New Year, new ways to work! Opportunities 2023?

New Year, new ways to work! Opportunities 2023?

One of the best things about the New Financial year is that mid-year you can reset!

So now you are likely back from a mid-year break? Time to make 2023 powerful for you and your team. Finding and keeping talent is one of the top 10 challenges facing businesses today (Banking and Financial Review 2022).

Our surveys are not showing “the great resignation”, but in fact Australians are loyal to the company that supported them through the pandemic. Sea changes can still happen, as hybrid ways of working are now acceptable.

The biggest challenge that we are seeing today is staff motivation – with the challenge of managing staffing rosters, absenteesim and maximising full scale operations.

The cost of presenteeism and absenteeism in Australia in 2016 was $6.3 billion per year1 whereas now in 2022, this has risen to $32.5 Billion a year 2.

So what are ways to build a productive team in the New Financial Year?

Keep people focused on their immediate tasks.

Encourage people to focus on the present tasks at hand – show clear pathways forward and let your team focus on smart steps ahead. Regularly recognise the small steps! When people are “in the zone” anxiety reduces and creativity goes up, thus improving team motivation!

Let people feel supported and heard.

Encouraging all ideas and contributions from employees. Encourage “a yes culture”, embracing all ideas. For example at Amazon, if you say no to an idea you have to create a paper to explain why it won’t work.

Get to know your whole employee

Agree and share a few of their goals both within the workplace and at a personal level. Know their drivers – is it career challenge, a career pathway, workplace offerings and/or a good salary & incentive program to kick their financial goals?

Find them a mentor

Gallup Surveys show that employees are 83% more engaged if they feel someone in their company ” has their back”. Mentors can give unbiased support and inspiration, with no agendas.

Imagine your workplace where employees are energised and 5 times more productive?

So think about how you will recruit for the New Financial Year, “finding doers not moers!”

 

References
1 Safe Work Australia report
2 Bodycare Workplace Solutions 2022

Start Your New Financial Year with Flow!

The river flows the best in the centre! Imagine your employees all working in the flow? Employees aligned, energised and action orientated? Doers not Moers!

We look for talent that demonstrates being “ in the flow”. We look for people who demonstrate risk-taking, creativity, health, well-being, are agile and progressive thinkers, rather than looking only for industry experience and key competencies. Forget about age, race or gender and focus on people in the flow!

 

“Did you know that employees “ in the flow “ are five times more productive?”

– Steven Kotler, The art of the Impossible 

Have you noticed that when you are in the flow, time stops and creativity flows?

There are many words that describe ” flow” : Uninterrupted attention, total absorption, sense of self vanishes, time dilates and all aspects of performance exceed, allowing for every idea to flow.

Musicians call it “ being in the pocket” When we feel our best we perform our best. Every action leads to high-speed creative decision making. Flow is fundamental to well being, and people with the most well being, have the most flow in their life. In sports and the arts, flow is a state of the heart. You are “in sync”.

The Science of flow began in the late 1880s

Flow is definable – and it is measurable. When we are “in the flow “ anxiety reduces, our sense of self disappears and memory of the past and future drops, (leading to less depression and anxiety) when your sense of self disappears, self-sabotage goes, risk-taking goes up, creativity goes up, a huge boost of positive neural transmitters occurs. This deadens pain and impacts cognitive processes such as motivation and creativity.

The brain can take novel information, and bring it into an idea, from past ideas, to make a new action, pattern recognition goes up, risk-taking goes up. Flow speeds up learning. Learning rates grow – flow can cut mastery in half. The state of flow dispels old theories that you need to do 10,000 hours to master a skill. Flow follows focus: Allows us to stay in the now and deliver with speed and ease.

What are ways to create flow and build high performance in the workplace?

People need to feel safe and supported and that their ideas will be heard. Encourage all ideas and contributions from employees, partner them with an internal mentor and ideally an external mentor. Gallup Surveys show that employees are 83% more engaged if they feel someone in their company has their back and external mentors can give unbiased support and inspiration, with no agendas.

So allow employees to share their ideas in brainstorming sessions, don’t cut down any idea, allow the flow. Don’t say no —- institutionalise”a yes culture”, embracing any idea… at Amazon … if you say no to an idea you have to create a paper to explain why it won’t work. Sometimes ideas are “hairbrained”,  but allow them to be heard and guide direction to what will be the best solution for all.

Imagine your workplace where employees were always in the flow?
So think about how you will build a “ workplace in the flow”, think about how you will recruit for the New Financial Year, Finding doers not Moers!

