Pay more to get more

Pay more to get more

Good candidates are hard to find, in times of low unemployment and high unemployment. Often when recruiting, clients want to ‘squeeze the lemon’. This is an expression regularly used by one of my clients, meaning they want to get as much as they can out of their...
The business case for culture-fit recruitment

The business case for culture-fit recruitment

Culture isn’t jeans Friday. And jeans Friday won’t generate better margins or more innovation or smarter programs. The heart of our business is culture-fit recruitment. What makes this critical to our clients’ competitive advantage is that it directly impacts an...
Are you under-pricing your offer?

Are you under-pricing your offer?

It may seem like a statement of the obvious that profit is linked to pricing and yet, all too often, companies set their pricing re-actively. I recently attended a ‘Pricing to Capture Value’ event, hosted by Consult Australia, and was most interested in the...
Will your 2IC successfully take over from you?

Will your 2IC successfully take over from you?

Success in an organisation often means the CEO and their 2IC make a great team. The CEO not only uses their 2IC as a sounding board, they also work well together. They make decisions and execute actions that lead to the delivery of their business plan and budget year...