Slade Group Blog
HomeTrust: Build it and they will thrive.
Turnover is expensive. Conservatively estimated to be at least one and half times the annual salary attached to the role vacated. When turnover results in reputational damage, the costs can escalate exponentially. Not all turnover is bad, but when it's undesirable, it...
Excellence on repeat
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation… We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit… Aristotle 322 BC What makes a business relationship successful? Aristotle was onto something when he identified excellence as a learned...
Smart or simple?
Cash for hiring Over 50s. Do you have a point of view? And importantly what are the facts? We've been unable to ascertain if the $10,000 incentive to hire Over 50s who have been out of work for six months means they must have been registered with Job Services...
I’ve just seen the future. Wire up your jaw.
#1 Jaw dropper Google has just invested $250M in Uber. It's not the number that's interesting, it's the strategy. Why? Because of the Google Self-Driving Car, that driverless wonder. The Google car team has completed over 1,000,000 accident-free kilometres (minus one...
The old, the new and the art of education
The cavernous gallery echoes with distant voices. I stare, mesmerised by an angelic face, still and perfect. A girl with alabaster skin and golden locks, lying encased as if she were asleep, only with vacant, dead eyes. Paralysed mice surround her fragile form. The...
Opening the door to the boardroom
When Tim Boyle talks about celebrity chairs, dogmatic drones and dead debates, you might think he's describing prime time television. In fact it's the language of the boardroom. As an expert advisor with a Doctorate in Board Performance and Risk, and a partner in the...
Headhunting Indiana Jones
Headhunting for a senior project director with a love of adventure to work on a major infrastructure project in an exotic developing nation sounds like a job for Indiana Jones. But the task of attracting the right person has more challenges and pitfalls than you might...
Playing for keeps
Think back to your last recruitment project. It probably involved telephone screening, interviewing face-to-face and some form of psychometric testing. But I bet you didn't consider inviting your candidates to compete in a World of Warcraft like simulation? No matter...
Green shoots feed jobs confidence
Recruiters are capitalising on the rise and rise again of jobs. If the number of assignments retained by our firm and new vacancies are anything to go by, there is a strong case to support a resurgence of Australian jobs growth in the Executive market. Despite...
The truth is out there – Google it
As the new saying goes, online is forever. Some people have become quite sophisticated at hiding or diverting attention from their past, and embellishing their education or career, so the need for due diligence in the hiring process is becoming ever more important. I...
Stamping out rubber stamping
Have you ever lined up for a train ticket in rural India? It was as painful to watch as Rowan Atkinson packaging up that illicit Christmas gift in Love Actually... watching and waiting for that train ticket to actually make it into my hand reminded me that Australia...
Sharing a shot in the arm
Just as good as my flu vaccination this week, was the recent pep talk from another Doctor. A little bit painful, but just what I needed. Dr Jim Collins speaking at the WPO conference in LA emphasised that repeated and continuous improvement leads to greatness. It's...