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By supporting their growth from the outset, organisations can better prepare them to take on greater responsibilities and build continuity in leadership.
We design development programs that are relevant and have the intended impact, both for individuals and their organisations.
Thank you to our clients in 2024!
At LKS Quaero, we believe that a well-structured approach to leadership transitions is essential to enable continuity and maintain momentum.
LKS Quaero's coaches support individual leaders to achieve better results through tailored coaching services.
Investing in people leads to their own investment.
Financial sustainability is not just a leader’s responsibility.
At LKS Quaero, we are committed to helping leaders to develop their emotional intelligence through comprehensive assessments and targeted coaching. This empowers them to lead with empathy, resilience, and authenticity, driving organisational success.
That's why it's so important socially for us to value persistence; it builds more satisfied human beings who are better at doing what they need to do, and who value the journey.
As a society, we don't learn the lessons of the past - we just treat everything as isolated incidents and someone else's problem.
By organising authorities to ensure decisions are made efficiently at the lowest viable level, organisations can unlock their full potential and achieve sustained success.
Alex sat down to tell us a little about herself.
What's really heartening for me are the often transformative experiences people describe in terms of how they see themselves.
From 30 July to 1 August 2024, in Singleton NSW, we're running a Site Safety Supervisor program open to anyone who'd like to sign up. Successful completion of the course results in a statement of attainment for four units of competency from the RII30120 Cert III in Surface Extraction Operations.
Fostering trust between managers and workers is paramount for achieving organisational goals and maintaining employee wellbeing.
Different approaches to private versus public hold significant sway in shaping worker experiences and organisational dynamics.
This phenomenon occurs when individuals intentionally underperform or manipulate situations to their advantage, ultimately impeding the progress of the team or organisation as a whole.
Having shepherded hundreds of students through our programming, here’s our advice on how you can get the most out of your leadership development journey.
Chally, Nathan, and Sam talk artificial intelligence for organisations.
By leveraging the strengths of both AI and human beings in a thoughtful manner, businesses can foster stronger connections and deliver exceptional service tailored to individual needs.
Chally, Nathan, and Sam talk resilience for organisations.
Here's an interview with our new Associate, Maddy!
Sam, Chally, and Nathan discuss back to the office vs work from home organisational messaging.
Thank you to our clients in 2023! Here's some of what we have planned for 2024.
It’s often seen as low skilled or inconsequential work, when really it’s finely detailed work that keeps everything moving.
Here's Chally's best advice on taking our program quizzes.
As a leader, receiving honest feedback is crucial for personal and professional growth.
Sam Robinson, Nathan Farr, and Chally Kacelnik got together to talk about Adidas' strategy.
These studies bear out that undercommunication, particularly about tasks, is detrimental for leaders' relationships with their teams.
The bright shiny change will fall apart if you don't get implementation right. Think it through, set the stage, and follow it up.
Professor Huang has distilled a few critical points for effective communication and decision-making that are all too easy for leaders to forget.
Sam Robinson, Nathan Farr, and Chally Kacelnik got together to talk about Nokia's strategy, and how they went from top to bottom and on the rise again.
Empathy's critical, not fluffy - people can tell when it's applied and consistent, and are hugely put off when it rings false.
I’m always pretty bothered by conversations about work that assume relationships are the foundation of getting stuff done.
Why do a leadership capability assessment? What's involved? And how's it different from other kinds of testing?
Some great practical tips for executive leaders on creating psychological safety.
Our Managing Director, Sam Robinson, is in the March issue of the Hunter Business Review.
This 2006 study by Porter and Nohria outlines some surprising finds for how CEOs spend their time. 
Strong relationships are the foundation of a successful organisation, and a leader who can build and maintain genuine relationships with their team, stakeholders, and clients is more likely to achieve their goals.
If you're not finding the right answers, brainstorming for questions instead can help transform your approach.
We got together to talk about Netflix's strategy and we had quite a lot to say.
Let's take a look back on previous posts on strategy.
We keep coming back to purpose, because it's critical.
