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Why AI Resistance Is Personal
What the Big Five Can Teach Leaders About Adoption
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Dismantling the Workplace Productivity Paradox
How to Upskill a Cognitively Exhausted Workforce
In a time where unpredictability and chaos seem to prevail in the economic and geopolitical...
4 min read.
From Functional Excellence to Enterprise Impact
Why the step into enterprise leadership is more than a promotion
Author: Nicola Richmond
Author: Rachael Stott
At the enterprise level, organisations need leaders who can hold the long view, think systemically,...
2 min read.
When ‘Leading Others’ Isn’t Enough
Author: Rachael Stott
Author: Rachael Stott
Author: Rachael Stott
Author: Sonya Cowen
Author: Henrik Klausen
Author: Rachael Stott
Author: Rachael Stott
Author: Sonya Cowen
How Personality Traits Predict Job Performance Author: Verity Ratcliffe In Aotearoa New Zealand, as...
Author: Gus McIntosh
Author: Verity Ratcliffe More and more we are seeing artificial intelligence (AI) used for...
Teamwork,
leadership,
highperformance,
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team development,
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General
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Go for Gold: How to win the Communication Olympics
Author: Brendan Lynch Watching the Olympics started me thinking about how athletes prepare for peak...
2 min read.
Are You Unlocking Your Team’s Full Potential?
Author: Sonya Cowen
Author: Brendan Lynch Hello leaders,
Author: Nicola Richmond Ever wondered how well those seemingly quirky personality assessments can...
Author: Brendan Lynch It’s foggy in Wellington, New Zealand as I write this morning. At times, some...
Author: Nicola Richmond Recently, my sister-in-law shared with me her experience of completing a...
Author: Henrik Klausen In the fast-paced environment of modern workplaces, coaching your staff...
Author: Helen Horn Aotearoa has had more than its fair share of large scale emergencies to contend...
Author: Rachael Stott Periods of complex change bring into sharp relief the potential negative...
Five easy tips to help manage performance at work. Although leaders are often faced with...
Author: Brendan Lynch Change and uncertainty are two key themes that are top of mind for many...
Author: Gus McIntosh If leadership were a professional sport it would be laughable how much...
Personality Testing: The power of a local perspective Author: Henrik Klausen
Unlocking potential: Navigating psychometric tools for an informed and fairer hiring process Author:
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Technical Summary of NZ Norm
Technical Summary of NZ Norm Author: Natasha Zimmerman
Author: Ruth Cornelius – Leadership Development Principal
Executive selection; how to make better decisions and inform development. Author: Helen Horn
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Unlocking the Potential of Internal Candidates
Unlocking the Potential of Internal Candidates Author: Ruth Cornelius
Why do assessments matter when making selection decisions? Author: Natasha Zimmerman
Why the use of assessments for selection services continues to grow. Author: Natasha Zimmerman
Hear from Michelle Coyne – What I am reading and watching Author: Michelle Coyne – Business...
Hear from Jessica Matthews – What I am reading Author: Jessica Matthews – Business Coordinator
Should we still use cognitive tools in selection? The core of selection is the desire to predict...
Hear from Rachael – What I am reading and watching Author: Rachael Stott – Director
Finding the sweet spot: Essential tips to land your 360 feedback process
Investing in 360º feedback for your staff is a smart and strategic way to drive performance,...
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Client Case Study: Pandemic Ready
How do you get the staff of a clean-energy supplier pandemic ready when they operate 24 hours a day...
Hogan,
talent assessment,
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Personality Matters – General Employability
Dr. Robert Hogan spent his career working to prove that personality predicts workplace performance...
2 min read.
What are ‘norms’ and why are they relevant?
Psychometric assessment tools offer insights about how people will perform at work, behave in...
3 min read.
Why we have so few women leaders
Personality expert Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic took aim at the pervasive bias towards choosing men over...
Central and local government and businesses are turning their attention to how we recover from...
Assessment tools can assist the hiring process, but if poorly used they can further complicate what...
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How to Grow a CEO
Growing a CEO is all about nurturing the development of your employees to get the best out of them....
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Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Selecting the right talent
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Winning with talent: The CEO’s playbook for value creation
Dominic Barton, global managing partner of McKinsey, recently sat down with the McKinsey Podcast to...
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The Future of Teaming, Dave Winsborough
Dave Winsborough, Founder and Innovation Director of Winsborough, talks about the future of teaming...
