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The importance of being understood!
“Every divisional head is well aware of their numbers,” the CFO announced at the board meeting. “So, I’m perplexed why so many have missed their targets.” However, we got a

Six ways to Engage Better with your Employees
There’s been a lot of talk lately about disengagement. Quiet quitting is just a recent buzzword for a more endemic problem. In Australia, only one in five people are engaged

The Three F’s of Effective Communication
Communication & Candour is one of the three key behaviours of performing teams (the others are Trust & Vulnerability and Commitment & Accountability). It helps to think of communication in

5 ways to stop wasting time in meetings!
Work meetings are an increasingly controversial topic these days. Some love them, others hate them. So, what’s the sweet spot? In our work and research, human interaction is one of

The Manager’s Diary
What should the focus of a manager be? How should a manager’s time be spent? These are questions we get asked quite often in our work. Whilst everyone’s role is

The Power of One-on-One Meetings
One cannot hire a hand, the whole man always comes with it. Peter Drucker Since our last article, we’ve had interest in 1on1 meetings – why have them, how often

Managing oneself and others…
In 2005 the Harvard Business Review published Peter Drucker’s seminal article Managing Oneself, where the father of management outlined a reflective model for human performance. Managing oneself, members of one’s

The One-Page Proposal
Working closely with two very successful business leaders – Jack Bendat and Andrew Forrest – taught me lessons that we have used to transform many organisations since. One of them

The power of strategic abandonment
There is no greater tragedy than doing well that should not be done at all. Yet, we fall into habits that are unfruitful at best, or dangerous at worst –

The seven-step process to better budgets and forecasts.
As we commence a new financial year, we have to traverse the process of forecasting our organisation’s financial budgets. This is often a best guess exercise, done in Excel with changes

9 Questions to ask of your organisation on a regular basis…
If we started from scratch today… …would we be doing what we are doing now? …would we have the same people as we do now? …are we happy with how

The urgency delusion of work
The immediacy of our work environments has had numerous positive and negative implications on how we perform. One phenomenon is the sense of urgency that has permeated everything we do