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A course designed for your organisation’s executive team. This workshop is designed for the leaders and decision makers of your organisation and is ideally suited as a lead-in to a strategic review and strategic planning conference. Contact us for more information regarding The First XI workshop.

DISC profiling is a powerful workplace behaviour model. It can be used very successfully as an additional recruitment tool to ensure you are hiring someone with the natural disposition to do the job well, and also as a powerful team-building tool. When teams understand each other’s profiles they are able to work more cohesively, therefore enabling more collaboration and productivity due to a greater understanding of the people involved. DISC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness and Compliance) profiling involves assessing an individual’s personality and behavioural traits aimed at building stronger, more fulfilling relationships. In an organisational sense, DISC training and assessments are...

This course is designed to help create and maintain a sustainable organisational culture. “Why should I care about future generations? What have they ever done for me?” – attributed to acting icon Woody Allan. The notion of sustainability has been with us for some time. Management thinkers such as Drucker, Deming, Handy, Weisbord, McGregor, Senge, Pratt and many others have written great works on this topic. The need for humans to seek ways to make our lives, our institutions and our planet sustainable for future generations is paramount, and the role of the organisation in achieving sustainability is crucial. It...

In case you missed it, two recent studies have again put leadership in Australian organisations in the spotlight. Both the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) survey, and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) survey, have highlighted the skills gap in the crucial area of leadership and have rated our leadership as average at best and even less than average, in key areas of people development. That’s the issue – but what do we do about it? We do know that an improvement in leadership skills is a proven way of improving the effectiveness and productivity of our organisations. With over...

This five-day leadership and management program, delivered (typically) as 1 full day module per month, is offered publicly as well as being adopted in-house. Today, more than ever, improving productivity and remaining competitive requires full support of all employees working as a team. Engaging employees in your business through shared vision and values, charges up productivity and is like moving from second gear into overdrive. The critical link between a corporate strategy and the people that make it happen is the middle manager and the first-line team leader, who are often selected for their technical skills and expertise. However, many find...