Meet Jackie Sincock. Jackie has spent the best part of 25 years contributing to the health and disability sectors. Her career began on the front line as a registered nurse where she accumulated valuable knowledge and experience and made many … Read More
Q and A with Ashley Brown: Change and Disruption from The Other Side
Ashley Brown has seen it all. From working as a team member at Dairy Farmers, managing Gold Valley Crusta Juices, to eventually becoming State and then National Safety Manager at Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) for the better part of eight years. … Read More
Crafting Collaborations: A Little Less Talk, A Little More Action
Anyone who has attended a business conference, workshop or after-hours networking event would have heard the term ‘collaboration’ mentioned many times. Just collaborate already! We’re reminded constantly that the industry relies on collaboration, that there would be so many opportunities … Read More
Why Ignoring Your Strengths Can Reduce Vulnerability
From a young age, we are always taught to find what we’re good at and leverage off of our skillset. What we aren’t taught or shown, is how to identify our own skill gaps and work on threats and risks … Read More
Socially responsible learning in a time of redundancy
Source: This article originally appeared in Training & Development magazine – Organisational Resilience, September 2019 Vol. 46 No. 3, published by the Australian Institute of Training and Development. Kiikstart was proud to create the most engaged team even in the face of … Read More
Lessons learnt from a day spent with the New York Fire Department
Being able to spend a day in the field undertaking training with the FDNY on Randall’s Island, New York, is a rare experience. One that will always be respected and treasured. A huge shout out to a team leader Art … Read More
Luke Williams, Clinical Associate Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Stern School of Business, New York University People outlive ideas. We need to be looking at challenging and changing commonly held practices and beliefs every 5 to 7 years. This fact raises the point of how relevant a 10 year … Read More
Anat Lechner, PHD, Stern School of Business, New York University. Part 4 of 4: New age digitisation and AI.
In an age of digitisation and AI, what are the greatest fears in terms of their financial performance? Employees won’t upgrade skills fast enough Workers will not be adaptable enough Employers will lack requisite technical skills Businesses will be unable … Read More
Anat Lechner, PHD, Stern School of Business, New York University. Part 3 of 4: The old order is dead.
In the coming decades, it is predicted that 2 billion roles will be wiped out and governments and organisations will be without systems to respond to it. Already, organisations must be asking what parts of job roles can be digitalised. … Read More
Anat Lechner, PHD, Stern School of Business, New York University. Part 2 of 4: Technology and how it directly relates to high value output.
The end goal should not be digital disruption in itself. The end goal needs to be the lessons learnt as it relates to end-to-end customer experience. Rather than focusing on the execution of the technology, focus on how you can adopt … Read More