Peter James: Leadership and Management Summary: As organisations grow, the level of complexity grows accordingly, and the division of tasks increases. As this happens, don’t lose sight of the fact that some activities still need to sit across management as a whole -they should not be delegated or departmentalised wholesale as the organisation grows. Leadership [...]
In these times of confusion, worry and stress, leadership counts. How you react and behave when the pressure is on will give others insight on your leadership abilities. Holding the title becomes irrelevant, people are looking for leadership action and language. Around the world we are starting to see how our political ‘leaders’ are behaving [...]
Handling conflict or tension arising from: words that should not have been said, faulty assumptions about why someone has behaved the way they have, disagreement about decisions made, differences in personality, beliefs and backgrounds, or ambiguity in role and direction is never easy, especially if you are a party in the conflict. However, a conflict [...]
Q & A with Eric Schwarz on the Change Diagnostic Index What is the Change Diagnostic Index? The Change Diagnostic Index© (CDI) identifies and measures behaviors, perceptions, and attitudes that emerge in a collection of individuals in response to a change initiative. The index provides a monitor of an organisation's ability to function effectively [...]
What is the Changing Gears program? In a nutshell Changing Gears is about celebrating our ageing workforce, transitioning them from full-time work with dignity and assisting their employer organisations with that process. It has evolved over several years and we work across the country and across all sectors. We've had around 7000 mature-age employees [...]
For such a topical subject, it is surprising how little organisations are paying attention to it. Is it because its not seen as an operation imperative? Are people oblivious to the consequences? Or is it just on the ‘too hard’ basket. Many organisations we speak to are very ‘intellectually’ interested in investigating the issue, but [...]
Effective Facilitation Effective facilitation consists of inputs (actions) by one or more persons that help groups achieve their goals and maintain or improve their competencies to achieve their goals. A skilled facilitator can add an enormous amount of value to a team meeting where outcomes are needed. Those outcomes could include actions, decisions, mutual understanding [...]
Our coaching spans all levels of organisations and I was working with a ‘Middle Manager’ the other day and the question came up, what is middle management – what is the role? It’s an interesting question, having worked with many organisations I see this layer of people between the workforce and senior management. In the [...]
Have you been offered a promotion? Is it taking you out of your technical area into leadership management? ......not so fast..... Have you actually considered what this means and looks like? You have fantastic technical skills, you’re the number one worker in your team or group and you’ve been offered the role of supervisor, team [...]
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or are already, in a state of requiring aged care support. This represents over 20% of the current population (24 Million) [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: