Leadership that inspires

Creating volunteers, where people follow you without fear or favour, title or rank...

We help leaders understand the Australian Leadership style most likely to engage to create volunteers. Australian workplaces are unique in how they respond to change. Equally important is preventing people from slipping into ‘the sky is falling’ whinger, ‘quit and stay’ survivor, or ‘spanner in the back pocket’ prisoner mode. Lead us the right way and we are unstoppable. Lead us the wrong way and we are immovable.

Australian Leadership…

Inspire, engage and lead with impact

Australians instinctively understand the difference between leaders, bosses and bastards when they are being led – but in our experience, it is rare for leaders to genuinely understand the difference themselves.

Based on the insights from the $2 million Australian Leadership Archetype Study (revalidated 2013), we help leaders understand the Australian Leadership style most likely to engage and create volunteers for their cause.

A leader is someone we follow irrespective of title or rank, fear or favour. Lead us the right way and we are unstoppable. Lead us the wrong way and we are immovable. It takes one-tenth the energy to lead an organisation if it is in volunteer mode, rather than ‘whinger’, ‘survivor’ or ‘prisoner’ modes.

We start by benchmarking your prevailing leadership style to pinpoint what you do well and to identify specific opportunities for improvement. We work with CEOs, Boards, senior teams, project teams and individuals to apply these cultural insights to create high levels of engagement.

And this in turn fast-tracks your project, strategy or change process to achieve your specific objectives ahead of schedule, increasing your ROI.

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The OZ Model…

Leaders, Bosses and Bastards…

Australian workplaces are unique. We are not mini-Americans although we share their love of sport, and we are not like the British, although we share a common ancestry. This explains why, in part, most imported leadership styles fail to resonate with an Australian workplace.

Key insights from the Study included in our coaching sessions, keynote addresses and training programs include:

• Understanding staff motivation and engagement in Australia.

• How to create ‘full-on’ volunteers for your strategy, project or cause.

• How to prevent staff slipping into ‘Whinger’, ‘Survivor’ or ‘Prisoner’.

• How to become an exceptional leader, and not simply a ‘Boss’.

• How to attract, retain and reward staff – what actually works?

• How to hold a ‘fair-dinkim’ no ‘BS’ performance discussion.

• Exploring the emotional journey from manager to leader.