Serious Consulting Pty Ltd in Preston, Victoria, Australia | Business consultant

Serious Consulting Pty Ltd

Locality: Preston, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9018 6757

Address: Factory 9, 62-64 Oakover Rd 3072 Preston, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.seriousconsulting.com.au

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25.01.2022 "Remember that simply throwing facts at a person won’t change their mind; use their past experiences to understand where they are coming from and shape the conversation accordingly. If your goal is to shape opinions, let them share stories on parallel experiences that can be connected to the topic at hand and guide them to changing their mind on their own. Treat each other with decency and respect, and genuinely try to share your feelings. A little empathy can go a long way in building positive and productive conversations with each other, and perhaps help us heal the fractures we feel"

25.01.2022 This is what you get when the purpose of executives (in this case hitting their targets and enriching themselves) running an organisation is not aligned with the purpose of the organisation (in this case providing the vital service of delivering mail and parcels). Competent executives should not require training in accountability and transparency. Change the executive remuneration and change the executives.

24.01.2022 "In many ways, there is only one question any manager need ask: How do I make my team members’ lives easierphysically, cognitively, and emotionally? Research shows that this servant leader mentality and disposition enhances both team performance and satisfaction." And the easiest and most "serious" way to do this is to make it easier for people to do their jobs............. https://www.mckinsey.com//the-boss-factor-making-the-world

22.01.2022 The case against working from home forever Maybe the office isn’t so bad. Several companies have recently announced a shift to a remote first model, relying more on virtual work. This may be hasty, others argue. What about social capital? The benefits of remote working will erode, Paco Ybarra, Citigroup’s head of investment banking, said in an interview with The Financial Times. The relationships currently sustaining business were built from face-to-face meetings before the... lockdown capital that we have accumulated before, in his words. The longer people are apart, the weaker those bonds become. Microsoft’s C.E.O., Satya Nadella, made a similar point in a recent interview with The Times. Referring to hiring in a remote-working setup, he said: I ask myself if somebody new had joined Microsoft, even at the senior ranks, how would they feel? How connected will they feel? What about company culture? David Plotz of Business Insider predicts a potentially destabilizing divide between workers who get ahead by going into the office and those who work remotely and miss out on career opportunities. Everyone who wants to manage, to run things, to influence, to jockey, to make friends, to build a network they will clamor to work in the office, he writes. Almost every single ambitious person in a company will be demanding a desk at HQ.

22.01.2022 French Mathematician Blaise Pascal (yes. him of the triangle) wrote "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time" We have just sent off our latest book to the printers. It is the world's shortest book on leadership and as a result it took us quite some time (5 years) to write and a global pandemic to finish. Feel free to DM with your orders :-)

21.01.2022 Welcome to Get Serious; Our new series of podcasts where we talk to a wide variety of interesting people about leadership. Today in our inaugural podcast we are privileged to speak with the Managing Director of world leading hifi company Linn Products Limited - Gilad Tiefenbrun. In 1973 Linn produced the iconic LP12 otherwise known as the Linn Sondek turntable. Up until the LP12 the conventional wisdom was that speakers were the key to sound quality. Ivor Tiefenbrun, founder... of Linn turned that idea on its head, proving that it was the source that was the most important component and that information lost there could never be recovered. Ivor’s son Gilad joined the company in 2003 and led it into the digital age where it is now leading the field in music streaming. Gilad talks about his background, early career and how it influenced his management philosophy. He also discusses challenges and crises he has experienced over the last 17 years and why resilience is very important in troubled times. Listen here : https://soundcloud.com/jonathan-odonn/get-serious-episode-1 or https://drive.google.com//1R0g15XyoQw1FiLlKHtRXiUSWD/view

19.01.2022 1. Sending Mediocrity Signals 2.Strategic ADHD 3.Playing Keystone Cops 4. Misbegotten Overly Ambitious Goals

18.01.2022 A very interesting study on the use of masks in Kansas USA on a county by county basis. While the Governor of Kansas mandated mask wearing, individual counties did not have to comply due to legislation limiting emergency management powers. So did the counties that mandated mask wearing show a decrease in COVID transmission? Yes! ... Here is the link to the study: https://mediahub.ku.edu/media/Masks/1_49bb9aid This is a textbook example of the effective use of data presented in a simple fashion.

12.01.2022 Great Article - Rudy involved in the peer-review :-)

08.01.2022 The times they are a changing........ this is a very useful framework - it can be used to think about customer and employee (and your own) behaviours

08.01.2022 Get clear on your organisation's purpose and values. Keep the communication channels open and regularly check in on your people. Empower your employees - code for train them and involve them in decision making.

07.01.2022 Welcome to Get Serious; #2 in our series of podcasts where we speak to a wide variety of interesting people about leadership and work. We are privileged to speak with Daniel Camilleri senior user experience researcher at Afterpay. Daniel is a behavioral scientist. After completing his masters degree in psychology at the University of Adelaide he went on to work for Uber in San Francisco where he worked with the behavioral finance guru Professor Dan Ariely from Duke University. Daniel talks to us about his background, life and culture in Silicon Valley and working with Dan Ariely.

03.01.2022 This sums up something I am trying to get through to some of my students.

03.01.2022 Less is More this week - a short CV session covering our very short book on leadership and the fact that the world is still turning..........

01.01.2022 "human-to-human interaction will continue to be the key to successful and meaningful feedback processes even if that interaction is done virtually"

01.01.2022 Interesting - McKinsey seem to have reinvented the ABC model...........