Visionary Organisations

Lets have a look at your beliefs about organisations and test some of the assumptions you make as to what it takes to become a visionary company.

Read each of the statements below and mark which of those you believe to be true and which you believe to be false:

• Highly successful companies make their best moves by brilliant and complex strategic planning
• Visionary companies require great and charismatic leaders
• The most successful companies exist first and foremost to maximise profits
• Visionary companies share a common subset of 'correct' core values
• The only constant is change
• Visionary companies are great places for everyone to work
• The most successful companies focus primarily on beating the competition
• Companies become visionary primarily through their vision statements

What's your score out of eight?

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Literacy in the Workplace

As a leading employer in civil infrastructure, Downer needs people who are competent in handling sophisticated machinery, with the ability to follow safety procedures and work in the most productive way.

It's a high-risk industry where safety is critical not only to employees operating heavy machinery but to the travelling public moving through "live" worksites.

Speed Thinking

Are you sick of sitting brainstorming session that waste time and talent and are no good at delivering decent ideas? Here's a different way generate new ideas that will transform the way you harness the genius in the room and create new and innovative solutions.  Try 'Speed Thinking' to get better ideas quicker from your brainstorming sessions.

Downer knew it had to lift the Literacy and Numeracy (LN) skills of its frontline workers. It called on The Learning Wave to develop a programme that addressed this pressing need. Read more...

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