Communication is the science of self-awareness. We challenge ourselves each day with the question “Who am I?” a lot more than we pay attention to who other people are. White collar professionals don’t get paid for their manual labour, rather they are brought on board to think, articulate and interact with co-workers, managers and stakeholders. … Read more
Did you know every person on the planet falls into one of 16 personality types? I can hear you say ‘But I’m an individual, don’t pigeon hole me like that!’ and that is absolutely true. We are, all of us, unique but we do follow similar patterns of behaviour depending on which personality type we … Read more
Many organisations today are still focused on concepts such as “core hours” and “afterhours”. In a modern age where skype, the internet and cloud based software enables individual consumers to connect with friends, family and business partners anywhere, anytime, why not also co-workers and line managers? In my experience, many companies are philosophical in agreement … Read more
Great recruiters do a good job matching the right candidates with suitable roles but what happens when you want to take good employees and build them into a high performance team? Having worked across a number of these roles at Abacus in the past six months, I’d like to highlight the importance of recognising talent … Read more
Managing your personal brand online is so important these days because whether you’re aware or not, recruiters and potential employers are searching for people like you on social media every day. You might be a great candidate but these people searching online profiles such as Facebook or LinkedIn don’t know you personally so for them … Read more
Much has been said about the western world and our culture in recent decades particularly regarding workplace practices. We are seen as out of date and out of touch in a great many areas one of which is workplace productivity. Australians are overcoming the 1980s Paul Hogan “Put another shrimp on the barbie” stereotype which … Read more
When Malcolm Turnbull ascended to the leadership of Australia not so long ago he almost immediately started spruiking the benefits of being innovative and agile and not to be afraid of change. Disruptive innovation embodies the innovation economy better than anything. Think new services such as Uber and how it is disrupting the established Taxi … Read more
Failure is actually when we push blindly toward unlimited potential but our progress is rudely interrupted by an invisible wall we call the knowledge frontier. Beyond this invisible wall is the unknown, untested and unproven. To push beyond it is easy; all it takes is willpower. Successfully charting a course through the darkness requires more … Read more
The accounting field is quite obviously more left brain analytical than it is right brain creative. Crunching numbers and working across spreadsheets and various systems such as SAP or Great Plains is where Finance & Accounting professionals thrive, however there are times when public speaking might become a requirement of the job. This is particularly … Read more
Choosing the right recruitment specialist to support your business is a critical decision that can have a direct impact on the calibre of your team and ultimately the performance of the overall finance function. Following several requests from key clients over the last couple of months we have decided to provide a blog to respond to … Read more