Please reach out if you need help. If you would like a confidential chat please make a booking here.

Think Talent, Think Global – Innovative support for Ukraine

IMSA Search Global Partners has successfully assisted clients with their global and local senior talent needs for over 30 years. With 50+ offices in 25+ countries on 5 continents, their 220+ Executive Search experts spanning the globe.

Some of the most creative organisations today have realised that talent can work remotely, in any part of the globe. You can now form a “ United Nations team” and have your organisation working 24 hours around the clock. You can build diverse thinking, capacity and marketplace reach by thinking global for your talent acquisition. No longer is the world confined by one set office space.

Reach out if you are thinking of building a global team and supporting your hiring challenges with executives from around the world.

sallan@imsa-search.com

The President of IMSA Search is based in Poland and can now provide support to professional Ukrainians to Australian companies seeking talent. Please reach out if you are interested in this support program to import talent from Ukraine and help families in need.

Please email: Carmela@mondosearch.com.au

Think Big! Love Your Work

“If you do what you love you’ll never work a day in your life​” – Marc Anthony

SEEK released results that more than 1/3 of people are unhappy in their role. At Mondo Search, we have been operating for 24 years in recruitment and our research says that this statistic is conservative, sadly we believe more than 60% of people are unhappy in their roles. Converge International recently stated that 66% of Australian workers are unhappy in their role.

Why are people working in roles that they’re not happy in?

  • People are afraid of change
  • People are fearful of the future
  • Society expectations
  • Financial security more than – ABS in 2016 74% of households in Australia held debt, averaging $168 000. Credit card debt held by 55% of households

How do you find a role that you enjoy?

There are five key motivators in a role

1) The leadership                                              2) The workplace offerings and culture     

3) The career challenge & stretch                    4) The Learnings and

5) Financial Reward

Look at these 5 motivators when considering employment.

Think about what are your best skills where and when you were most happy? There are many online tests to look at your commercial strengths such as the strengthsfinder by Marcus Buckingham. Understand that some of your worst jobs can help you build resilience, often it is not until you hit rock bottom that you will make change.

Start to future proof your career – build a long-term engaging network from school or University, to past and present work colleagues. When people like to help others and when they do it is a known fact that happy hormones /endorphins are released.

Reach out to people who you think may be able to provide you with ideas and brainstorm what your strengths and passions are.

Build your bag of Tricks! Start to collate your bag of strengths and skills and consider new learnings that will contribute to your career success. There are many examples of people looking outside the box and finding commercial joy in new vocations. The hospitality industry is looking at ex-servicemen with their skills in discipline in operations, great sales negotiators could consider commercial mediator roles.

Also think about a “portfolio career” – do a few contracts at once and vary the roles. Many organisations now prefer to hire contractors for a few different functions.

So think about what makes you happy and go for it! We spend so much time now in our lives working so make sure you enjoy what you’re doing!!

 

6 Rules of Writing a Resume

 

Simone Allan has been recruiting executives across a range of industries for over 24 years, below are her 6 top tips for writing your resume.

1.Your front page should include as much detail as possible – career history summary with dates, personal details and education. Today AI often only scans the front page of a resume – so include as much information as you can.

2. Interests and personal details are optional but can be a good talking point

3. Ensure accuracy of dates, no gaps, correct titles and correct grammar. This applies to the covering email/letter as well as the resume! Highlight achievements.

4. Avoid assuming interviewers know your industry jargon, abbreviations or what your company does. Give brief explanations of company & dimensions of the company. The interviewer may not know all the companies listed.

5. Make sure your contact details are up-to-date and on the footer of each page and that you have a message bank on your phone whilst on your job search.

6. Provide trusted & respected referees – no need to issue mobile numbers, you can say numbers supplied at request.

We hope this helps you start to create or update your resume, if you’d like further advice contact Simone Allan on simone@mondosearch.com.au

 

New Year New You!

The Beautiful thing about the start of the New Year is that it is a clean page and an opportunity to shake things up and do things differently. As we spend so much time working it’s important that we do work that we enjoy and we work with people that inspire and support us.

This month we are offering free career coaching appointments if you feel like a think tank call and attached is a small career guideline tool. Feel free to share it with anyone looking to make a career change.

We are grateful for the people we work with, making work rewarding. Carmela, our Head of Talent Research has supported Mondo Search for 20 years and Steve has been placing leaders at Mondo Search for over 11 years. Both of them are extremely passionate and dedicated to what they do every day. We get so rewarded from supporting senior executives and enjoy finding organisations great talent, with speed and ease.

– Simone Allan
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