A person’s career can be negatively impacted if either their own name or their employer’s name is unfavourably mentioned in cyberspace. Most experts suggest the first step in ‘reputation management’ comes with monitoring your name online and there are now a host of tools to make this task easy. To keep tabs on what might […]
A ‘thank you’ to teachers and parents
Today has been very emotional for me and I want to say ‘thank you’ to express the pleasure, pride and pain that I feel by writing this open letter to….well, I don’t know who? For 22 years as a parent with children in Catholic schools, I’ve been involved in countless meetings, school visits, teacher interviews, […]
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Dr Leoni Degenhardt
The following captures the thoughts of Dr Leoni Degenhardt on a range of career progression and development matters, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with discussions with a person’s manager/supervisor. Leoni’s biography is shown at […]
Actively helping your top performers to leave to build your own team!!??
During a period when leaders & managers are scrambling for good people to join their team, it can seem counter-intuitive to actively assist your top performers to find opportunities elsewhere. We all might have a sense that this is the ‘right thing to do’ but many are seduced by the concept of making their own […]
How women unintentionally stunt their careers
This is obviously a generalisation, however in my 18 years of recruiting for senior roles, a recurring pattern is as follows: a male will apply for a role if they meet, say, 4 of the 6 selection criteria and do so with the confidence they can perform in the position; a female, by comparison, won’t […]
How to care for and feed a Board of Directors
People reaching senior positions inevitably need to report to a Board or executive committee. Limited prior exposure does little to prepare a person, when appointed to a CEO role, for the sharp reality of the way to care for and feed board members. Stories abound of strained relationships, often due to mismatched expectations. Whether you […]
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Br Tony Whelan
The following captures the thoughts of Br Tony Whelan, Director of Schools for the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay, on a range of career progression and development matters, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with […]
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Mr Frank Pitt
The following captures the thoughts of Frank Pitt on a range of career progression and development matters, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with discussions with a person’s manager/supervisor. Frank’s biographical overview is shown at […]
Leadership Insights: A conversation with Mr Greg Whitby
The following captures the thoughts of Greg Whitby on a range of career progression and development matters, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with discussions with a person’s manager/supervisor. Greg’s biographical overview is shown at […]
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Natalie McNamara
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Natalie McNamara, a leader in Catholic Education The following is an attempt to capture the thoughts and wisdom of Natalie McNamara, with the responses recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. Given some repetition in the questions, there are some recurring themes in Natalie’s responses. Natalie’s biographical […]
