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Improving your IT&T team culture and performance - February 4, 2013
Ambitious deadlines, multiple vendors, large stakeholder groups and huge variance between expert opinion reflect just some of the challenges facing IT&T teams. The pressure to master these... read more
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Leadership lessons from well executed Scrum - October 29, 2012
Scrum is a powerful project management process that balances the complexity of programming and project urgency, with end users changing their business requirements as they learn more and understand... read more
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Don’t be a ‘Yahoo!’: 4 steps for avoiding serious succession problems - October 3, 2012
Five CEOS in 5 years. If history is any gauge, the chance that the corporate Board of Yahoo! have picked the right CEO candidate is slim. Yahoo! lacked the necessary vision and processes for engaging... read more
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Restructuring: shift from a survive to thrive focus - October 3, 2012
"We need to restructure" strikes an emotional cord for anyone from the boardroom to the lunchroom in good times and in bad. Job cuts, job change, relocations and a higher workload may all... read more
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Supporting your team through redundancy - October 3, 2012
There has been substantial news coverage recently about public sector and government owned corporations needing to reduce staffing numbers and make various roles redundant. To date, media attention... read more
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Coaching for Leadership Success - June 19, 2012
For many of us coaches are the people who help the Queensland State of Origin team win repeatedly or help our legendary Australian swimmers outperform other competitors from around the world in the... read more
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Workplace bullying – what’s in a name? - June 19, 2012
We are frequently asked to assist with complaints of bullying or harassment, yet once the story unfolds, we often find that the situation would be better described as a deterioration of behaviour... read more
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Is Change Management on your Enterprise Agreement Radar? - March 13, 2012
Since Enterprise Agreements (EAs) were introduced to Australia in 1991, employers, employees and unions have gone to great measures to influence what they perceive the best possible outcome to be.... read more
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The costs of disengaged employees and how employee support can help - December 13, 2011
Employee engagement matters Think about the companies where most people would love to work – it might be Google, 3M, or Intel. They are world-class organisations known for excellence in product... read more
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National Psychology Week - October 3, 2011
National Psychology Week from the 13th to 19th November is just around the corner, with the focus being on Managing Stress, Health and Wellbeing. Workplace stress is a response that many people... read more
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Why don’t people just buy-in to great ideas? - June 8, 2011
Every day we produce over 70,000 thoughts. This suggests a high probability of generating new ideas in the workplace. However, "game changing" ideas remain few and far between. In order to... read more
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How to turn innovation into earnings - June 8, 2011
“How do I blow away my Competitors through innovation?” “How do I source the Steve Jobs of Apple or the Jeff Bezos of Amazon?” These are questions that stump those senior... read more
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Recruiting Generation Y - June 8, 2011
Current research indicates Generation Y respect employers who provide meaningful work and clear career progression while also maintaining strong work-life balance. They value training and development... read more
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The Livingstones Coaching Approach - March 11, 2011
Coaching remains one of the most effective investments in developing your key staff and managers. The reason for this is that it allows the coachee to focus exclusively on their skills, their... read more
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Achieving New Years resolutions: planning and resilience - March 10, 2011
The start of a New Year is traditionally the time for individuals and organisations to re-evaluate their priorities for the coming year, but this year between floods, storms, earthquakes and cyclones,... read more
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Resilience for life - March 10, 2011
Resilience – we’ve been hearing about it constantly in recent times. One could be forgiven for thinking that it’s just another “buzz” word for dealing with adversity or... read more
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A10 Talent Survey 2010 - October 29, 2010
Click here for a copy of the A10 Talent Survey 2010 - Solving the people retention problem in the war for talent. read more