Would you sell Bessie? Have we as a society considered what the social and economic impacts will be to our society when both government and private companies continue to make employees redundant at the current rate of @ 400,000 employees a year? Of those employees being made redundant the redundancy packages will continue to get…
ICE is addictive and doesn’t solve our problems, so why do we persist? People need to be paid adequately and fairly as the old adage says a “fair days work for a fair days pay. This is fundamental. What is not fundamental is, the remuneration system that promotes greed self-interest and short-term thinking. Interestingly, a…
The principle of ensuring both a High Tech High Touch philosophy in the digital age is a principle that will serve us well in both our personal and professional lives. It is too easy to centralise, computerise, analyse, digitalise and misplace the importance of human interactions. It is not an intentional strategy but an evolving…
The Virus analogy is a useful framework to help people in organisations influence and accelerate the desired change. The principle is how you can infect as many people, as quickly as possible, so the change that is being introduced is effective and sustainable. The great storytellers are often those that use powerful imagery to provoke…
Some years ago, early each morning before I went to work, my friend Brenda and I ran around the Botanical Gardens in Sydney. As we did so, we shared stories predominantly around of our lives including numerous work stories. I was a GM of HR at the time and Brenda was a Chemical Engineer. It…
As a part of my executive coaching practice, I understand just how important confidence is when achieving organisational and career goals. Competence in itself is not enough; Confidence is a critical enabler like a key is in a lock. Research shows that men and women in business are equally competent, however women are not as…
Quotas appear to be a necessary evil to enable more women to rise to senior positions in the workplace in Australia. For one reason only, nothing else seems to have worked. Frantic activity is being generated to meet gender quotas. However in this frenetic pursuit we need to ensure that people who obtain senior positions…
To reach the dizzy heights of senior management we know that it is important to consistently focus on the job and deliver. It is about deliverables, and the quality and detail of those deliverables. As life becomes more complex many of us are balancing several balls in the air at one time, and therefore being…
As a woman if you thought getting through the glass ceiling was difficult, can you imagine how you might feel if you inadvertently fell though a glass trap door in the very ceiling you aspired to. The story I am about to share is not a unique story just one that is not often told…
Employee Surveys. Organisations spend significant effort preparing, conducting and evaluating employee surveys? The espoused purpose is primarily to understand how engaged their employees are, how healthy the culture is and how competent their managers are. The premise is “happy and engaged” employees are more productive and consequently will ensure more company profits. This is good…