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From manufacturing to superannuation, VECCI invited ten members from a diverse cross-section of industries to share their expectations for business and their sectors in 2015. Slade Group Chairman, Geoff Slade, responds. The canary in the coal mine may not be singing,...
Mornington’s agile mumpreneur
Slade Group Account Manager Liz Fleming was profiled this month in Mornington Life Magazine Mumpreneurs: Recruitment & Career Professional Now Working from her Peninsula Home and Business Times magazine's Bizzquiz in October 2014. Moving to the Mornington...
Seven ways to smile your way to the top
Smiling when we brand ourselves digitally is de rigueur. Just look at the photos we post on our social networks or the intranet, our professional profiles on LinkedIn and the company website. Personal branding is a necessity in today's connected talent market, but is...
Rich or Lean? Five ways to determine the best form of communicating a message.
It's easy to fall into lazy habits, mistaking the convenience of technology for impactful communication. How often do we stop to think about the control technology has on the way we communicate and how our messages are delivered? We have a nifty piece of technology at...
Back to the future in five headlines
What could have turned into a navel gazing memory trip for old timers, instead turned up a treat of unexpected prescience. Revisiting Slade Reports from the 1980s, we've uncovered some headlines that were surprisingly accurate and still have relevance 30 years later....
Technology is the answer, not the problem.
This month The Slade Report celebrates our first anniversary with a series of articles from the printed newsletter published under the same banner in the mid 1980s. Some 28 years ago we highlighted the importance of technology in shaping the world @work, which has...
Who’s a Career Casanova then?
Sadly the fast and furious route to executive placement can turn out to be like a pick-up bar – full of promise from both parties, though often empty and ultimately unfulfilling. Think Tinder and Good2Go. Urrgh. It gives the illusions of satisfaction but really? Like...
Beware the dangers of the overzealous non
In today's marketplace, organisations across all sectors are very conscious of the need to retain good talent. Understandably, they worry about their IP walking out the door and going to the highest bidder, or employees setting-up in opposition down the road and...
I feel like singing from the roof top!
It's interesting for an organisation to articulate its unique culture values. And it’s always a bit of argy bargy to settle on just four 'cultural values', or in plain English "the way we do things around here". Let me recall a planning meeting some eight years ago,...
Work is a thing we do, not a place we go.
I'm writing this article working from home (at 9:28am on a Thursday morning). I chose to do this due to the increased concentration afforded by the solitude of my apartment. It's amazing how productive I can be when I have a little space for myself; I've been trying...
A few minutes on mindfulness could be the gift of a lifetime
I was recently invited to a positive psychology talk (by my wife and daughter) with Smiling Mind – some of you may know the app? Being receptive to new ideas, I went along. I was impressed by the panel of speakers who included well-known psychologist Michael Carr...
Kicked in the guts
Each of us probably has a moment of truth in their career when harsh but true words are sent our way. In the lead up to this year's AFL Grand Final, I'm sharing my own personal experience. I was a 17 year old kid up from the country, drafted to the Melbourne Football...