Chain of Responsibility: Everything You Need to Know If you work in the civil infrastructure industry, or if you deal with or influence people in the transport supply chain, then you need to know about the Chain of Responsibility (CoR). November 3, 2023By ICI Administrator Aspire, People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »
The impacts of Strong Leadership Your Leadership team sets the stage for a productive work environment, efficient project execution, and overall organisation success. Instilling your management team with the skillsets needed to create a confident, autonomous team is a challenge – but one which can have profound impacts on your organisation. August 2, 2023By ICI Administrator General, People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »
6 steps to building a successful team in the civil industry! In working with Construction Managers in the civil industry, we've found one of the key challenges is the cost of finding and retaining good team Members. February 14, 2023By ICI Administrator General, People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »
New Tax Breaks for Civil Contractors Investing in Skills & Training Federal Government announces tax incentives to businesses who invest in training and skills March 30, 2022By ICI Administrator Business & Operational Skills, General, People Management Civil Contractors, employers, business, online training, small business, tax break, tax deduction, Training and skills 0 0 Comment Read More »
Is your workplace mentally healthy? The construction sector has some of the highest rates of mental ill health when compared to all industries in Australia. In fact, according to Construction Industry Culture Taskforce (CICT), the industry experiences: February 21, 2022By ICI Administrator General, People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »
Confused about COVID-19 requirements in the workplace? Read on as we unpack what the Building Award says Entering into our third year of the COVID-19 pandemic employees continue to ask questions about isolation and leave. How can the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020 help? February 9, 2022By ICI Administrator Aspire, Business & Operational Skills, General, People Management covid19leaverequirements, covidleave, employeepandemicleave, pandemicleave 0 0 Comment Read More »
Solving staff retention rates through diversity We face a rising nationwide skill shortage across the infrastructure sector, with Infrastructure Partnerships Australia recently revealing that the industry will need to grow its total workforce by nearly 43.4 percent to meet the demands of the coming pipeline. February 3, 2022By ICI Administrator Aspire, General, People Management civilconstruction, D&I, diverseworkplaces, diversity, diversityinclusion, ICI, inclusion, skillsgap, skillsshortage, talentpool, WIC50by50, womenincivil 0 0 Comment Read More »
Are you part of the “The Great Resignation” trend? Workplace experts are warning of an incoming avalanche of employee turnover among Aussie businesses in 2022 — known as ‘The Great Resignation’. Investing in staff to ensure they feel valued is vital at this time. Companies that put their people first and can play a key role in their development will find themselves with the most satisfied employees, ultimately leading to greater business outcomes and success. January 25, 2022By ICI Administrator Business & Operational Skills, People Management #employeerelations, #greatresignation , #leadership , #learninganddevelopment , #management , #peopleskills, #skillshortage 0 0 Comment Read More »
If you could do just one thing today, what would it be? In his book ‘Essentialism’ Greg McKeown tells the story of how, just a couple of hundred years ago, the word ‘priority’ meant the single most important thing. Then we messed with it and invented a word called ‘priorities’ which as we now know means lots of most important things. If you could do just one thing today, what would it be? September 12, 2018By Greg Mowbray People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »
10 things to do to be a better leader I’ve been banging on recently about how we should stop trying to be perfect (because it ain’t going to happen!) and just focus on becoming incrementally better. If we tried, each day, to just be a little better than we were the day before, and we did it for long enough, our leadership effectiveness would skyrocket, our people would be more engaged and our businesses would be more effective. September 12, 2018By Greg Mowbray People Management 0 0 Comment Read More »