In recent months I have been more intimately involved in the New South Wales Council amalgamation process.  Over the last few months, together with a colleague from the IR world, I  have been meeting many of the senior staff associated with the proposed amalgamations....

Change is always around us.

But for NSW Councils the Fit for the Future will provide significant change for local government councils, their staff.

Whether Councils are supporting or seeking amalgamations or not, significant change will occur and impact on the workforce...

Fit for the Future amalgmations will have an impact in the coming months and years for many NSW Councils.

There will be many and varied steps of change both for the organisation and for staff.

This will create uncertainity, mental stress, greater workloads and challenges...

Managers, supervisors and leaders have immediate responsibility for :

* Retention

* Productivity

* Learning and Development

Mentoring can produce better outcomes for all of the above.

Gallup's world wide research into what makes great managers found that the one of the crit...

The NSW Local Government has commenced the Fit for the Future process for all NSW Councils.

Much is centred around the economic benefits for councils, rate payers and communities.

The impact for the staff both through the Fit for the Future process and the amalgmations t...

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When I presented at a HR conference in Sydney I challenged the audience on the question, "How many actively chose the members of their teams at work".  Not surprisingly no one did.  There was an expectation that a group of people put together as a 'team' would just wo...

Do you have a revolving door of Managers?

Are your Senior Executives and Managers not performing as you expected?

This is a very common problem when selection is made through interviews only.

So how can you eliminate some of the risk of poor selection?

We can help with  Ps...

How positive are you in your workplace?

Is the glass half full or half empty?

Or does it really matter?

When Martin Seligman became president of the American Psychological Association, he decided that his legacy would be How Psychology could enhance our lives rather than...