Unleashing the Collaborative Potential of your Workforce To get ahead in the knowledge economy, companies must capture the expertise already floating around inside its four walls. By using simple social media tools, we can not only capture and search the expertise we already have, but also direct it towards solving pressing business problems. Unleashing innovation and collaboration in this way is a sure-fire method for driving better results! In this insightful and empowering presentation Dominic will: - A toolkit of ways to create a collaborative culture through personal leadership, visible action, evaluation and embedding.
- The 10 steps to creating a highly collaborative workplace and how to sell people on the value of working collaboratively.
- The link between collaboration and technology and how to use the real web 2.0 - social networks, content sharing and knowledge aggregation.
- Insights into why collaboration is key in strategic thinking and how to apply this in the everyday.
- A thorough understanding of the necessary features and prerequisites of a collaborative organisation.
- The ability to identify the barriers to collaboration and strategies to deal with these.
- A plan of immediate achievable steps to begin the process of building a collaborative culture in your organisation.
- The motivation and conviction to commit to action immediately.
Flip! How Counterintuitive Thinking is Changing Everything Flip is your future-focused strategy for leading in times of ambiguity through embracing innovation and change. Based on Peter Sheahan’s international business bestseller Flip: How Counterintuitive Thinking is Changing Everything (now published in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia), this powerful and provocative session will challenge you to rethink the status quo, reassess your business strategy and look at the changing business environment in a whole new way. This interactive and engaging presentation will: - Frame the four forces of change currently impacting our business environment and offer strategies for adapting to and profiting from these changes
- Pinpoint the causes, nature and results of rising stakeholder expectations across all markets and offer inspirational case-studies of companies that have adapted to meet and exceed these demands
- Highlight the growing importance of stories, “superficial” experiences and non-monetary factors in consumer decisions
- Explore new notions of ownership and control in areas is of brand, products, innovation and marketing & management
Understanding and Engaging Generation Y
Generation Y are the 4.5 million Australians born between 1978 and 1994 and their unique expectations are redefining consumer and employment markets alike. But we can’t hope to engage and retain this group without first understanding the unique mindsets that drive their behaviour. In this insightful, interactive and entertaining presentation we will:
- Unpack the seven mindsets of Generation Y, and the environmental factors that have combined to shape and create them
- Examine how these mindsets relate to engaging and retaining the best Gen Y talent
- Identify, analyse and eliminate the biases and blind spots managers have about Generation Y
- Look at the key differences between Gen X, Gen Y and the forthcoming “gen z”, and what this means for management styles
- Dive into how each manager is responsible for crafting and living the ‘employer brand’, and what employer brands attract top Gen Y staff
- Lay out the massive implications of the Generational Change in driving new disruptive technology and how this can be harnessed to build collaboration at work
- Work through practical case studies, real-life situations and best-practice practical advice for managing the Gen Y to get the most out of them
- Brainstorm and craft usable strategies for managing Gen Y in a way that is desirable without compromising core business necessities
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