Deloitte has decided diversity groups for minority employees are a relic of the past

Deloitte US has decided that it’s time to move past diversity groups focused on gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or even veteranship, Bloomberg reported. Over the next 18 months, the accounting and consulting firm will phase out groups like the Women’s Initiative (WIN) and LGBT group Globe, and replacing them with “inclusion councils” where all employees are […]

The psychology of change management

Companies can redesign their structure, their systems and processes but unless they can help their people change, they are just moving the same people with the same behaviours into a new reporting line. Emily Lawson and Colin Price unpack ways to change behaviour and attitudes in this story for McKinsey and Co. Companies can transform […]

Ten Ways to Get People to Change

A valuable checklist for change strategists by Morten T. Hansen in the Harvard Business Review. Don’t overlook his point that most leaders of change only use a few of these levers – use them all.   1. Embrace the power of one. One company I worked with posted 8 values and 12 competencies they wanted […]

City calls on jury of its citizens to deliberate on Melbourne’s future

In a political landscape where trust has been eroded and the public are for the most part disengaged and disillusioned, it is refreshing to see state and local governments leading in some areas of policy innovation. A prime example of this is the use of deliberative democracy approaches to support the development of policies and […]

Do Australian leaders have what it takes?

The largest survey of Australian business leadership in 20 years reveals that only 57 per cent of workplaces are achieving their profit targets. The Study of Australian Leadership (SAL) also found that executive managers are over-confident in their leadership ability. Australian businesses are facing unprecedented levels of change that will only continue to escalate. From […]