done. It is promoted as both…
I want you to imagine you are in a meeting about how your business can reduce costs and one person says ‘Let’s waterfall ‘. You have never heard the term before so you look to the person who used the term and asks them to explain. What is Waterfalling? There is an uncomfortable moment where…
Have you ever wanted to give someone a genuine compliment; perhaps a stranger on the street or on a train about something they were wearing or something kind you observed them doing, but have stopped yourself for whatever reason and then the moment had passed? In contrast, have you ever felt quietly delighted when a…
A process to help facilitate discussion and align business responsibilities with future workforce planning. “Over the past 25 years, 1 in 10 men who lost their job due to big technological shifts never worked again. Today 4 out of 10 unskilled men don’t participate in the workforce.” Economist Andrew Charlton This statistic is an unintended…