Wednesday, August 21, 2013

G'day my Kiwi and Southern African Colleagues

I am interested in a possible partner to run a JV workshop on Organisation and Leadership Effectiveness in South Africa and New Zealand. The workshop is based on the models and principles of Elliott Jaques, Gillian Stamp et al.  Australia has had a long exposure to Levels of Work and CPA/IRIS and NZ has had some exposure to them, while my old company – now BIOSS Southern Africa,  continues to do a lot of work with levels of work and capability in Southern Africa.

In the late nineteen nineties I set up a JV with BIOSS in Australia and after we parted company I set up The Working Journey in 2001. We work cooperatively with EDAC *(Cyprus), BIOSS Australasia, The Global Organisation Design Society (Canada and the US), The Australian Institute of Management (AIM) and PeopleFit (USA & Australia). We have offices now in Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart.

Earlier this year I published a new book called "Organisational Design - What Your University Forgot To Teach You" in partnership with AIM and we have had an amazing response. We are actively involved in the restructure of a number of companies in different industries.

Our leadership workshop is used internationally and is aimed at enterprises of all sizes and complexity. It teaches the basic principles of structure and business leadership. CEOs and managerial leaders like these Requisite Principles for effectiveness because  it’s a logical integrative process for  organizing people in effective structures to do work; in order to deliver cost efficient outcomes in a  fair and transparent manner.


Some clients have used Elliott’s Requisite Organisation  for four decades plus and as you may know, it is backed by solid research. The workshop is based on these principles, the work of Gillian Stamp and others and may be used internally with a CEO or Senior Exec to roll out strategy or simply to improve managerial leadership skills with a lingua franca and agreed managerial practices.

Aimed at CEOs, senior managers and entrepreneurs, it offers practical tools and methods to assist people to contribute at the right work level in a way conducive to building Trust and Fairness. CEOs use it as it is practical and well researched, with direct linkages to business performance.

I am interested in connecting with people who are already well established with a good market reach. I will be in New Zealand and available between 19 and 22 August 2013 and in South Africa and available for discussion from 16th January 2014

So, if anyone is interested, please do let me know. Our Winter Newsletter is now out and we have a User Group Meeting in Adelaide in November 2014. Papers will be presented by SA Water, National Pharmacies, Royal Automobile Association of South Australia, Good Return, Volunteers SA and NT to mention a few key players..

In Abundance


Andrew Olivier