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…
Category Archives: Corporate
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Apr
Apr
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…
Change, Corporate, Thought Leadership p
Future of work – Transitioning worker’s skills as a priority.
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Feb
Feb
The world of work is changing and this is happening more rapidly than most of us can possibly imagine. For some, it is about not having time to take notice, for others the prospects are too alarming or irrelevant. For many, they simply don’t have access to the information. As of June 2017, 49{01332a80e2e652688e18927fa9a6162580960d47bc08263a3993439d666dcd52} of…
Career Planning, Corporate, Work Life Balance
Does promising a future of less reliable employment pass the pub test?
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Jan
Jan
The defining question many journalists ask politicians on any campaign trail is; ‘Do your policies pass the pub test?’ If a politician went to any pub in Australia, from inner city Melbourne to the back of Bourke, and they asked the people in that pub, this simple question—would Australian’s prefer reliable or less reliable employment—what…
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Feb
Feb
Humans can disassociate. It is a powerful psychological mechanism that can help or hinder the human condition depending on the circumstances. One of the troubling trends in our society is that many leaders are dissociating from the consequences of their decisions on employees and society? It is helping drive businesses to look at short term…
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Feb
Feb
There are over three billion people in the global workforce. Of those jobs, it is anticipated that over 40 to 50{01332a80e2e652688e18927fa9a6162580960d47bc08263a3993439d666dcd52} percent will disappear within a few years. Either blind-sided or blinded by the allure of what technology can offer, governments and businesses have to date, showed few initiatives, to ensure the future employment of…
05
Feb
Feb
Why is developing confidence in people a strategic advantage for businesses of the future. The future of work is focused on technology and the importance of people being capable of being innovative and entrepreneurial. According to discussions at Davos in 2017: Forty-seven percent of jobs are expected to be automated within the next decade. By…
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Jan
Jan
For the modern worker, flexible work places have been promoted as the holy grail for work life balance. For many this is correct. Flexible work places have assisted employees arrange their lives in a way that is mutually beneficial for themselves, their families and their employer. For a growing number of others, this is not…
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Nov
Nov
An anecdotal story. There were very few women in corporate Australia, in senior positions in the 1990’s. I know because I was one of that minority. At the time I became intrigued about why there were so few women in business. Over time almost through osmosis, I decided to do my own anecdotal research as…
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Oct
Oct
In their hearts many Australians know there is a looming employment problem in Australia. It is now almost laughable that the government puts out unemployment statistics that tell the masses that the unemployment rate is falling. If you look behind the magic number, the fall in the unemployment rate is driven by the drop in…