Oh, to have had shares in Zoom before this all started. The COVID-19 isolation has turned our world upside down, and the education and training sectors have been forced to adapt faster than most. And adapt they have, using any number of conferencing apps to ensure the wheels of learning keep turning. Conferencing has worked for the most part; kids …
How do Leaders Motivate Teams?
How do Leaders motivate Teams? Christopher Whitnall: There’s a number of ways in which a leader can motivate their team. One of the ways is that they need to understand what motivates the people in the team: That some people are driven by intrinsic thinks. That is, they are driven by doing a good job or setting their own standards. …
Finding Motivation
Where do you find motivation? Christopher Whitnall: There’s a number of components to motivation. Generally, I believe people need to have a challenge, motivation often comes from inside and it’s often easier for people to motivated if they are passionate about what it is they’re trying to drive towards. There is also both the intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. So some things …
R U OK?
Why should you ask your team, ‘R U OK’? Christopher Whitnall: I think it’s important to ask people at work ‘R UK OK?’ because people spend a lot of time at work and a lot of times there are issues at work that are putting pressure on them. So to check in with people to see how they’re going with their …
Working with Not-For-Profits
Why is it important to work with not-for-profit and charity organisations? Siobhan Bryson: There’s so many. So sharing resources and experience. Weave gets exposed to the expertise and skills that a company like talkforce has to offer and gets to meet the fabulous people who work at talkforce. That’s invaluable to a charity like ours. And talkforce gets the opportunity, …
Hacking the Rockstar Attitude
by Kim Singline This week, I received an invitation from our lovely talkforce MD, Chris, to attend a keynote on all things leadership, engagement and performance, delivered by a man named Mark Schulman, here from LA due to his current gig of touring the world with PINK, as her drummer! I must admit, I had my doubts: I wondered how well-informed a muso could …
It’s NAIDOC Week
As many of you may be aware, this week is NAIDOC Week. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in …
How Facilitation before EOFY could unlock your company’s edge in 18/19
With only eight weeks left until EOFY, many businesses use the month of May as the time to determine what worked and what didn’t in the 2017/18 financial year. Logically, they do so with a lens towards what opportunities, trends and constraints face their businesses for the 2018/19 year ahead. For talkforce, we often work with clients to facilitate leadership …
talkforce announces Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan for April 2018 – April 2019
One of Australia’s leading corporate learning and development companies, talkforce has been endorsed by Reconciliation Australia, for its Reflect Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP). Founder and Managing Director of talkforce, Christopher Whitnall said acknowledging Australia’s rich indigenous culture was important for his business and their clients. “We are proud to live in a country with the oldest living cultural history on …
Why is coaching such a valuable tool in the workplace?
Written by talkforce Associate, Diana Cregan I’m not sure if you’ve noticed, but there is an increasing presence of external coaches in the workplace. We certainly have. Our coaching business has quadrupled in size over the last 12 months. But why is this? First, let’s agree on what coaching is and what it isn’t. There is a clear distinction between …
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