You Are What You Think
Working in telecommunications, you engage with people on a very personal level. Your business is connecting people around the world, whether it’s for their business or for their relationships.
In this day and age we place a great deal of importance on split second connectivity, we want to send an email and we want to send it NOW. We want to call our partners & we want to do it NOW. So there is no angry customer quite like an angry telco customer.
3 Steps To Better Focus
What makes a high performer? Why do some people achieve greatness and others get left floundering behind?
The Death Of Credit Card Points
The core problem with credit cards today for consumers is that they are fundamentally designed to encourage spending, in order to generate revenue for card companies and issuing banks. While debit cards are marginally better for consumers on an interest rate perspective, the lack of visibility on spend and overdraft fees means that in the US the average consumer pays $225.00 in fees per year[4] on a debit card/checking account – that includes all those “free” checking accounts, which are anything but!
It's Now Easy Being Green
Nature is valuable. But figuring out how valuable has been challenging. By some measures, the services that nature provides business and society — clean water, food and metals, natural defense from storms and floods, and much more — are worth many trillions of dollars. But that number is not helpful to companies trying to assess how dependent they are on natural resources, or how to value them as business inputs.
Your 5 Step Business Reset
Ok, we’re one month into the new year, how are you going? Not quite where you were hoping to be? More often than not, one month into the new year our resolutions are long forgotten. So here’s a short business reset to get you back on the straight and narrow and hurtling toward a brighter business future.
Find Your Purpose
I genuinely believe my accident was a blessing for me.
I know that sounds crazy, how could an event that nearly killed me and left me down some limbs be a blessing?
What Makes Us Happy At Work?
Do you know why the vast majority of people leave their jobs? Many of you will be thinking money or perhaps long hours, or perhaps boredom. But none of these valid reasons play as big a part in driving someone from their job as a sense of not being valued.
Kenya Will Surpass The US In Financial Inclusion
I was in India a few weeks ago speaking to the Reserve Bank and most of the primary Retail Banks about the impact of mobile and social media on the industry there. .
Enshrined in the banking culture and in bank regulations is the perceived 1:1 relationship between branches and Financial Inclusion. This is not unheard of in developed economies either, but in India it is so much a part of the culture that no one has rethought this paradigm in a very long time. The assumption simply is that if India wants inclusion, it needs more branches.
India has just 110 branches per million persons, compared with the USA which has more than 300 branches per million persons, and Spain which has an incredible 900 branches per million persons, with the next nearest in the EU being Italy with 650/mm.
In most developed economies the CAGR of aggregate number of bank branches is -2% to -4% annually these days, and is trending towards a steeper decline. Some economies like Australia have been slow to start this decline, but a normalized range of branch density for most developed economies probably is around 100-150 branches per million.
I know this in itself will generate much debate, but bear with me here.
The Largest Risk Investors Are Ignoring
The world over we hear experts talking about the need for green, but none quite like Andrew Winston, who looks at the financial gains to be made by turning ‘green’ to gold! In this article Andrew outlines the biggest dangers threatening to rattle the financial industry for good.
The Big Pivot
Doing Business in a Hotter, Scarcer, More Open World.
In a unique and entertaining way, Winston describes how companies can go beyond merely coping with mega challenges like climate change and resource constraints and actually contribute to the redesign of our economic system.
The BIG Priority In Investment Banking
Neural Latency Intellisense
Investment banking as a sector looks to have a much more positive outlook this year than in previous years. The year will see the implementation of a lot of the regulatory changes formulated since the crisis hit, and a marketplace that is starting to settle into the new normal, whatever that is.
Driving Human Innovation In Banking
Drive Innovation In Banking
How increasing humanity in the financial sector is key
I was recently fortunate enough to be speaking at the Business Banking Innovation awards hosted by Australian Financial Publications and what struck me was how innovative the big four banks, traditionally portrayed as slow moving, actually are.
Agility - The New Competitive Advantage
Agility - the new competitive advantage in peak performance.
As we kick off the new year the pace and ferocity of the finance industry really picks up.
Clients become more stressed and demanding and their exhaustion and frustration is pointed directly at you.
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Five Ways To Perform Better This Year
Siimon Reynold’s is one of Australia’s biggest business success stories. The last business Siimon co-founded, Photon Group, grew from two people to 6000 in just eight years becoming the 15th largest marketing services group in the world. He has also won over 50 business awards.
