Author: Steven Curry

Three Reasons To Change Your People System, Part 2: Is “Loyalty” Really Dead?

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Right now half your staff are thinking about leaving. Why don’t people care about the internal career anymore, and what can you do about it?   How to improve retention When we pitch CapabilityBuilder we share three startling metrics. Half of all first time managers fail. Half of your staff are thinking about leaving you. Half Read more about Three Reasons To Change Your People System, Part 2: Is “Loyalty” Really Dead?[…]

Pause and Refresh: CapabilityBuilder at PauseFest 2017

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Taking a product to the public for the first time isn’t just a sales exercise, it’s a learning opportunity! CapabilityBuilder at PauseFest 2017 Three days, over a hundred speakers and panellists, hundreds more attendees from across the Australian and international creative, communication and technology scenes, more VR than you can poke a virtual stick at, and Read more about Pause and Refresh: CapabilityBuilder at PauseFest 2017[…]

Sorry, you still need annual reviews

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The rush to replace performance management with agile, instantaneous and individualised feedback may sweep away the good with the bad. In a previous post we talked about why performance management fails, and mentioned a growing list of prominent businesses that are abandoning it. These leading companies, such as Deloitte, Accenture and Adobe have recognised that Read more about Sorry, you still need annual reviews[…]

Hire apprentices, not interns

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  Many business leaders complain that universities turn out graduates that are not “job ready”. We often hear about a “war for talent”, where businesses have to offer unsustainable salaries and benefits to get the skills they need. Meanwhile tech and creative-focused business increasingly use interns, a system that is coming under intense criticism. The Read more about Hire apprentices, not interns[…]