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Welcome to the Synergy IQ Blog, a space where valuable insights, expert tips, and industry trends come together to empower businesses like yours. Our goal is to provide you with informative articles and thought-provoking content that can elevate your organisation's success. Stay updated with the latest developments, best practices, and innovative strategies that drive growth and efficiency. Join us on this knowledge-sharing journey as we unlock the keys to change.
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People Change When It Makes Sense: The Power of Human-Centered Change
Different parts of our lives are always changing. We manage through the transitions of life with ...
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Sensemaking: Reframing Change Management
Throughout the course of my ten-year career in change management, I've witnessed how companies are ...
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Bridging the Gap in Change Management: Beyond Frameworks to Real Skills
Throughout my extensive experience in managing organisational change, I have witnessed initiatives ...
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Demystifying Systems Thinking: A Practical Guide for Change that Makes Sense
In today's fast-paced business environment, ill-considered and poorly planned change is costly. ...
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Tips for Onboarding and Unleashing Your Team's Change Superpowers
Picture this: a new teammate joins your crew, all excited and ready to roll. But wait, how do you ...
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What improvements would you make with $200 million for Digital Transformation?
The South Australian Government’s digital investment of 200 million in the State Budget 2023-2024 ...
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Bring me Problems, not Solutions
“Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions!” We’ve all heard it, and I even remember getting this ...
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Reflecting on 5 Years of Growth and Teamwork
Five years ago, after five years of solo freelancing, I decided to create a consultancy where I ...
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Is there any value in your company values?
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume everyone reading this has been part of a company that has ...
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Are you stuck in a "Culture Story" that's creating a bad experience at work?
There was once an argument between the wind and the sun about who was stronger... starts the Aesop ...
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Help your new hires to stick
We are currently in the midst of a period many are referring to as ‘the great resignation’, and ...
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Can't find anyone for that role you've advertised? Try this instead
I want to introduce you to a new way of thinking about the workforce. Generally, we think about our ...
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People at the Heart of Transformation
Our goal at SynergyIQ is to create a new way of consulting. Driven by our values - grit, optimism, ...
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How CEOs can build a resilient workforce post COVID19
COVID19 is the word on everyone’s lips. Even when we want to discuss something as mundane as the ...
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COVIDsafe Plans for Returning to Workplaces
“Are you ready for people to come back into the workplace post COVID19 restrictions?”
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Life Is Messy… Enjoy It! Keeping Calm And Balanced Whilst Running A Business
“The middle is messy, but that’s where the magic happens.” Another brilliant quote from my girl ...
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Digital Transformation is about People’s Choice to Change, not Technology
We’ve all been there.
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Grief: We’re in Crisis and it Hurts. Dealing With Business And Personal Uncertainty
I don’t know about you but I’m feeling the pain of COVID-19.
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How To Use Your Mistakes To Improve Leadership And Business Outcomes
I drove my 6yo daughter to the doctors this week, pulling up into diagonal parking on the street ...
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COVID19: Your business and uncertainty – your questions answered
Well, that turned quickly, didn’t it? A few months ago we were like ‘corona-what?’ Now it’s on ...
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Create a High Performing Culture In Your Business
Many business owners I know tell me that they want a performance culture. That is they would like a ...
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What do people really need right now? How to remain calm and focused leading a business in our current world.
Logging in to your social media channel of choice and your certain to access a multitude of people ...
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How many people left during your last change?
Companies worldwide are interested in the Staff Attrition metric. If the attrition metric is high, ...
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Culture Change through the eyes of an exhausted leader
Just imagine for a moment that you are an exhausted leader. For many reading this it won’t be a far ...
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Culture and Human Resources are not interchangeable
Culture is not just a capability, it’s not just about the workforce; it’s not just about the ...
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2020 Was a Year for Learning
When I woke up on 1 January 2020 I thought about the things I wanted to achieve that year. I hadn’t ...
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What does ‘Benefits Realisation’ mean in a change project?
What is benefits realization?
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Innovation Culture
One of the areas that we get the most questions in is how do I change my culture so that people ...
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Dale Carnegie’s 30 Principles To Win Friends & Influence People
In 1936, Dale Carnegie’s very famous self-help book“How to Win Friends and Influence People”hit the ...
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Don’t ask the question, if you don’t want the answer.
Many businesses engage change practitioners (internal and external) to give them advice about ...
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Why do you want to change your culture?
If you’ve ever worked in a corporate environment, the chances are you’ve heard the term culture ...
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Are you an authentic leader? Grab these five books and find out…
Authenticity… it’s a buzz word that we use in organisations. What we’ve found to be true is that ...
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What is all the fuss with Stakeholder Management?
What is stakeholder management, and why do change people bang on about it all the time?
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How to have quick corridor coaching conversations
As a “busy leader”, said in sarcastic quotation marks, because let’s be frank… we’re all busy. Why ...
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How to Have a Real Conversation at Work
Having meaningful and authentic conversations at work is a topic that comes up a lot when talking ...
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There’s no such thing as an Internal Customer
Why are we persisting with the terms ‘external’ and ‘internal’ customers?
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