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As an experienced facilitator of a range of writing courses, I’m getting more and more requests from organisations and individuals looking for courses on writing business cases. So, what is a business case? Typically, a business case is a document whose purpose is to support or influence decision-making by proving that a particular course of […]

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As more and more organisations encourage employees to move from the 9-to-5 office environment to working anytime, from anywhere, two issues stand out for Human Resource professionals. Both have the potential to create major challenges – and opportunities – for learning professionals. The first issue every organisation faces when letting employees work from home, cafe, […]

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How good is your documentation? When I talk to clients, many of them acknowledge that their documentation is poorly written. In fact, one client recently went so far as to tell me ‘our Standard Operating Procedures are rubbish’! The state of your organisation’s documentation may not be a high priority. But if these documents are […]

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Learning institutions rely on many complex processes working together to meet the needs of stakeholders. And it’s these processes that come under scrutiny when institutions are asked to achieve more with less, be more accountable or flexible, or improve service to those stakeholders.

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A few weeks ago, we published an article on the 6-hour working day and the response was phenomenal. In our search to find an Australian company that successfully applies this principle we stumbled across First Class Wealth, a financial planning firm based in Sydney.

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The science, or is it the art, of helping employees adapt to change is not new, with literature on the subject dating back nearly 70 years. Yet the majority of Change Management programs still fail. Why?

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We’ve all heard Peter Drucker’s line “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” but have you ever stopped to think just how much culture also drives recruitment, retention, motivation, leadership development and more - at the sub-atomic level, for better or worse - of every organisation?

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The two reasons why you shouldn’t implement a mindfulness program

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If you are reading this article, you are probably sitting at your desk, in a corporate job, where you work around 8 hours per day. But have you ever wondered where these 8 hours come from? And have you ever asked yourself if these hours are really necessary?

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Mobile workforce, remote workers, telecommuters, digital nomads - whatever term you use, working from anywhere but the office is a movement that’s grown in popularity ever since it was introduced in Germany in 1967 to reduce the problems associated with, perhaps surprisingly given it was 50 years ago, commuting to work.

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Over the past decade, technology has had a considerable impact on the way we live, connect, share and communicate.

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The Microsoft Office suite — applications like Word, Excel and PowerPoint — is a powerhouse of business tools that provide everything you and your team need to work quickly and effectively in the modern office environment.

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