Productive Leadership – Tarran Deane
Tarran Deane is a Leadership Development specialist. She is determined to reduce the ‘trafficking of leaders’ – good people leaving leadership roles, Tarran has extensive knowledge of emerging trends, the internal politics of organisations and the impact of disunity, the blame game & unrealistic expectations. Tarran is a former National Executive of leading Australian NFP “House With No Steps”, with annual revenue of $55million during Tarran’s service. Tarran has more than 41,000 real time hours in leadership across finance, training and development, tourism and community engagement. As a leadership development specialist, executive coach and change strategist to high performing Leaders …
Why Unwritten Ground Rules Could be Sabotaging Your Productivity – Steve Simpson
Steve Simpson is an international speaker, consultant and author based in Melboune. Described by UK based e-Customer Service World as ‘Australia’s leading corporate culture authority’, Steve has created the concept of UGRs® which is receiving global acclaim as a tool to understand and improve organisational culture. Steve has spoken at two World Conferences on Customer Service Management, in the US – where he rated in the Top 10 speakers. He has recently spoken at UK Customer Management Conference in Edinburgh, the Regional Conference for the Academy of Chief Executives in London, and the International Leadership Symposium in Johannesburg. He is …
Moving from ‘Me’ to ‘We’: The 5 critical Steps to Creating a Team your colleagues and competitors will envy – Sandi Givens
Born in the US, Sandi has over 25 years of experience in training and management. She is the author a widely acclaimed book Women on the Move – How you can create your place in the world and is a Certified Speaking Professional – the only internationally recognised designation for professional speakers. Sandi is MBTI and DISC accredited and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology & Psychology from Monash University. …
How a Mentally Healthy Work Culture Impacts on Productivity Guest – Graeme Cowan
Graeme’s world changed in 2000 when as a joint Managing Director of an Executive Search Division of a recruitment company, Graeme experienced a mental breakdown resulting in him being out of the workforce for 6 years. He emerged from the crisis with a very different view about how we can build resilience and mood to thrive in times of change. In 2007, he launched his first book, Back from the Brink which former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair commented “…is a brave book that will certainly help remove stigma, and provides real hope and practical help”. In 2009, Graeme worked …
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
The Rolling Stones sang you can’t always get what you want. When I start working with clients they often tell me they can’t get what they want with their Excel worksheets. It’s often as result of being too ‘close’ to the data. They know the outcome but either aren’t sure how to get there, or are missing one or more steps. Sometimes you need a fresh set of ‘eyes’ to provide some alternatives or options which can fast track your productivity. This of course is what you need. So if you can’t get what you want, maybe you should try …
Cumulative Gains
Recently I worked with a new team who were quite proficient with Excel. Our session provided them with the opportunity to fill their knowledge gaps, check in and see what their colleagues knew and provide the time and space to explore better processes and productivity gains. In our session together, I shared a range of topics designed to immediately impact on their personal productivity. One of my favourites is macros. When I introduce the concept of macros, I see “light globes” go off as people appreciate the power this tool has to fast track their common tasks. Even the more …
Comfort
I’ve recently facilitated 10 days of training organisations in the Cook Islands. It’s a beautiful environment and one of the things I learnt was the importance of comfort. Now comfort means that when you are doing a task you feel more empowered, you feel in control, you feel not concerned that you’re going to make mistakes or that something is wrong. So whether it be you’re working in an Excel spreadsheet and you’re confident looking around of all formulas and you understand what the formulas are doing and you feel comfortable that the numbers in your documentation are correct. Whether …
Comfort
I’ve recently facilitated 10 days of training organisations in the Cook Islands. It’s a beautiful environment and one of the things I learnt was the importance of comfort. Now comfort means that when you are doing a task you feel more empowered, you feel in control, you feel not concerned that you’re going to make mistakes or that something is wrong. So whether it be you’re working in an Excel spreadsheet and you’re confident looking around of all formulas and you understand what the formulas are doing and you feel comfortable that the numbers in your documentation are correct. Whether …
Are you really insured??
When working with clients one of the things I often hear is that somebody used to do that but now they’ve left the organization nobody knows how to do it Many teams forget the importance of making sure everybody is on the same page with every day technology like Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The challenge occurs when someone leaves and nobody knows had fix something that was taken for granted that somebody did all the time. Unfortunately what ends up happening is risk is increased and productivity drops as others try to complete the task that someone did easily and effortlessly on a regular basis. …
Take the Lead
Einstein is credited with saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sometimes in business we expect change to come from above and feed down The easiest way to change is to take the lead. You take the lead and lead by example. This might mean responding to emails at a particular time of the day or encouraging others to call you or meet with you rather than sending you emails randomly When people see you leading by example and your productivity increase they naturally want to follow along …
