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Executive Team Dysfunction – Clashing Personalities or Something Else?

Leave a Comment / Leadership Team Development / By Carolyn Dean

Hewsons’ Consultant: ‘How’s the executive team performing?”, HR Manager: “There’s real issues between some members that everyone is aware of, but no- one is talking about or dealing with. The individuals talk to me and I’ve tried to support them getting resolution but I’m struggling”. What scenario does the HR manager’s response to the question …

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Are You a First Time CEO?

Leave a Comment / Leadership Teams / By Joe Watkins

Have you moved into a CEO or Executive role for the first time? First – congratulations! You have stepped into a whole new world. It’s not the same as the world of a successful senior manager, it will draw on your experience and technical capabilities, but you now need other competencies and in my experience, …

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Workplace Equality Risks and Pitfalls

Leave a Comment / Values and Culture / By Carolyn Dean

In the post #MeToo world there are huge opportunities for women and men, but there are also risks and pitfalls. In the drive to address equality in their workplaces, or to be seen to be doing so, are the people who are leading organisations as conscious of those risks and pitfalls as they need to …

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Overwhelming Workload – How do you deal with it?

Leave a Comment / Executive Coaching / By Joe Watkins

Senior people in organisations have a lot to do. In fact, my experience of working with senior managers and executives across a range of industries is that they have more to do than the time available to do it in and it’s never-ending and relentless! I know for myself, when I experience overwhelm i.e. ‘too …

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Ian Narev and CBA – What About Accountability?

Leave a Comment / Accountability and Integrity, Authentic Leadership / By Joe Watkins

“In explaining why no executives had been let go, the CBA boss noted that even with strong standards there was little an executive could do to completely eradicate the risk of a rogue operator.” Daniel Palmer, Australian March 7th. ‘Rogue operators’ – really! Does the CBA’s violations really come down to rogues? What happened to …

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Accountability – the issue of our time

Leave a Comment / Accountability and Integrity / By Carolyn Dean

My business partner Joe has written a number of posts over the past six months on this topic and today’s hearings from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse prompts me to add to the conversation. Accountability: the state of being accountable, liable, or answerable. Accountable: subject to the obligation to report, …

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