Achieving productivity and financial targets are generally top priorities for business leaders. Provided service and/or product orders are being maintained at optimal levels, targets that are not being met by employees over a sustained period are likely to elicit ‘why’ questions from line managers. This article outlines likely employee responses in terms of what matters [...]
While the CEO, manager, supervisor or leader is critical to setting the direction or goals, long term success depends upon a team approach. A poorly performing team breeds competing agendas and turf politics, while an integrated high performing team brings organisation coherence and focus. A good team begins with a collection of strong and talented [...]
I was speaking to a good friend of mine the other day about the nature of change and she raised an interesting scenario. When an employee in her organisation was put into a better position, a promotion that they willingly accepted, they brought with them enough of the past to potentially derail their future. It [...]
Several years ago, I was chatting to Barry, my coach and mentor. At the time, I was particularly aggrieved at the behaviours of one of my peers. I complained that this person’s actions were clearly of malicious intent, and intended to position me in a negative light. It seemed so clear to me at the [...]
Our coaching spans all levels of organisations and I was working with a ‘Middle Manager’ the other day and the question came up, what is middle management – what is the role? It’s an interesting question, having worked with many organisations I see this layer of people between the workforce and senior management. In the [...]
Have you been offered a promotion? Is it taking you out of your technical area into leadership management? ......not so fast..... Have you actually considered what this means and looks like? You have fantastic technical skills, you’re the number one worker in your team or group and you’ve been offered the role of supervisor, team [...]
When conflict arises in almost any situation, people immediately head to their corners and start to build the fortifications. Then when the conflict escalates they come out metaphorically swinging. If the conflict is around malicious intent then there is some argument to support this approach. Facts are that most of the conflicts we see are [...]
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or are already, in a state of requiring aged care support. This represents over 20% of the current population (24 Million) [...]
Few people would realise that prior to taking on the role as General Manager at Career Life Transitions I was a skydiving instructor. I have over 4000 jumps under my belt and have worked all over the world including drop zones in Spain, Sweden and the USA. As a skydiving instructor I was at the [...]
At Career Life Transitions we are constantly in conversation with people searching for work and people searching for people who want work. Of late there are a number of interesting trends we’ve noticed and one is the change in the nature of the working structure. Baby boomers are now moving into retirement and while they [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: