Designing Organisations

2 December 2019

‘We’re too busy to do that right now’.

“To do two things at once is to do neither.” Publilius Syrus Put your hand up if competitive, financial, regulatory, shareholder, technological, environmental or political disruption is making your organisation... Read more...

16 August 2019

Don’t Waste Time on Talent Management

Before you have any type of talent discussion, you need to first have a standards discussion. Too often we see time wasted in talent meetings, performance discussions, recruitment profiling and... Read more...

31 May 2019

Teams are the Windows to your Organisation’s Culture

Just as ‘the eyes are the windows to the soul’, teams are the way to see the truths of your organisational culture.  So why do organisations spend inordinately more time... Read more...

16 May 2019

CASE STUDY: Organisational Change and Implementation in a National Media Organisation

Organisational Change in technology-dependent businesses can be challenging, particularly when it involves redesigning structures and work processes. Here’s a case study of how we helped a national, multi-media organisation change and... Read more...

26 October 2018

Demystifying Organisation Design

How to get it done right Why does getting organisation design right seem to be so challenging? We know of a lot of companies who see a need to redesign... Read more...

21 September 2018

What we know about Accelerating Team Performance

In previous posts, we have discussed why a focus on teams is critical to driving organisational performance and when to use the 7 P’s of Team Performance.  That leaves us to now to describe how you get... Read more...

6 September 2018

CASE STUDY: The most targeted Leadership Development Program we’ve seen

Our team have recently concluded an 18-month Leadership Development Program with a client that we feel has set a new benchmark in developing capability, culture and alignment in an ASX... Read more...

22 August 2018

Grandpa, what did you do during the War for Talent?

The War for Talent Back at the turn of the century, when McKinsey declared the War for Talent, I was what you’d call a middle manager. An ordinary corporate foot... Read more...

25 July 2017

Change leaders don’t believe in magic

When we decide to make changes to aspects of the organisational environment or how we go about doing business, we set out with the best and highest of intentions; aiming... Read more...

13 July 2017

Who are change champions and how can you spot them?

The Australian business landscape is littered with failed examples of organisational change. Each year we see a list of companies that have failed in the arena of managing and leading... Read more...

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