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13 November 2024

The Recruitment Type Indicator (RTI)

Since the dawn of time, we have found ways to describe and categorise people. From the four temperaments of the Ancient civilizations – sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic – to... Read more...

18 September 2024

Why Organisations Should Care About Burnout and Threat State Brains

By Sonya Hughes & Justin Miles Lately we’ve been exploring, burnout and the prevalence of “threat state brain”. These are not issues facing some employees, they’re cultural challenges that undermine... Read more...

20 August 2024

The Double Whammy

By Justin Miles & Sonya Hughes   As consultants we are witnessing two pervasive challenges to organisational performance: The escalating rates of employee burnout and;   The increased prevalence of... Read more...

14 August 2024

What Are Your Leadership Priorities? – A Foundation For Strategic Leadership Development

In today’s complex, competitive and often overwhelming world of work, clarifying exactly what you need from your leaders, and why, is essential for aligning your people, teams and the work... Read more...

18 July 2023

The Four As of Personal Reflection

 “I will keep constant watch over myself and, most usefully, will put each day up for review.” Epictetus Humans have long known the benefits of self-reflection. It empowers you to... Read more...

3 July 2023

The Four As of Mutual Obligation

Too many meetings without decisions? People taking too many things ‘offline’? People feeling micro-managed yet execs say people aren’t making decisions and referring things up? What’s going on? In our... Read more...

26 June 2023

Launch of The Explorers Mindset Leadership Programme

An Explorer is curious, has an appetite for personal and collective growth, resets expectations, reveals new insights, and challenges themselves and others to push beyond comfort zones to learn and... Read more...

14 June 2023

Talent Insights for a Global Finance Function

CASE STUDY The CFO of an Australian ASX50 company presented us with a problem to be solved. The Deputy CFO (DCFO) was viewed as a flight risk. The DCFO had... Read more...

23 May 2023

Our Guide to conducting effective Executive Assessments

An effective Executive Assessment approach can be a powerful way to understand the capabilities of individual leaders, cadres of management or operating functions within an organisation. Over the last 15... Read more...

15 May 2023

A Better Alternative to Executive Search

The rapid growth of LinkedIn and the democratisation of candidate research has been one of the most disruptive forces in search and recruiting that we’ve seen. With far easier access... Read more...

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