#Culture
How to learn from the pandemic to optimise company culture
It’s more important than ever for employers to consider their company culture and how they will show employees they care as the new normal continues to shift.
Ensuring human connectedness in a technological age
Byline: Lindsay Brown, Vice President, APAC and Japan, LogMeIn The way we communicate and build relationships has changed drastically over the past decade. Just take a look at our workplaces. Many of us sit behind screens and speak to each other via internal chat programs rather than walking over to one another or picking up […]
How HR leaders can become advocates for software compliance
How to cultivate a culture of compliance throughout the company.
Forget “fail fast, fail often”, do these 3 things to scale your startup successfully
Empathise with your customer before you sell to them.
Can you stay true to your brand while growing your culture?
3 ways business leaders can preserve organisational culture
How to transform culture into more than a buzzword
Why culture is so important for success.
How to compete with the big guys when attracting talent to your small business
Attracting the right talent to your small business can be an uphill battle and as challenging to a business owner as any other macro force. Not only are you competing with players in your own sector, you’ve also got the big guys to contend with. You know the ones, big staffing budget, big, shiny training […]
Strong capital raising activity amongst Aussie startups: how to ensure you are investor ready
Australian startups are raising millions of dollars of venture capital funding, with recent high profile raises including Canva raising $50.9 million in January 2018, Hyper Anna raising $16 million in August 2017 and Culture Amp raising $26.4 million in June 2017. Hundreds of Australian startups are raising smaller amounts in seed and series A capital […]
We doubled our staff overnight: How to manage an explosion in business growth
Businesses often experience growing pains when their success requires them to expand their workforce. If not managed well, the business can be held back by inefficiencies, costly mistakes, existing employees leaving and clients feeling the stress. However, it is possible to grow in a way that brings your team and clients along for the journey […]
Why business ‘culture’ needs a new narrative
What does ‘culture’ in a corporate context really mean anyway? We all throw the term around with the assumption there is a common understanding of what it actually means, but I feel in its over use its lost its meaning and worth defining to set the scene. Most people would agree corporate or organisational culture […]
“It’s like Vegemite” – Why the business world has a love-hate relationship with culture
When it comes to business, culture is something of a ‘vegemite’ word: you either love it and embrace all that it stands for, or you hate it and avoid it at all costs. At Atomic 212°, we are tremendous believers in the virtue of strong culture, which we try to live by remembering that our […]
Despite increased diversity, ‘Boys Club’ culture has not disappeared… it has merely evolved
Working with corporate and executive teams around Australia, we’ve noticed an interesting trend: increasing talk of ‘Boys Club’ culture’. With the multitude of media reports of late exposing sexism and harassment within Uber’s executive teams, leaders have reasons to examine their own company culture for anything untoward. Minor forms of exclusion can bubble beneath a […]
Diversity can be a double-edged sword when businesses don’t have systems to harness it
There’s a lot of research into diversity and its impact on the workforce. The main message that’s currently broadcast is that diversity is a great thing and beneficial to business. It can be a good thing, but it can also be problematic. I looked into both these aspects in my recent PhD into diversity in […]
Leadership succession: how to step into the shoes of a founder and build on their legacy
It’s not always easy to take up a CEO role. It can be easier if no one liked your predecessor. It can be harder if you’re taking over from the founder and harder still if the founder is still in the business. The nature of the challenge depends somewhat on the stage at which the […]
People, processes and culture: don’t let these three innovation enablers become roadblocks
Businesses, both small and large, should know by now that innovation is the key to competing in the digital age, and that longevity isn’t possible without a culture that is inherently innovative A report by IBM provides evidence that creativity is at the heart of innovation, revealing that executive leaders consider creativity the most crucial […]
“Each day is an adventure”: why Brett Kaplan quit the corporate world to join a start-up
In February 2016, Brett Kaplan – a veteran of the corporate world – ‘flew the coop’ to become CFO of online home services marketplace Oneflare. Founded just five years earlier by serial entrepreneurs Marcus Lim and Adam Dong, the fast-growing Sydney tech start-up provided the enterprising South African with relief from an itch big business […]
So, you’ve inherited a leadership role. What can you learn from your predecessor’s exit?
It’s January. Over the break, you discovered that your CEO or senior executives won’t be coming back after the holidays or if they are, they won’t be staying for long – and you’ve been selected to fix up the mess once they’re gone. How should you go about it? It depends on where your predecessor/s went wrong… […]
How to enhance innovation in your workplace
Does your business have a culture in which innovation thrives? Are people challenging the status quo and being encouraged by leaders to take risks in pursuit of innovation? Or is the opposite true, whereby people don’t take time to listen to new ideas and suggestions? Building a culture of innovation is hard work. However, the […]
The secret to building an authentic company
Steve Jobs may have almost made the turtleneck fashionable again, but it was Mark Zuckerberg who really kicked off the “casual clothes in the office” trend. But it wasn’t just the fact that the clothes were casual that stirred things up. It was the fact that the style was so authentic to Zuckerberg. As the line […]
Define your culture…now, is that the reality?
Every company likes to think they have a great culture but if you ask each member of the leadership team to sum theirs up, most will give vague, airy answers that don’t match. This is because most companies don’t actually have a uniting culture. Often in the corporate world you get an amalgamation of cultures or distinct […]
On board, raring to go and driven to succeed: the value of creating a culture of team-ship
A managing director arrives at her desk to a bottle of wine and a ‘thank you’ note from her team. They’re expressing gratitude for a fun afternoon away from the office celebrating the Melbourne Cup as a team. No leave time was recorded – the out-of-office activity was a gesture of goodwill. The managing director understands the importance of developing a culture of […]
“We empower people to challenge the status quo”: Employsure’s founder on work culture
By shifting away from a focus on individual capabilities, emphasising company values and providing staff with a pleasant and supportive work environment, Employsure has produced excellent results, according to founder and managing director, Edward Mallett. Last month, the employment relations and WHS solutions provider ranked thirteenth in BRW’s 2016 Most Innovative Companies List and was […]
Offshoring can reduce operational costs – but the process must be properly managed
In order to reap the benefits of offshoring non-core competencies, SMBs must effectively communicate the process to onshore staff while ensuring there is cultural transference, according to Scott Stavretis, the CEO of Acquire BPO, Australia’s largest outsourcer to the Philippines. Stavretis recently spoke to Dynamic Business about offshoring including the advantages for businesses, his predictions for the […]
Rackspace ANZ tops best places to work list
Cloud service provider Rackspace ANZ has placed first in the 2016 ‘Best Places to Work‘ study among companies with under 100 employees. Meanwhile, Salesforce placed first among companies with more than 100 employees. About the Best Places to Work study The study, now in its ninth year, is a list 25 companies with under 100 employees and 25 companies […]