Sam Robinson, Nathan Farr, and Chally Kacelnik got together to talk about how leaders can link the everyday to strategy for their teams.
There is no single best approach for strategy: your environment is the critical factor.
It’s been another big year for us at LKS Quaero.
Sam Robinson, Nathan Farr, and Chally Kacelnik got together to talk about how to focus on the big picture amongst the daily grind.
Sam Robinson, Nathan Farr, and Chally Kacelnik got together to talk about one of the most persistent issues we see: gaps between individual roles and their links to organisational strategy.
'The latent and often unarticulated fear of loss is usually behind organizational inertia and resistance.'
A great practical demonstration of creating a new business strategy.
Spillover bias can cause you to perceive more diversity than is actually there: "people who observe one kind of diversity are likely to think a different kind of diversity is present".
If you're worried about being seen as weak, displays of dominance are a sure fire way to embed an impression of weakness.
You need to get that corporate knowledge documented and readily understood by everyone who needs it, and you need to conform with legal requirements.
Most time management advice - to me at least - sounds too obvious and too easy.
Practical advice on how to take the plunge if you're feeling avoidant or frightened.
If you're hearing "that's not my job," it's a good time to think about role clarity and accountability.
This is a great conversation, applying lessons from the medical field to leadership in any field.
'Confident vulnerability means that leaders can own their imposter syndrome by putting their self-doubts to work for them'.
Here's Senior Consultant Chally Kacelnik’s advice on attributing mental states to others in order to get the right outcomes and smooth the path of human interactions - it's about applying what's known as theory of mind.
We're running a mix of in person, virtual, and hybrid leadership development programs right now, and we're tracking lessons from each format to the benefit of our programming over all.
Our Managing Director, Sam Robinson, is in the June issue of the Hunter Business Review. Read Sam's article about how to get the right training for your team.
Here's our Managing Director, Sam Robinson, on creating clarity for your team by setting fair and consistent social, technical, and commercial expectations.
If you get angry at work, it's not a good idea to bottle it up or vent excessively.
If you’d like to be part of making organisations better for everyone, work toward clarity.
Presentation is all about storytelling, over and above the medium.
Document and credit ideas, and have sensible gateway criteria for ideas implementation.
Advice on public speaking from someone who dislikes it.
Here's some advice for resetting your thinking on strategy.
Good team dynamics start with organisations supporting leaders with the time and skills to lead their teams.
The key is to check in with your audience for understanding and be receptive to cues.
Here's our Senior Consultant, Chally Kacelnik, on getting to grips with the current state for yourself, team, or organisation.
There are some surprises here unless you’ve been following these stats for a while.
Sometimes you don’t know what you think you know. With a little humility and curiosity, a good organisation will build learning and interdependency into how work gets done.
An inspiring, purposeful strategy will make all the difference for your organisation.
If you ever get the chance to go somewhere exciting, I say go for it! Apart from the great memories, you’ll be able to learn from that experience for many years afterwards.
Covid has given a lot of people space for critical reflection about how they really feel about the standard office.
This makes fascinating reading about the impact of COVID-19 on activity levels.
These are all key pillars in LKS Quaero leadership programs.
It’s all too easy to assume that you and others are on the same page – or that your own understanding of a purpose won’t shift over time if it isn’t documented
Here's a throwback for you - a classic article from 2003 on trust, worker motivation, and ideas management.
If you disagree with a decision, you might just find that getting behind it is for the good.
Another year has come and gone, and we've been glad of the opportunity to spend it with you. Here's some of what we've been up to.
How to maximise focus on high leverage tasks to get better results.
Advice for effectively structuring a challenging conversation for long term impact.
What works is presenting a toolkit where a person gets to choose what to do when, time to reflect and try it out, stories and support, raw honesty, and a lot of courage.
Productive reflection on your own behaviour as a leader is critical.
Genuine and specific positive feedback is better than any pizza day.
It's not experience that you're actually looking for when developing or hiring people.
The common phrase "everyone's replaceable" is such a misnomer. Yes, you might be able to replace a hardworking employee who knows how to do everything right, but at what cost?