I have stopped counting the number of times I have heard my clients complaining about the lack of ‘out of the box thinking’ from their teams or work colleagues. Managers ask me ‘why won’t my colleagues express their ideas or speak up when they can see something is not working?’ Have coached many managers and individuals in Asia, the crux of this seems to be tied to a combination of a lack of confidence in expressing and articulating ideas or concepts along with an ingrained habit of executing based on learning by rote.
Clearly there is no silver bullet to address this issue.… Read More»
This is not only a place to find out more about the company, services and people but also a go to place for interesting articles, resources and insights relating to our work. I have been fortunate enough to have worked on some fascinating and diverse projects in my career to date including profiling successful prison officers, providing personality feedback to natives in Papua New Guinea, devising an automated screening process to recruit over 8000 sales people in APAC and evaluating leadership potential of executives in South Korea via a translator! I want to use this blog to share some of my, and the wider Austen Advisory team’s insights and learnings from our experiences in the field.