A leader who can inspire and motivate their team is more important now than ever. Yet recent Randstad research shows the gap between what we need from our leaders and what they’re delivering. So what’s going on beneath the surface? And how do you avoid hitting this human capital iceberg?
Would you like your social captial to translate into better interest rates? How about more favourable lending terms because you shared your bank with your Facebook friends? Brett King’s MovenBank aims to do all that and more.
We all want it but it appears that most of us don't have nearly enough of it. What am I talking about? Happiness!
Happiness research is now big business. Where once the secret of happiness was left to the philosophers to ponder, the world of science has since joined the party. Scientists want to know what makes us happy, psychologists want to know why, and marketers want to know how to make money out of our desperate need to be happy.
eriously...mobile at point of sale will change advertising as we know it
In Wikipedia, the universal arbiter of debates on definition or trivia, "Advertising" is defined as follows: a form of communication used to encourage or persuade an audience to continue or take some new action.
Every leader faces a bacon war at some point. It starts as a seemingly trivial spat amongst colleagues but over time slow-boils into seething resentment that threatens to overwhelm your entire team.
This kind of crisis may seem like typical interpersonal office issues best dealt with by your staff, but it can prove to be a critical test of your leadership skills and eventually impact the effectiveness of all your endeavours.
You’d think 2012 would be a tough year to stay positive. Even Australia’s insulated position against the global debt crisis is looking increasingly shaky, our resources boom is having a dire impact on other industries and the economies of our biggest trading partners are grinding to a halt.
When was the last time you Googled yourself? Or 'stalked' an old acquaintance on Facebook?
If you were surprised at just how much the internet seems to know about you, you're not alone.
In pre-internet days, most information passed into unrecoverable obscurity in a relatively short time. Not so today when every youthful indiscretion since 1999 is available at the click of a mouse.
Since resigning the presidency of Ireland, Mary Robinson has been one of the most powerful voices for third world equality issues, climate change action and the empowerment of women to help solve these issues.
In this video Ms Robinson discusses how climate change has a greater impact on women in 3rd world countries and that there is an enormous body of knowledge bound up in the coping mechansims used by these women.
Why do most new year’s resolutions fail to provide lasting results? Why do even the best sales teams manage only a 10% cold call conversion rate? And why do some leaders attract a cult-like following while others struggle to hold authority - even with the threat of job termination in their back pocket?
“Why?” is an interesting question. But is it “the” question?
Is your company waiting for the good old times to return, when consumer behaviour wasn’t shifting into a new age of internet domination and mobile phone applications? In this blog article Sam Cawthorn looks at why this is an irresponsible, yet universal way of thinking, which is doing your business more harm than good.
The traditional way of banking is under threat due to the changing consumer behaviour we are currently witnessing. In this blog article bestselling author of Bank 2.0, Brett King, shares some fascinating facts, figures and future insights with us, as banks all around the world announce branch closures.
Well it’s the end of the year again! Most of us will soon be having a well-deserved break after yet another intense year, where the demands of life and work have once again increased dramatically, leaving some of us exhausted.
Well it’s the end of the year again! Most of us will soon be having a well-deserved break after yet another intense year, where the demands of life and work have once again increased dramatically, leaving some of us exhausted.
We were delighted to have been able to recently share international author and speaker, Yossi Ghinsberg with some of our clients during our DARE showcase series.
Lost in the uncharted wilderness of the Amazon for 20 days, Yossi's harrowing true story of sheer survival has moved audiences worldwide. We captured his talk at the DARE Sydney Showcase where he spoke of The Chalalan Project, a eco-tourism resort and ultimate result of his journey in the Amazon. This video will leave you in awe of Yossi's ability to take a vision and turn it into actuality.
More and more businesses are adopting new emerging 2.0 web technologies in order to facilitate and encourage collaboration inside their organisations.
In this video Dominic Thurbon shares with us three tools which he refers to as ‘The Holy Trinity of Collaboration’. When these three tools are put to use inside businesses they drive innovation, increase productivity and ultimately enhance staff engagement.
The world is changing more rapidly than ever, which is creating major challenges for the education sector. It is apparent that education organisations need to face and overcome these challenges, in order to shift with the trends and remain relevant.
Last month the ODE team DARED to run two more speaker showcases, one in Sydney and the other in Melbourne.
Two hundred people gathered on a crisp August morning at Doltone House and a week later another hundred and forty people got together at Maia in Melbourne. Both audiences were inspired, challenged, moved and DARED by our world class and cutting edge thought leaders.
Creating relevant, engaging and differentiated learning experiences in an uncertain future. Dominic Thurbon, Chief Creative Officer, ChangeLabs
It is an oft-cited cliché that ‘the world is changing faster than ever’. I would argue that it is a cliché because it is true! Education, in particular, is undergoing a rapid revolution, and I say this from first hand experience. Over the years, at ChangeLabs we’ve worked with over 350,000 students and over 100,000 amazing educators and administrators in primary, secondary, tertiary and vocational education around the world. This revolution is not the ‘education revolution’ of Rudd/Gillard administrations, but a revolution driven by a confluence of interrelated trends: legislative shifts in everything from funding to curriculum, generational change, a changing world of work for which we are preparing students, rapidly emerging technologies and a dire teacher shortage, just to name a few.
Mike Walsh: You can have too much of a good thing, especially if it wasn’t yours to start with. Here’s the perfect example – brands that shamelessly imitate the strategies of their major competitors. I was scouting the Westfield complex in Century City, LA last week and noticed a new Sony concept store a few feet from a classic Apple retail shrine. It was striking how similar both stores appeared, except for one crucial distinction – Sony was devoid of customers.
Dominic Thurbon works with companies to help them embrace new emerging technologies and deal with the rapidly changing future of the work place. With web 2.0 continually progressing, the need to collaborate across traditional business units to achieve collective outcomes has never been greater. In Dominic’s speaking demo you will get the sense of how this can achieved through the implementation of silos and disorganised collaboration.
In life we are all leaders in some form or another, and as leaders we need to be in a constant state of shifting. Shifting is a matter of moving progressively and purposely from where you are now, to where you want to be in the future. In this video Lisa McInnes-Smith shares with us the 1% improvement formula that creates long-term shifts and takes us and our teams towards achieving our greater goals.
We have just entered into a brand new financial year and it’s time to plan and prepare for the next 12 months. With 45% of people unhappy in their current jobs and depression at an all time high, things aren't looking good! In this video Sam Cawthorn shares with us the three pillars required in business to overcome these issues, allowing us to ‘bounce’ into the new financial year and ensure success!
Over the last month we have been working hard behind the scenes to overhaul our You Tube page. It is now up to date with our speakers most relevant, engaging and at times, eye opening video content. This means that you now have instance access to a wealth of knowledge from Australia’s leading and most progressive thought leaders.
Only 7% of our communication is words, 38% is the tone in which we say something, while the most powerful form of communication is body language at a staggering 55%. In this video, communication expert Chris Helder shares some insights into how to read body language and reveals the power of asking questions in order to create a listening behaviour that re-engages people.