May 2019 - Conduit Consulting

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Building High Performance into your culture

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A new global career survey of employees released by Right Management finds that only 10 percent of employees define career success as high performance and productivity. These findings indicate an ongoing disconnect between employee aspirations and the performance demands of global employers. Understanding employee motivation and aspiration is key to creating a high performance […]

Risk management – Using the pre-mortem process

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Everyone knows that prevention is better than the cure . So why is it that we rarely apply this age-old wisdom in the workplace? Especially any Project Manager working on a big project with many moving pieces. As you maneuver through each day, it takes everything you’ve got to get through your massive pile of to-dos. You […]

Managing safety and risk (Learn from mistakes!)

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It’s not just start-ups that make catastrophic mistakes. Established Organisations do too and although they try to learn from these disasters, there is a tendency to make similar mistakes again and again. Consider NASA, an organisation employing some of the nation’s brightest minds. In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded – and by now, we […]