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Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice,
Blog - Succession Planning,
Video
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Charisma and Humility in leadership
Gus McIntosh, Winsborough’s CEO, was recently invited to speak at the inaugural Hogan User’s...
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Dr. Gordy Curphy explains The Rocket Model
What makes high performing teams tick? Watch Gordy Curphy talk through The Rocket Model and how it...
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Leadership is Consequential - Brendan Lynch
Leadership matters. Leadership is consequential. How do high performing organisations develop great...
When temperatures drop to -50c, there are windspeeds of 90km and there is dangerous terrain to...
CEOs,
leadership,
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Leadership insights from an international CEO
Jim Bentley shares his insights on leadership from his time as a CEO/MD around the world. Jim's...
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice,
Blog - Succession Planning,
Video
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Setting up your chief executive for success
Everyone in an organisation, from the chairperson of the board through to the cleaner, has a vested...
Succession and development matters – CEOS that are appointed from within an organisation outperform...
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Developing better outcomes through leadership
Helen shares three key approaches leaders should consider to develop better outcomes through their...
Winsborough’s Future Trends 2018 Conferences have been a valuable opportunity to bring together...
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Tap into your hidden talents
The way companies operate is vastly different now to what it was only a few years ago, and...
Our recent Future Trends conferences in both Auckland and Wellington saw a raft of great ideas...
leadership,
talent assessment,
talent development,
leadership development,
Future Trends Conference,
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Blog - Selecting the right talent
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Talent: the driving force behind your business
Nothing your business does is more important than identifying and developing talented people....
NZ leadership,
Blog - Teams,
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice,
Blog - Selecting the right talent
1 min read.
To New Zealand leaders, personality fit is key
PwC's NZ CEO Survey 2017 recently revealed that 53% of CEOs will be increasing the headcount of...
Recruiters and HR managers have a lot at stake when assessing and selecting new talent. There’s the...
< 1min read.
Introducing the Team Workshop
Leaders, in a sense, exist for the very purpose of leading their people towards shared goals. The...
Corporations know that teams exist to serve some useful purpose. But the value of teams and best...
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Is your top talent making or breaking your team?
When you create a team from your pool of leading talent, you expect it to work. You have good...
What qualities make for an ideal employee? This is the question often faced in a workplace where...
Successful leadership strategies in the age of disruption In an era that can only be described as...
An important position at your organisation becomes vacant and it’s your task to find the...
Most companies have leaders who, for one reason or another, are not ready to consider what will...
At Winsborough we're proud that our founder, Dave Winsborough, was a recent guest editor of the ...
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The dark side in leaders and what organisations can do about it
It takes just one captain to direct a ship towards troubled waters, and away from safe harbour....
To manage an organisation is to manage a living thing, made up of many hard-to-predict, dynamic...
leadership development,
Blog - Teams,
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice
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How self-aware are your business’s senior leaders and why is it important for the team?
When we consider qualities of great leaders, we might think of the most engaging personality, a...
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Product
1 min read.
More highlights from Future Trends 2017: Wendy and David from Foodstuffs share their thoughts on talent
Last month the Future Trends conference saw successful events held in both Auckland and Wellington.
NZ leadership,
CEOs,
time management,
Blog - Teams,
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Time matters too: more strategy, less transaction
The Winsborough Senior Team Survey 2017 Report found that clarity, in regards to where and how...
NZ leadership,
leadership research,
CEOs,
leadership,
Blog - Organisational Performance,
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice
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The Winsborough Senior Team Survey - Infographic Summary
The Winsborough 2017 Senior Team Survey Report presents key insights into what underpins senior...
Teamwork comes from the top, so it follows that a high-performing senior team will result in a...
NZ leadership,
leadership research,
CEOs,
Blog - Teams,
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice
2 min read.
Teamwork at the top
The Winsborough Senior Team Survey 2017 Report has shed light on the key challenges facing...
Winsborough CEO, Gus McIntosh shared insights from the recent Winsborough New Zealand CEO Survey at...
NZ leadership,
leadership research,
Blog - Teams,
Blog - Developing high performance leaders,
Blog - Independent Executive and Board advice
2 min read.
What New Zealand CEOs should really be focusing on
Hot off the press, PwC has just released its 2017 20th annual NZ CEO survey, revealing that the...
The industrial revolution introduced piecework, in which payment is linked to individual...