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…
Category Archives: Executive Coaching
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May
May
Incentives for Corporate Executives (ICE) acts like a drug that can’t be satisfied. Unhappily for the Big Banks, they find themselves in the firing line, under attack to ‘fix’ a culture gone wrong, a greedy culture that has paid scant regard to both clients and good governance. But is there another conversation about an equally greedy and distorting culture…
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Oct
Oct
A passenger was booking his bags in at an airport and gave the person checking in his bags, a lot of unnecessary abuse. The baggage handler did not seem at all concerned. When the next person in line said to the baggage handler you seemed very calm about the abuse, he said he may be…
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Sep
Sep
I recently went on a short holiday to western Queensland and as a part of my travels I went and visited a lake. I remember it was a glorious winter’s day and as I was wandering along the shoreline, I, by chance, had a conversation with a middle age local woman; let’s say her name…
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Jul
Jul
I am a white Australian, relatively intelligent female with average looks and being born into humble beginnings. Have known what it is like to have only $300 and limited prospects. Worked my way from nurse, midwife to HR Directive. First went to University at 28. Been regarded as “the experiment” when I was the first…
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May
May
Introduction. I have spent hours writing an article on employee engagement and at the end of it I realised that Employee Engagement is passing its use by date. The world of work is changing dramatically. There should be no expectations by employers that employees will be so absorbed by their work, that they will use…
Acknowledgement. The big “A” word is one of the most significant things we can do when managing people, yet how often do we consider its importance, forget about it or stuff it up completely? How often do we think about acknowledgement as the “big things”, like the awards night rather than all the “little things”…
Career Planning, Change, Executive Coaching, Leadership
Are we addicted to ICE? (Incentives for Corporate Executives)
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Feb
Feb
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…
Change, Customer Service, Executive Coaching, Leadership
High Tech High Touch – A key principle in the digital age.
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Jan
Jan
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…
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Nov
Nov
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…
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