Behavioural Interviews: History Always Repeats Behavioural interviewing, or targeted selection interviewing, is increasingly used to identify suitable candidates for upcoming positions. Based on the principle that past behaviour is the best indicator of future behaviour, a behavioural interview will encourage you to delve into how you handled past work situations. Your response to behavioural interview […]
Read more →An Attitude of Gratitude!
Driving home home the other night after an exhausting day at work with the traffic starting to irritate me, I couldn’t help but notice the stunning sunset across the bay. My mind calmed and I thought of how beautiful my life and the universe can be, if I only notice and focus on the positive. […]
Read more →How Do I Find My Passion & Make A Career Out Of It?
My clients are often puzzled by the directive of ‘finding their passion’ and making a career out of it. They think that this piece of advice sounds great in theory, but are unsure where to even begin when it comes to identifying their passion in the first place. I usually tell them that a good […]
Read more →You lost an hour
You lost an hour over the weekend. Yes, the dreaded “spring forward” of daylight savings time. Here in Australia we set our clocks ahead one hour to shift the day for more daylight and the seasons. Of course, this meant one less hour in your day on Sunday. What did you lose? Sleep? Exercise? Quiet […]
Read more →Are you cool enough to work here?
This question may be part of the advertising for recruiting new IT staff in a Government Public Department. What does this mean exactly? It makes the point that selecting for culture fit is so much more important than skills. You can test for skills, you can see their experience and abilities on their resume but […]
Read more →Personality-focused recruitment “fraught” with bias
Recruitment trends that increase focus on a candidate’s personality and presentation are compromising organisations’ abilities to source top talent, organisational experts warn. Most employers are now familiar with the concept of unconscious bias, but Australian Human Resources Professionals (AHRP) psychologist and international facilitator Glenda May says she is “really anxious” about emerging practices that not […]
Read more →We are all biased!
We are all biased or prejudiced to some degree. Prejudice simply means pre-judging someone, before we have supporting or contradictory evidence. Why is there so much attention to our psychological tendency to be biased or prejudiced? Because our decision-making might result in outcomes we didn’t intend. Our unconscious biases can affect our decision-making with respect to […]
Read more →NSW Government addresses “unconscious bias” concerns
In light of my recent presentation on Unconscious Bias in the Workplace in Japan, I was happy to read that the New South Wales government’s behavioural insights team has addressed increasing concerns regarding unconscious bias in recruitment by releasing a guide to encourage public service workforce diversity strategies. The guidebook, which came out earlier this […]
Read more →Some Reflections on Leadership
Listening to Her Excellency the Honourable Linda Dessau AM, Governor of Victoria, during her presentation on Reflections on Leadership recently inspired me to come up with some of my own reflections on leadership. The breakfast for AIM Fellows reiterated just what it means to be a leader. It is drilled into us that leaders are […]
Read more →Coaching versus Mentoring
Have you ever asked yourself the question; “If all the great athletes need a coach, why don’t I?” or “What exactly is coaching? And how does it differ from mentoring?” Although the arts of mentoring and coaching have been developed over many centuries, there are no formally agreed definitions. Pursuing the athletics metaphor, one helpful […]
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