Three Ways Employers Can Support Mental Health Challenges
According to SANE Australia, 45 per cent of people will be affected by mental health challenges during their working lives. This means it's very likely that you or someone you know will be struggling now or in the future. From an employer's perspective, Beyond Blue...
Should Charities Accept Donations from Gaming Companies?
Gaming companies represent a minefield for charities accepting donations or fundraising support from them. Allegations of money laundering against a well known brand in Australia has brought this issue to the fore. What's the problem? With the social costs of gaming...
What Local Communities Teach Us About Effective Teams & Groups
What are the foundations for building effective teams and groups? When you think about it, work teams and groups are mini-communities in themselves. Therefore, if we know what makes local communities strong we can apply the same thinking to them. Researchers have...
Why Do Some Owners Lack Vision for Improving Their Bottom Line?
I was contacted by “Mark” recently who was somewhat desperate to improve collaboration across the business he works in. As we talked it through, it became clear the owners lack the vision and mindset needed to support the change he seeks. Without it, people are...
How to help your project partners let go of control
If your project partners aren't willing to let go of control your project may be doomed. So, how can you influence your partners to change their ways? An executive recently explained to me how the 'control' issue is impeding an important multi-sector project, making...
The Inner & Outer Loop of Collaboration Success
I saw a quote the other day on a posting by Dave Ulrich, and it really hit home because it lies at the heart of performance transformation and collaboration success. The quote was from Marshall Goldsmith and it went like this: "Successful people become great leaders...
Trivia Quiz Lessons for Collaborative Teams
Every Saturday our family unit bonds by doing the quiz in the Sydney Morning Herald and in the process we face the same challenges that all collaborative teams do. As team members we have our own strengths: Karen knows literature, Joel is a geography guru and Hannah...
Why Your Collaboration Skills Are Worth A Pay Rise
Collaborating skills are a precious commodity and CEOs are desperate to acquire and develop people with them. If you have these skills you should be lining up for a pay rise, and here’s why. Why the focus on collaboration? The philosophy behind collaboration is that...
How Good Are You At Managing Upwards?
Did you know that 50% of CEOs report their role is "not what I expected beforehand", and that managing upwards and outwards is accounting for 50% of their time and energy? Just yesterday I had lunch with a CEO who was promoted from within, thinking she knew what she...
Overcoming Design Challenges in Creating Shared Value
If you are seeking to link profitable business with social good, how do you overcome design challenges in creating shared value? The Role of Design Design is used extensively in reimagining and implementing social change, yet it has been largely missing in discussions...
Answering the Critics of Shared Value
The critics of shared value often misunderstand what it is (and isn't), highlighting the need for more discussion about the role it plays. And I come at this as a practitioner who is working with the principles every day with clients across all sectors, not as an...
Why Move Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
Companies once regarded corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs as a means for maintaining their licence to operate, but that's now changing. At the recent Australian Food & Grocery Council Future Leaders event in Sydney, I was asked to shake up thinking...
