by Richard Dunlop | Feb 7, 2022 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
Thinking about how best to make your new team member feel valued from the very beginning takes little time or effort, but the impact can certainly be lasting. I was lucky enough to take six months off in 2021 (which unfortunately coincided with yet another lockdown in...
by Anita Ziemer | Dec 15, 2021 | The Slade Report
Twice this year, separately on Zoom and in face-to-face interview, two senior executives started speaking about their Super Powers; as in “my Super Power is problem solving” or “my Super Power is building consensus”. And as those words sprouted forth from their...
by Samantha Cotgrave | Oct 8, 2021 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
Remember 2019? It was late that year when I took the Melbourne-based role of General Manager for Slade Group and the Interchange Bench. I’d come fresh off an extended break, including giving myself the time to do the Camino De Santiago Trail, to find some ‘me time’...
by Catherine DeVrye | Jul 19, 2021 | The Slade Report
As we’re more than half way through 2021 and those of us in Australia enter a new financial year amidst lockdown, the covid chaos of the past 18 months remains a challenge. Like many, I recently moved to a home office after selling my business premises. It took ages...
by Chris Toussaint | Jul 1, 2021 | Interchange Bench, The Slade Report
While you may have seen more colours than usual in your social feed over the last month during Pride*, it’s not always all rainbows and unicorns for LGBTQI+ people at work. Our level of acceptance and comfort varies from occupation to industry, geographic location and...