Blogs

People Change When It Makes Sense: The Power of Human-Centered Change

Different parts of our lives are always changing. We manage through the transitions of life with ...

Sensemaking: Reframing Change Management

Throughout the course of my ten-year career in change management, I've witnessed how companies are ...

Bridging the Gap in Change Management: Beyond Frameworks to Real Skills

Throughout my extensive experience in managing organisational change, I have witnessed initiatives ...

Demystifying Systems Thinking: A Practical Guide for Change that Makes Sense

In today's fast-paced business environment, ill-considered and poorly planned change is costly. ...

Tips for Onboarding and Unleashing Your Team's Change Superpowers

Picture this: a new teammate joins your crew, all excited and ready to roll. But wait, how do you ...

What improvements would you make with $200 million for Digital Transformation?

The South Australian Government’s digital investment of 200 million in the State Budget 2023-2024 ...

Bring me Problems, not Solutions

“Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!” We’ve all heard it, and I even remember getting this ...

Reflecting on 5 Years of Growth and Teamwork

Five years ago, after five years of solo freelancing, I decided to create a consultancy where I ...

Is there any value in your company values?

I’m going to go out on a limb and assume everyone reading this has been part of a company that has ...

Are you stuck in a "Culture Story" that's creating a bad experience at work?

There was once an argument between the wind and the sun about who was stronger... starts the Aesop ...

Help your new hires to stick

We are currently in the midst of a period many are referring to as ‘the great resignation’, and ...

Trust them with the change...

How to hold people Accountability without shame or blame

Can't find anyone for that role you've advertised? Try this instead

I want to introduce you to a new way of thinking about the workforce. Generally, we think about our ...

People at the Heart of Transformation

Our goal at SynergyIQ is to create a new way of consulting. Driven by our values - grit, optimism, ...

How CEOs can build a resilient workforce post COVID19

COVID19 is the word on everyone’s lips. Even when we want to discuss something as mundane as the ...

COVIDsafe Plans for Returning to Workplaces

“Are you ready for people to come back into the workplace post COVID19 restrictions?”

Life Is Messy… Enjoy It! Keeping Calm And Balanced Whilst Running A Business

“The middle is messy, but that’s where the magic happens.” Another brilliant quote from my girl ...

Digital Transformation is about People’s Choice to Change, not Technology

We’ve all been there.

Grief: We’re in Crisis and it Hurts. Dealing With Business And Personal Uncertainty

I don’t know about you but I’m feeling the pain of COVID-19.

How To Use Your Mistakes To Improve Leadership And Business Outcomes

I drove my 6yo daughter to the doctors this week, pulling up into diagonal parking on the street ...

COVID19: Your business and uncertainty – your questions answered

Well, that turned quickly, didn’t it? A few months ago we were like ‘corona-what?’ Now it’s on ...

Create a High Performing Culture In Your Business

Many business owners I know tell me that they want a performance culture. That is they would like a ...

What do people really need right now? How to remain calm and focused leading a business in our current world.

Logging in to your social media channel of choice and your certain to access a multitude of people ...

How many people left during your last change?

Companies worldwide are interested in the Staff Attrition metric. If the attrition metric is high, ...

Culture Change through the eyes of an exhausted leader

Just imagine for a moment that you are an exhausted leader. For many reading this it won’t be a far ...

Culture and Human Resources are not interchangeable

Culture is not just a capability, it’s not just about the workforce; it’s not just about the ...

2020 Was a Year for Learning

When I woke up on 1 January 2020 I thought about the things I wanted to achieve that year. I hadn’t ...

Culture change happens through evolution… not revolution

What is culture?

What does ‘Benefits Realisation’ mean in a change project?

What is benefits realization?

Innovation Culture

One of the areas that we get the most questions in is how do I change my culture so that people ...

Dale Carnegie’s 30 Principles To Win Friends & Influence People

In 1936, Dale Carnegie’s very famous self-help book“How to Win Friends and Influence People”hit the ...

Don’t ask the question, if you don’t want the answer.

Many businesses engage change practitioners (internal and external) to give them advice about ...

Why do you want to change your culture?

If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, the chances are you’ve heard the term culture ...

Are you an authentic leader? Grab these five books and find out…

Authenticity… it’s a buzz word that we use in organisations. What we’ve found to be true is that ...

What is all the fuss with Stakeholder Management?

What is stakeholder management, and why do change people bang on about it all the time?

How to have quick corridor coaching conversations

As a “busy leader”, said in sarcastic quotation marks, because let’s be frank… we’re all busy. Why ...

How to Have a Real Conversation at Work

Having meaningful and authentic conversations at work is a topic that comes up a lot when talking ...

There’s no such thing as an Internal Customer

Why are we persisting with the terms ‘external’ and ‘internal’ customers?