Shanyn is the Executive Director of Human Resources at Online Education Services (OES.edu.au) where she has been since 2011, part of the start up team. She guided the creation and implementation of all people related initiatives across the business including recruitment, remuneration, leadership development and organisational culture and engagement. All this through rapid expansion and growth. The efforts have not gone unnoticed, and OES has achieved and maintained Aon Hewitt Best Employer accreditation in 2014, 2015 and 2016. In 2017 they were named “The Best of the Best”.
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Read MoreMegan Bromley explains the leadership principles that have made RedBalloon be voted best place to work five years in a row with Zoe Routh.
Read MoreEdge of Leadership Un-Conference expert presenter, Dr. Amy Silver overturns rationale for performance reviews and why we need to do them completely differently. She explains:
What has changed in the nature of work that has led to frustration with performance reviews
The bad habit we need to break to reclaim the effectiveness of performance reviews
Why we need to get achievement and the problem out of the person and into the system itself
How we can start building a whole system of competence
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Read MoreSimon is an author of two books Analogosaurus: Avoiding Extinction in a World of Digital Business and The Digital Champion: Connecting the Dots Between People, Work and Technology, he is also a sought after professional speaker and he runs a program called The Digital Champions Club to help organisations identify and adopt the technology tools that can provide you with a competitive advantage.
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Read MoreAlisa Moss is a Director of Canberran design firm, DJAS. DJAS works with organisations to design work environments that range from hundreds of square meters to 85,000 square meters, from small spaces to whole buildings. Starting her career as a photographer, aesthetic design has always been important. A focus on sustainability has become equally so. Nowadays she includes the development of effective culture, alongside sustainability and beauty, as a key premise of her design work.
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Read More“Failure is just feedback.” Let’s get real. Sometimes failure is crippling and tragic. How do we deal with that kind of failure? When shame and tagged consumes us? We can recover, it takes focus and effort.
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Read MoreWant shortcuts to elevate your leadership thinking? How about hacks to multiply the amounts of books you read? How does leveraging your life and work effectiveness sound? What about getting strategic with your meetings in novel and powerful ways? Want to know the critical factors affecting our business world in the next ten years? This book has it all. Enjoy my book review to get some more details now.
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Read MoreWhen they resign, do you blame them for lack of loyalty, little team spirit, and being ungrateful? These things may be true. But is it true that it’s them, not you? Taking ownership of what you can do as an employer or business owner to keep staff engaged and loyal will keep you at the front and help keep folks from jumping ship.
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Read MoreCustomer service expert Craig Cherry shares the fundamentals of employee loyalty and engagement:
How playing the smile game got one business noticed in the media
Fundamentals of what people need to enjoy and be committed in their work
Critical skills leaders need to build buy-in and engagement
What the daily setup meeting is and what to include
How to create rewards and measures for staff
How even the trickiest of remuneration schemes, like those in legal firms, can access insights into individual contributions for better rewards
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Read MoreBusiness mentor and strategist Jeff Schwisow shares:
Why the real enemy of business evolution is not change, but how ‘now’ cripples your ability to focus on ‘next’.
How an effective project mindset is one that moves away from large transformational change in favour of a steady stream of smaller adaptive projects.
One of the biggest blocks to Boundless Leadership is being too focused on the scoreboard and not the game you’re playing.
Build your organisation as a circle not a triangle.
Three key tips to get started to bring the future into now and be better at getting strategic results.
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Read MoreHere are some questions to check your morale DNA:
Belonging
Do you make a big deal of new employees?
Do you show them around and introduce them to all the team members?
Do you make sure they have their workspace ready to go?
Do you have some objects that let them know they are one of the tribe? (Yes, a branded coffee cup of their own can count here)
Meaning
Do you help employees connect with the bigger picture?
Do employees know what you care about, why you do what you do, and how what they do fits in to the bigger cause?
Do you measure and showcase the impact you’ve had on your clients and make sure everyone knows about it?
Gaming
How is the ‘game’ of your work?
What rules are you playing by?
Are they clear and agreed?
Or are there some outdated rules that are clunky?
What systems create friction rather than flow?
Frustration instead of fun?
How do you know if you’re winning the game of work?
Is progress visible and meaningful?
What prize do you get when you ‘win’ at work?
How often do you celebrate wins and winning?
Cleaning up the game of work is a very pragmatic way to boost morale. Just make things easier, simpler, and more fun.
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Read MoreBoundless Leadership is not a one-way expansion: it’s an oscillation between to the edge of possibilities and unknown, and back to the core of who you are for strength.
Five key things you need to develop as a Boundless Leader...
Read MoreCollaboration and connection expert Janine Garner shares:
Why developing your network is essential for your marketing machine, your intelligence bank, and a board of advisors.
The biggest challenge people have when it comes to networking: not investing in core connections in the right way.
Where to start in developing a network that truly supports you.
The four key people you need in your network to help you become the person you want to be and create the results you want.
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Read MoreWhen you walk in to a space, you can feel if it uplifts or not. As leaders, we need to show up as an environment too - our energy, physicality, and language can cause positive change, or it can sabotage engagement.
Key Tips:
Energy: Are you inward or outward focused? Are you in your head or in the room?
Physicality: Focus on your breath, dig your toes in to the ground, and do power poses.
Language: Avoid commanding language and absolutes, use inclusive and collaborating language.
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Read MoreWhat do we need to explore the edges of what is possible? What does an explorer mindset really hold for us? What can we learn from explorers who did well, and those who died in their adventures?
The resources we need are often paradoxical.
Curiosity AND Discernment
Humility AND Hubris
Questions AND Answers
Venturing in to the Unknown, AND coming home again.
Listen in to hear how these paradoxes work in helping you expand your leadership capacity.
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Read MoreNo matter what attention we give it, employee engagement still remains a problem with 32% of people NOT engaged at work. This is a significant barrier for teams and organisations aspiring to Boundless Leadership.
We look at:
The four attitudes to break through engagement challenges: Appreciation, Gratitude, Love, Compassion.
The four areas to apply it: Self, Colleagues, Team, Organisation.
What to focus on when you feel you have NOTHING to appreciate.
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Read MoreAs the author of Moments - Leadership when it matters most, of course I had to review Chip Heath and Dan Heath's new book, The Power of Moments: Why certain experiences have extraordinary impact.
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