The Channel Group

10/09/2013

Communication Politics - the value of commitment, consistency and authenticity in your communication.

http://www.channel.net.au/articles/communication-politics/

The concession and acceptance speeches by our political leaders on Saturday night played out an interesting contrast as well as providing a microcosm of the respective campaigns.

12/12/2012

A quick productivity win is to ensure your team is clearly focused on executing critical organisational priorities.
http://www.channel.net.au/articles/productivity-and-team-alignment/

Everyone is being asked to do more with less. ’Always on’ technology means your people feel like they are busier than ever. But are we all working on the right stuff at the right time? Are those things that are strategically urgent, or will have the most impact on your competitive advantage being...

04/12/2012

Winning, innovative organisations have a clear strategy that learns from history, assesses the present and has eyes on the future.
http://www.channel.net.au/articles/strategy-must-look-to-the-future-for-innovation/

Winning, innovative organisations have a clear strategy that learns from history, assesses the present and has eyes on the future.

27/11/2012

Risk v's Luck. http://www.channel.net.au/articles/risk-vs-luck/

“I’d rather be lucky than good” so the saying goes. There are plenty of people with sound skills and experience who don’t think they have any luck, or at least the luck they deserve. The reality is that there is no lucky or unlucky situation. It is just our perception. Feeling lucky is just an opti...

26/11/2012

Innovate to live.
http://www.channel.net.au/articles/innovate-to-live/

The success of organisations is linked to their ability to innovate and change at an ever increasing rate. This is difficult as most organisations that show “hockey stick” growth in the first 15 years of life go on to build the centralised infrastructure and culture to secure and sustain that grow...

31/10/2012

Communication always matters
http://www.channel.net.au/articles/communication-always-matters/

Communication matters. Tone, language and body language cannot be trivialised and can often influence perception. It is even more critical for leaders to display both passion and authenticity in their communications. The collective impact of this cannot be over estimated, as recent US presidentia...

22/10/2012

The latest insight from Channel Associate, Earl de Blonville...

http://www.channel.net.au/articles/company-values/

A company – business or corporate – cannot have ‘values’. Only an individual person can have ‘values’. (A company’s value is measured in its productivity or its sale price)

22/10/2012

"You only directly control 3 things in the entire world - your thoughts, your words, and your actions. That’s it."

Great advice from Devora Zack at Fast Company...here is a link to the article if you want to read further....

http://www.fastcompany.com/3002274/help-my-manager-sucks?partner=newsletter

Let’s pretend, hypothetically, that you report to a manager who falls short of ideal. Perhaps he (or she) undermines your efforts, micromanages, only notices what’s wrong, doesn’t walk the talk, vanishes into thin air, takes credit for your work, has vague expectations, doesn’t communicate, criticiz...

10/10/2012

Wow interesting read...predictions on what jobs will still be around in 20 years.

The rise of the robot worker - will your job exist in 20 years time? http://bit.ly/SN8olf

03/10/2012

Johnny Lee shares some insights on Inspiring your workforce, and a recent article from Fast Company.

http://www.channel.net.au/articles/inspire-your-workforce/

Their reasons for growth are their ability to find the right people for the right roles and they invest both time and money in developing these people.

19/09/2012

Some good advice from HBR

Effective leaders motivate their people with an inspiring vision. It need not be grand or necessarily innovative, but it does need to be sensible. Here are three ways to create a vision that...

27/06/2012

Channel Associate, Lydia Ievleva's latest column from Women's Health & Fitness - how to move from reactivity to responding effectively.

http://www.soulinmotion.com.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/July-WHF.pdf