Back in the late 1990s people didn’t really understand business improvement to the level they do today.

The main focus went to the training and development of the project leaders, but the role of project sponsor was not given the attention it should have been.

In this podcast George discusses 5 key things good line managers who sponsor business improvement projects must know about the role.

Whether you use lean or six sigma or agile or some sort of RCA methodology is irrelevant, this applies to all.

This podcast is sponsored by:

Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.

How well do you really plan? Is your problem solving and planning process robust enough that you could guarantee you’ve come up with the best plan available to you?

In scenarios other than construction, traditional project management as a planning approach leaves most planners with some gaps in their plans. They make one fundamental mistake (or omission we should say) that is not made by the military.

In this podcast George looks at that one thing and explains how you can use it to solve problems more effectively and develop better plans.

This podcast is sponsored by:

Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.

Maximum productivity without the stress is what we are all trying to achieve.

Unfortunately much of what happens in our environment, and many of the approaches we use to manage our time and activities might actually be obstacles to us being as productive as we potentially can be. They also contribute to the unnecessary levels of stress we are exposed to.

In this podcast George gives you 5 simple yet effective strategies for changing that and actually addressing the obstacles that prevent us achieving our productivity potential.

This podcast is sponsored by:

Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.

Rather than you [as the leader] always trying to solve employee behavioural problems, why not shift ownership of the problem from you to them.

You can do this with George’s 3W approach which turns the employee into someone who has some skin in the game and vested interest in coming up with solutions.

The cool thing is this also can be used successfully at home.

This podcast is sponsored by:

Soarent Vision Pty Ltd and the 9 Skills Factory professionals education platform.

It’s been a long journey, more than 20 years in fact, to work out the most effective way to lead business improvement work in a minimum of time.

Now George is sharing his 3-phase approach which can have a hugely positive impact on how you do your project work, especially in the set up / pre work phase.

This podcast is sponsored by Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George Lee Sye’s 9 Skills Factory education platform.

So many highly capable leaders end up being overwhelmed with work. And one issue is the constant asking by others for them to do things to help solve problems.

Here’s a way for you to get the monkey off your back when your people come to you with another task. Asking these questions doesn’t mean you don’t help out, it just means if you do then you know it’s actually the best way to achieve an outcome that is important for you or your team.

This podcast is sponsored by Soarent Vision Pty Ltd, and George Lee Sye’s 9 Skills Factory education platform and Soarent Vision.

Team building is a challenge all leaders are confronted with at times. While challenging, it’s vitally important that you can build these teams if you are to get the best performance possible out of your organisation.

Here George discusses three strategies that you might consider that will certainly help you build your teams.

This podcast is sponsored by George Lee Sye’s 9 Skills Factory education platform and Soarent Vision.

Sometime in the 1970s before he died in 1982, my father (George Lee Sye Snr.) wrote a poem about the last Anzac. As it turned out Alexander William (Alec) Campbell was that final surviving Australian participant of the First World War’s Gallipoli campaign. With his passing in 2002, that last living link between Australia and the Gallipoli story was broken.
Here is a fitting and poetic tribute to this man, and to all ANZACS and service men and women of Australia and New Zealand.