Author of best-selling book ’Why People Fail’, Siimon shares his five tips to making 2014 your mist successful yet!
Business Resilience Comes from Working with Nature
Andrew Winston is dedicated to helping companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value, and build stronger relationships with employees, customers, and other stakeholders.
He has advised some of the world’s leading companies, including Bank of America, Bayer, Boeing, Bridgestone, HP, Johnson & Johnson, and Pepsi.
In this insightful piece Andrew reflects on how all companies can take advantage of the earth’s natural resources, but in a very positive way.
Could you be CHIEF OF OPERATIONS for the World's Best Thought Leaders?
ODE Management is a Professional Speakers Management Agency with offices in Australia and the USA. We are seeking an experienced 'Chief of Operations' to oversee our travel and logistics department.
Managing the Change Game
"We are going through a lot of change right now"
"The restructure is being announced" "We are going to roll out the new strategy and there are a lot of changes"… you have heard these sort of words a thousand times. Change for many invokes fear, anxiety and the like. Why? How can we make change an easier and less complicated palaver? A session by Colin James in high demand is Managing the Change Game Brilliantly.
You would think that with ALL the change everyone has been experiencing in their lives of late we would simply get better at managing change better. So why aren’t we? Structural and organisational change often fails to understand and appreciate the psychology of change. Most adults hate change. Period.
In this session Colin James unpacks the psychological change cycle and, once understood, lets people and teams manage the whole process far more effectively.
This session can be a keynote, a workshop or a combination and has helped 1000’s understand the secret to making change easier.
What you will learn;
- How to manage change with style and grace
- How to support and manage a team through a change process superbly
- What has stopped you achieving your goals in the past and how to ensure this does not happen again.
Followership
Good leaders create good followers and good followers create good leaders. Sounds kind of obvious right? Leadership is theoretically easy. That's why there are tens of thousands of books on the subject. Of course it's more complex than reading a book or article.
What constitutes excellent leadership?
Does the answer lie in focusing on "Followership"? Followership challenges both Leaders in organizations (how to be a better leader) and employees (how to be a better 'follower').
Colin James has been studying, exploring and researching the nature of Leadership and Followership for 3 decades. He draws upon a host of stories, references, humour and his unique graphic presentation ability to hold audiences fully engaged and enthralled. Above all it’s practical.
This session can be a keynote, a workshop or a combination. This is what you will learn:
What makes an excellent follower?
- The 3 key reasons Followers follow and the 3 reasons they will stop
- How to build authentic leaders that compel followership
- How this knowledge can transform people and cultures
Lizard Management Strategies
The number one cause of workplace disruption, conflict, disengagement and low productivity is stress and anxiety. The ability to manage stress and handle anxiety is a skill. Now here is the fact that confronts many: the workplace does not cause stress and anxiety. How can we say this? Because, in any workplace, not everyone is stressed or anxious. Different people in the same context respond differently and, to keep it simple, respond either productively or negatively. What’s the difference?
Productive people who manage challenging environments well, who have what looks like natural confidence, who flourish in perceived adversity have well developed Lizard Management Strategies.
This is a deeply powerful idea that Colin James has been developing for 20 years. It leaves everyone who hears this keynote or completes this workshop able to handle stress and anxiety immediately in their lives – professionally and personally. This can be a catalyst for both a cultural shift and for personal effectiveness to skyrocket. LMS is a game changer.
Knowing what the Lizard is, and how it can managed, lives long in the minds of everyone hearing this powerful and life changing method. This session can be a keynote, a workshop or a combination. What you will learn;
- How to eliminate individual and group anxiety
- How to gain natural, effortless confidence in all contexts
- How to never sabotage yourself again
Ode to Ode...
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Head of Senior School, Toowoomba Grammar School
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CEO and co-founder | Climate Salad
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Executive Director | Diversity Alliance for Science
In ODE I've found a team that are naturals at choosing the attitude, being present, making the client's day and above all, that love to play. Most importantly, for a person that travels consistently, I am always made to feel a valued part of the family.
Stephen Lundin - FISH! Philosophy
Working with ODE to build my US business was an awesome experience. In less than two years, we generated over one million US dollars of booking inquiries, accelerated my market penetration by at least 5 years and established relationships that many speakers spend their whole career trying to get.
