Good karma in the workplace can offer benefits to both employees and the business itself. And it is all based on a few simple fundamentals. Believer of karma or not. It never hurts to dish out a bit of positive energy anyway. Karma is not just something made famous by colourful song star, Boy George,
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Is This The End Of Loyalty Cards?
I noticed something the other day when our team returned to working from the office. The café in our building has always offered loyalty cards to its patrons and I noticed over the first few days back, no one was using their loyalty cards when ordering coffees. I asked the guys behind the counter about
Using Goals to Navigate Through COVID-19
Goal setting is something that does not come naturally to me. I’ve always thought that setting goals was a bit “wishy-washy” and that if you wanted to do something, just get in and do it. Why did you need to talk about it, write it down and explain the steps? In my mind, that was
The Last Dance – COVID-19 version
The last few months have brought a lot of change to my every day life. I never thought that things could change so dramatically within a day. Monday was a day like any other. I would go to work, have face to face interviews, lunch with my colleagues and go to my soccer training. On
HOW GOOD IS YOUR BEST? Tips to bring your “A” game now
If ever there was a time to be at your best, it is now. Life is tough at the moment and it is swinging punches at us with a fury like never before. We can curl up and be pummeled or bring our “A” game and start punching back. Of course, I mean this figuratively
Leadership through a crisis
Well 2020 has sprung us all a few surprises – and not the good kind! Here in Australia, we started the year with severe droughts, severe bushfires and then, of course, the biggest impact to the global economy we have seen in a lifetime: a global pandemic in the form of Covid-19. So how do
Optimum Advice Episode 2 – Balance Your Team
We are continuing our Optimum Advice vlog series, and in today’s second episode we look at whether ‘hiring for culture-fit’ is good advice in an age where diversity is so important. In doing so, we will offer up a slightly better way of looking at this topic – balancing your team – as a strategy
Optimum Advice Episode 1: Balance Your Strengths
At Optimum Consulting, we are really keen to ensure our customers have access to the best advice available. There is plenty of bad advice out there. With this in mind, we started creating a video series that we call OPTIMUM v BAD ADVICE. In our inaugural episode, Jason looks at the common advice to develop
A great time for great advice.
Let’s agree, COVID-19 is already changing the global business environment in ways that could not have been imagined in January 2020. It is the pace of change that has caught everyone by surprise and whilst many things may return to ‘normal’ at some point in the future, there are some things that will have changed