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Organisational Values – do they hold any currency for your business?
Organisational values (or the idea of them) began to surface in the early 1970’s, but whose origins most likely lie in the work of Kurt Lewin in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Despite a general awareness, the experience of the Leadership At Work team is that organisational values across the spectrum of Australian industries are ill-conceived, misinterpreted, intermittently applied or ignored entirely (there are of course a few organisations doing it well…). Organisational values it would seem, are somewhat like the Loch Ness Monster; the romantic notion of her existence is nice, the reality is somewhat different. The question we might...
Leadership Development – Converting knowledge to action
In early 2015, Leadership At Work Principal, Robert Re, made a visit to our Capital. Superman cape in hand and a resolve to rescue our political ‘leaders’ from themselves, he ventured into the belly of the beast. Over an afternoon Robert met with several of the Nation’s most recognised and experienced pollies; he explored their concept of leadership and offered the Leadership At Work model as a best-practice approach to a more sustainable, trusted Government. Whilst Robert’s superhuman powers were fully asserted, they were equally matched by the kryptonic powers of his adversaries (Robert might describe them as the powers...
Organisational development: Training vs. consulting
It is one thing to provide a consulting service, continually pointing businesses in the right direction when it comes to organisational development. But at Leadership At Work, we deliver effective organisational development training for Geelong and Ballarat, allowing managers and leaders to eventually implement tactics and methods in-house. It might seem like we are ‘cutting off our nose to spite our face’ by pushing one of our services over another, but there are key differences between consulting and training – and there is definitely a time and place for both when it comes to organisational development. Helping our clients reach...
Organisational Transformation for Executive Leaders
Organisational development process for all Australian corporations. Practically all of us involved in organisational improvement programs have witnessed the lack of sustainable change, and the inexorable reversion to ‘the way things were’, despite the best efforts of both internal and external change agents. This workshop explains why sustainable change is difficult but, more importantly, what can be done to really achieve organisational improvement. Leadership At Work organisational development facilitator Robert Re has more than 30 years’ experience in organisational development and brings together two powerful forces for sustainable improvement. – Aspiring to Greatness, renowned organisational development practitioner Dennis Pratt’s great work which...
Problem Busters
In this program we not only help organisations uncover the known and unknown solutions to their recurring problems; but in many cases we help them discover what their problem is in the first place. Read our Problem Busters brochure for more information, or contact us.
Conflict Management
Most people don’t like conflict and many actively avoid it. But, like it or not, we all need to deal with it at work. A conflict properly negotiated to extinction leaves no residues, such as frustration, bitterness, patronage or feigned closeness. Relating is searching out our differences and negotiating them to the point of satisfaction. There must be room in the context of relating for frustration to be expressed. Each conflict, properly negotiated, leaves only a recognition of who we are to each other at this moment. This workshop, incorporated into the Leadership At Work & Leading and Managing Teams...
Time Management
‘If only I had more time!’ This cry can be heard from almost any manager’s rooftop regardless of industry or experience. This course provides practical skills to concentrate on what really needs to be done, identify what doesn’t and effectively delegate the rest. A must have management tool. One thing we can attest to with this program, is that if you use the tools, the tools work, and if you do not use the tools – they don’t work! An interactive workshop – this course is practical, hands-on learning at its best. Participants question assumptions, which leads them to be...
The First XI
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 Systems
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...
Sustaining Workplaces
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...