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Manager levers for employee engagement

What characteristics do managers need to have to promote a culture of high engagement? Elissa Farrow provides a list to guide you.

March 1, 2013

Organisational culture levers for employee engagement

Organisational culture is enriched by a commitment to open communication, ethics and values and innovation. Elissa Farrow shows how these combined can lead to a culture of engagement.

February 20, 2013

Blogs
Change

Collaborative project management predictions for 2013

If the famous French seer, Nostradamus, was still alive, what trends would he predict for collaborative project management in 2013? asks LiquidPlanner’s Charles Seybold. Would he see channel convergence for task management or a new way of driving innovation?

January 2, 2013

Tools

Finding opportunities from outside a project

Often those of us involved in a project are simply too close to daily issues to see the potential for real value-adding innovations and opportunities, writes Roger La Salle. Here’s how to find inspiration from outside a project.

December 5, 2012

Basic
Risk

Brookfield Multiplex darling of construction project awards

Construction company Brookfield Multiplex has won the International Hotel Awards’ Best New Hotel Design and Construction accolade for its Sydney project The Darling at The Star. The award, presented in London earlier this month, joins the contractor’s golden run at the NSW Master Builder Awards

November 26, 2012

News

Governance for programs and Agile projects

Governance is currently associated with disaster prevention, risk mitigation and consequently, tighter controls. These systems stifle innovation and create an oppressing culture in organisations where everybody feels that they should protect themselves rather than contribute to value creation. Michel Thiry explains how governance should actually work.

November 12, 2012

Winning project alliances reflect culture of value

Four of Australasia’s most cost-efficient, high quality, timely and innovative project alliances won awards at the 2012 Alliancing Association of Australasia’s Excellence Awards last week, reflecting the current culture of value, said AAA acting chief executive Ron Quill.

October 29, 2012

News

$1 million for innovative Victorian water projects

Victoria’s Smart Water Fund has announced that it will make available $1 million in funding to support innovative urban water projects. The release of funding will be the Smart Water Fund’s 10th round, with applications opening in mid-October.

October 1, 2012

News