The future after graduation can seem like a maze to many, but there is literally no shortage of options to choose from including finding work experience, graduate positions, volunteering and even overseas options. Graduate positions are professional development roles which have been structured specifically in order to cater for new or recent graduates. Students generally [...]
Change specialisations
As a change manager I have a number of specialisations – learning and development, usability, knowledge management and career development as well as a solid knowledge of change management processes and phases. These are all useful tools to bring out of the toolkit to use as levers in implementing successful change management.
What does talent management mean to your organisation?
Tom Peters said in his book Re-Imagine that “…people (their talent, creativity, intellectual capital, entrepreneurial drives) is all the hell there is.” There’s a strong link between a well thought out talent management strategy and increased customer satisfaction, quality, revenue and productivity. Talent management means different things to different organisations. To some it’s about managing high [...]
Transformation Best Practice
For a transformation to be successful your organisation needs to: Set clear and significant stretch goals Use a range of tactics to engage staff as early as possible Engage in large scale collaboration across the organisation Ensure communication is as clear and effective as possible with focus on building on successes not just fixing problems [...]
The Why, Who, What and How of Change Management
The Australian College of Change Management (ACCM) outline a really useful change roadmap: Identify the strategic objective for your change (the Why) Work out who your stakeholders are (the Who) Identify the impacts to your organisation (the What) Work out the change enablers (the How) – leadership, training and education, communication and performance management Use your preferred change [...]
Crafting a Career
I participated in a wonderful workshop recenly run by Gray Poenthal a Canadian career development practitioner based in Vancouver. To find out more about Gray see http://www.ergoncommunications.com/index.html Gray gave an enlightening and insightful perspective on how to help clients who are stuck in their career. The key takeouts for me were: The starting point is different for each person at a [...]
Retaining and Engaging Your Talent
In today’s competitive labour market it is important organisations do not lose talented, skilled and knowledgeable people and that they create both a preferred place to work and a learning organisation. Organisations need to focus on retaining and engaging talent. It is cheaper and more effective to grow and retain existing talent. Research shows that companies in [...]
Gender equity in the workplace
AHRI recently published the Gender Equity in the Workplace report and the results are telling. The report shows that around 65 per cent of the 900 respondents believed the gender mix at management and leadership levels in their organisation is not the appropriate mix. Read more at at www.ahri.com.au/genderequity There is a real business case for diversity – greater [...]
How do you rate your employability?
Employability includes qualities of resourcefulness, adaptability and flexibility and is the key to ongoing work security. People who possess these skills can adapt to a fast changing work environment learn new skills quickly develop and integrate diverse skill sets – reuse existing skills in new ways and integrate them into new skill sets eg consulting, facilitating, [...]
Does career development matter in your organisation?
Career development does matter for both organisations and individuals. It is cheaper and more effective for organisations to grow and retain their own talent. Decreased job satisfaction is the largest factor in voluntary turnover. Career development is part of life-long learning and it makes sense for organisations to partner with employees to align their strengths [...]
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