Mettle Consulting - On Your Mettle podcast series

On Your Mettle Episode 9 - Is there a clash between a firm’s or organisations desired culture and the firm’s actual way of working?

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:15:00 GMT

In this podcast we address the ‘why’s and the how’s’ of the clash many Firms are experiencing in their desired culture and the actual way the Firm operates in a day-to-day. The focus of the debate is that once you identify the gaps between desired and actual culture you can pragmatically shift the ‘ways of doing things around here’ to mirror the desired culture and benefit from the strategic advantages an effective culture can deliver.

On Your Mettle Episode 8 - Creating a culture that will attract, retain and develop your talent

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Thu, 7 Jan 2008 12:00:00 GMT

This On Your Mettle Podcast discusses how leaders and organisations can create and maintain a culture that will attract, retain and develop talent. We also provide a 'though leadership insight' into a future podcast "The workplace of 2020", which looks at how leaders can prepare for the required shift in leadership methodologies, culture and workplace design. Read any HR or Leadership article and you will most likely come across a reference to the staff attraction and retention challenge that is facing organisations. This podcast oulines practical solutions leaders can execute to address this critical issue. The solution to retaining staff does not involve throwing quantities of money or knee-jerk benefits at staff, rather, as the results of a recent salary survey conducted by Michael Page International which polled 33-- employers and 2100 employees cited career advancement as a reason for moving on, yet only 9% said more money was the primary motivator. To put it plainly, the solution to the staff attraction and retention issues come down to more intensive and smarter management from business leaders. As a recent BRW article said, the next five years will be even tougher for management as the problem is being compounded by the global economy - employers need to protect their human assets, not just against domestic competitors, but also against overseas talent hunters.

On Your Mettle Episode 7 - The Critical Role Leaders, Culture & Structure must play to embrace CSR

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT

This On Your Mettle Podcast discusses the critical role leaders, culture and structure must play within organisations to realistically embrace CSR and how to create a CSR ethos through your leaders, culture and structure. Media stories, company annual reports and environmental findings continuously address issues around the need for organisations to engage in CSR. With the global focus clearly on how business can reduce their impact on the environment, this podcast outlines solutions and steps leaders can take to meet employee, customer and societal demands and how to build a culture and create employee engagement around building a sustainable socially responsible organisation.

On Your Mettle Episode 6 - The Neuroscience of Leadership and its Link to Culture

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT

This podcast discusses several insights from neurosciences that assist us in improving leadership and culture in organisations including: Understanding the attention deficit trait (ADT); The power of meditation and why it will lead to less ADT, more innovation and better leadership in our culture; The counterintuitive findings that neuroscience is showing us about culture change; The trust as well as the respect and suspension we need to put in use our “Blink” like intuition; and Nurturing the diversity of thought processes, particularly as they related to men and women.

On Your Mettle Episode 5 - How Structure and Systems Link to Culture

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Wed, 6 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Mettle Groups' research and 20 years experience shows that business strategy works best when backed by congruent behaviour, symbols and systems and aligning the culture to the businesses strategy. The key discussion points throughout this podcast are "If culture is about 'how things are done around here', how does a business go about aligning or strengthening its culture and if everything including structure and systems are interlinked with strategy and culture, where does a business start in connecting strategy, culture, structure and systems?"

On Your Mettle Episode 4 - How Effective Measurement Tools Enable Competitive Advantage

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Companies can create competitive advantage by combating internal efficiencies and generate an impetus for long-term change. While changing culture requires planned effort, you can take some very practical steps to begin to position your organisation for growth and to gain competitive advantage.

On Your Mettle Episode 3 - The Role Culture plays in setting Companies up for Growth

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:00:00 GMT

On Your Mettle Episode 2 - The Role of Culture in Managing Risk

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Sun, 1 Apr 2007 19:00:00 GMT

The impact of culture, leadership and employee motivation has been well researched independently, and much evidence has been found to highlight the importance of managing the people side of business.

On Your Mettle Episode 1 - Building high performance teams

cmccallum@mettle.com.au (Mettle Group Ltd Pty) — Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:00:00 GMT

Katharine McLennan and Justin Papps from the Mettle Group talk about how to develop a high performance team, what influences the success of a team and the impact of company culture.