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...

2 June 2023

Did we learn anything about Succession Management by watching Succession?

Warning: this article contains spoilers for those people watching the TV show Succession, and for those organisations that aren’t practicing effective Succession Management. IMHO the TV show Succession is fabulous... 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...

4 February 2022

A Re-think on the Great Resignation

In November 2021 in the US, something like 4.5 million employees resigned from their jobs. Another headline for a phenomenon being called ‘The Great Resignation’. There’s been plenty written about... Read more...

26 October 2021

Talent budgets are tight. Lets get back to basics.

Many HR teams are winning high praise for the role they have played in keeping their organisations functioning through COVID-19. They have worked incredibly hard and fast to ensure those... Read more...

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22nd May 2025

Your EVP Won’t Save a Bad Recruitment Strategy

Here’s what will. Off the back of our recent blog on Build... Read More

13th May 2025

Build or Buy?

What’s Your Underlying Talent Strategy? Every effective talent strategy must tilt toward... Read More

01st May 2025

What Would History Say? A Leadership Litmus Test for 2025

With the Australian Federal Election campaign underway right now, we’re being... Read More

15th April 2025

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