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5 Tips to Get the Best from Your Teams

Posted by Desiree Williamson on 18/06/2018 11:04am

Our teams just don’t work; lots of talk about each other, plenty of friction but very little traction. Some people simply avoid their team and go it alone. If your teams are not zones of trust, collaboration and harmony, then you won’t be getting the effectiveness and results that you could. Perhaps it’s time for a change for the better?

IBM Kenexa Exit has a Silver Lining

Posted by Chris O'Reilly on 28/05/2018 10:00am

Last month one of the world’s leading employee engagement survey companies, IBM Kenexa, announced they would exit New Zealand in June. It must have been a shock for their customers to hear that they would no longer be supported, effectively leaving them looking around for what comes next. The situation is...

ODI HPWI Programme 2015/16 Delivers Results

Posted by Kyran Newell on 27/03/2017 12:00pm

ODI's High Performance Work Initiative (HPWI) programme was Callaghan Innovation co-funded and worked with four client organisations over the 15-month period to December 2016. The programme provided workshop-based diagnostics across the 10 Levers for High Performance Work; participative events at which SMT and others from client organisations discussed and rated...

ODI’s HPWI Programme Shows Promise

Posted by Kyran on 16/09/2016 12:40pm

ODI has been rolling out its Callaghan Innovation-supported High Performance Work Initiative (HPWI) programme since October 2015 for the four organisations that have joined this inaugural programme. It is scheduled for completion by the end of calendar 2016. Indications are that it is providing good returns to the participant organisations,...

Lean is Foremost about Adding Value

Posted by André Esterhuizen on 16/08/2016 1:35am

Winnie the Pooh “Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop...

Health promoting leaders unleash organisational performance

Posted by Sarah McGuinness on 30/03/2016 12:00am

In terms of priorities, health often comes last for leaders. Time and time again, studies have found the top sources of stress for executives are excessive workload and/or long hours, lack of work/life balance and inadequate staffing. Yet the effect of poor health for leaders can be profound. A survey of executives...

Achieving Desired Business Outcomes

Posted by Nicky on 22/01/2014 11:10am

How do you achieve desired business outcomes from training? This is a central question for any organisation and the answer lies in analysis, planning and design of learning solutions in conjunction with an experienced learning and development specialist. At one end of the spectrum, you can simpply send individuals to ad...