Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd In wrapping up this project the ThinkEvans team put focus on the purposes of the organisation (what are we here to do?) and aligning activities accordingly (how are we going to do it?), to make a strong foundation from which to measure outcomes (how well…
Staff development workshops
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd To voice the project focus on options for adding skills to the team for best effect in sustainability terms, the team worked with the client’s team to consider options from a multidisciplinary perspective. The main session was held in Wollongong, with a follow up session…
Sabbatical postcard: coffee on the road, for one
When it comes to decision making and governance, there is probably no bigger stage than that of the United Nations. There are many other organisations that may well have more, or more obvious, influence – like multinational corporations that design our lives with their products and redesign our planet with the impact of their production…
Board briefing
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd The briefing dealt with the quantitative analysis of the supply side of this complex market, and the organisational options going forward. With the Board’s endorsement, this will now provide the basis for team briefings in the new year. The south coast of New South Wales,…
Sabbatical postcard: a dash of dissent in your coffee on the road
For those of us fascinated by leadership and decision making, Australia’s first time in three decades as UN Security Council President has been, to say the least, underwhelming. Any whelm was certainly hard to find in the one topic put forward for formal debate by Australia in the Presidential role – small arms. Not unimportant…
Sunset on a project
Client: Board of Directors, Grand Pacific Health Ltd As part of further implementing the merger of two previous Divisions of General Practice, re-think the executive structure and division of responsibilities in the senior team, and assist the Chair to select a preferred candidate for CEO for consideration by the board. The Board endorsed the recommended…
Sabbatical postcard … coffee on the “crowded” road
On sabbatical from consulting, while travelling in England for her PhD research Managing Director Carolyn Evans has discovered a whole new meaning to fighting the crowd to get coffee. Staying at the University of Warwick in Coventry, this was the crowd scene at the local coffee spot on the banks of the River Sherbourne. Having…
Can’t see the wood for the trees?
Internal projects naturally drive additional business activity and costs but our experience at ThinkEvans indicates they do not always result in an appropriate return on investment. So what is going wrong? Here we look at some of the classic issues we see in businesses and suggest a few actions to start successfully delivering the projects…
Digesting growth to leverage learning
Client: Board of Directors, Coast City Country General Practice Training Ltd In an environment of growth and success in winning and delivering on contracts, the principal objective of this project is to provide an independent viewpoint and make recommendations on options to evolve team capabilities to support sustainable operations over the long term. The project focus…
Coffee on the (long, long) road
Embarking on the long, long road to a PhD, our Managing Director Carolyn was this week advised she will receive an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). Her scholarship is tenable for three years. Carolyn was also awarded a further scholarship by the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law, given to top-ranked APA recipients in recognition…
Cake with your coffee on the road
Join our virtual workplace event in August – support the cause and get a cake! We are supporting the Red Cross Big Cake Bake event this year, and will be handing out the cakes that we make to those who contribute to our fundraising for this wonderful cause. To make a donation, click on the…
Post-merger integration for the Board
Client: Board of Directors, Grand Pacific Health Ltd As part of further implementing the merger of two previous Divisions of General Practice, review current Board and committee charters and related documents, and propose a body of governance documents for Board activities. A Board policy manual was approved by the Board 30 May 2013 and an…
Inside out strategic planning
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local (operated by Grand Pacific Health Ltd) Following on from our earlier survey, ThinkEvans is providing a different lens for leveraging the outcomes as a strategic planning case study.
Coffee while paddling on the road to human rights
We may not have needed more inspiration from coffee to paddle hard in the Amnesty International Australia dragon boat team, but we sure did need a reviver between races! As part of a team of volunteers put together just for the Chinese New Year festival at Darling Harbour in Sydney, ThinkEvans Managing Director Carolyn and…
Coffee on the road … in cyberspace!
Since being interviewed in 2009 about how we help our clients but are never “stuck behind a desk“, we have continued to walk the talk of virtual workspaces – it is really just the most practical solution for many of us in contemporary organisations.* Since we are not at all shy about our adventures in…
Coffee on the geopolitical road
After three decades more or less confined to the peanut gallery of the United Nations, the indications now are that Prime Minister Julia Gillard will support a bid by Australia to become an elected member of the United Nations Security Council (for which former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is widely acknowledged as having had considerable…
Survey results yield strong strategic directions
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local After garnering more than 90 completed responses to the survey of professional development needs from those working in primary health care, ThinkEvans continues to collaborate with CCCGPTraining to develop strategic insights from the results.
Assessing professional development needs
Client: Illawarra-Shoalhaven Medicare Local As part of a collaboration with CCCGPTraining, ThinkEvans has launched a survey of primary health care providers in the Illawarra-Shoalhaven area, to gather evidence for assessing professional development needs of those working in primary health care.
What’s with the coffee thing?
Right from when we were first in business, our work was fuelled by our unashamed coffee habit – and not just for its welcome inspirational qualities! Our business model has been to have lower financial risks, and be more flexible for clients and for our team members, by the simple expedient of not having business…
2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards
The Strangers’ Dining Room of Parliament House was the scene this week for the 2012 NSW Women of the Year Awards, which saw a fantastic variety of women recognised for their professional, personal and community endeavours. Women who had been nominated as a Local Women of the Year by their Member of NSW Parliament were…
Productivity and Fair Work final report released
Client: the Australian Business Foundation The NSW Business Chamber has published online the final report of the project Productivity and Fair Work, an independent project led by the Australian Business Foundation Engaged by the Australian Business Foundation, ThinkEvans undertook research and investigation into how the Fair Work system impacts the productivity of businesses in Australia….
Is your organisation organised?
Before making organisational design decisions that will be productive and sustainable, enabling sound planning for the future, the organisation needs to be able to articulate its current state clearly. Already cringing? This is more than just consultant-speak or HR waffling: it is as simple as knowing where you are so you can work out…
Channel 9 Melbourne: ‘Cash lure’ for older workers
This report was the lead item on the Channel 9 6pm news bulletin in Melbourne on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The article drew on ThinkEvans research into the changing nature of working life, including the dramatic rise over the last decade in workforce participation by women 55-64 years. The ThinkEvans analysis looked at data from…
Good news, bad news … & 6 o’clock news
ThinkEvans’ research on the changing nature of working lives has had spawned discussion right around Australia this week – after an article on page 4 of the Sydney Morning Herald* on Tuesday, 10 April, quoting our research. (Read more about the research) Radio stations in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney and Perth interviewed Managing Director Carolyn…
Women vote with their feet to top up their super
Women in the “transition to retirement years” are voting with their feet to top up their super. In the course of conducting research for our “Fair Enough?” report submitted recently to the Australian Business Foundation, we also found that women in Australia are rethinking their super – with many finding that their situation is likely…
Changing to grow
Client: Good Grief Ltd Assist the Board of Directors and senior team with the annual strategic planning cycle, including how to embrace new business models and developing an agreed set of outcomes for the next three years.