Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Hiring a bad leader compounds like high interest on a bad debt
This week Forbes contributor Dev Ittycheria, published a column Avoiding Costly Recruiting Mistakes: The Importance Of High Standards. It’s excellent and I recommend you read it. “The reality is that no one wants to work for a bozo, and employees can instantly assess if their boss is a bozo. The team who works for a bad boss will…
Read MoreOptimism: Our industry’s greatest attribute and greatest weakness
Things are rocking right now. It’s clear from the conversations I’ve had with many people in the recruitment industry since the beginning of the year that the market is moving at Usain Bolt-like speed. Agencies are reporting record levels of job registrations and the subsequent placements are leading to healthy bottom line results. The other…
Read MoreInterview with 2016 SARA (NZ) Recruiter of the Year: Alex Allan of Randstad
Following on from my interview last week with New Zealand SARA winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year, Randstad’s Brien Keegan, this week I speak to his colleague, Alex Allan who won the New Zealand SARA for Recruitment Consultant of the Year. Originally from the UK, Alex started his working life in professional sport before leaving the UK…
Read MoreInterview with 2016 SARA (NZ) Recruitment Leader of the Year: Brien Keegan of Randstad
In mid-November last year, one week after the equivalent Australian awards, Seek announced the winners of the New Zealand SARAs. The winner of the Recruitment Leader of the Year was Randstad’s Brien Keegan. After completing his undergraduate degree at Massey University in 2001, Brien worked at Telecom New Zealand for just over 18 months before…
Read MoreDoes Donald Trump have the necessary character to be a successful President?
In the past week a number of people asked me when I was going to blog about the President-elect of America. I wasn’t sure what I would say; whether it would be relevant for readers of this weekly missive or whether I even wanted to say anything. I was shocked as (almost) everybody else…
Read MoreThe best leaders do less, not more
Successful recruiters that consistently deliver high numbers do so because they are constantly in action. Every minute of every day of every week of every month is an opportunity to make more placements as quickly as possible. To work in the same office as Graham Whelan or Andrew Marty was to witness an incredible level of personal productivity on…
Read MoreMichael Page in deep snow: A monumental failure of leadership
It’s a month now since the Michael Page ski trip to Mt Buller became very bad news for the company, very quickly. The resulting publicity was a nightmare of epic proportions (just search ‘Michael Page ski weekend’ to see how widely it was covered). As you can read from an anonymous comment on my original blog about this incident (22/07/2016), it…
Read MoreWant a high performance team? Then don’t aspire to team harmony
Last Friday I attended a fundraiser for RUOK?. The morning comprised of twenty minute presentations from each of the 8 excellent presenters, skillfully welcomed and thanked by MC, Glenn Capelli. Among the speakers was Rachael Robertson who I was familiar with from her humourous and inspiring closing keynote Leading on the Edge at the 2015 RCSA PEARL Consultant Forum, held at Crown,…
Read MoreLessons from Everest: Back your expertise
Last week I was in California for a conference. As I live in Melbourne, this entailed a 14 hour flight each way to reach LA. My flight time was taken up with watching movies. One of the movies I watched was Everest; the dramatised account of the disaster that occurred on Mt Everest on 10…
Read MoreMothers, families, work and role sharing: what I have learned
A very significant event for my family occurred on Christmas Eve. My wife, Michelle was offered, and she accepted, the position of Head of HR at her current employer of six years, Hallmark Cards Australia. I was thrilled for her as I know how hard she has worked to build her corporate HR skills after…
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