In a few month’s time, the NDIS will roll out across most of NSW and people and organisations are clamouring to be ready. One of the...

Each year at about this time, organisations are planning, drafting and finalizing budgets. They do this as in the world of business, we...

The ongoing issue of whether small organisations can survive can been lost in the frenzy about size. The simple fact is that big or...

Social care practitioners have to let go of their obsession with assessment. There are more assessment tools out there than I care to...

I tell you no lie. I was leading a strategic planning session and one hour later they were still going on about the label they would use...

Every now and again I am reminded that the business of “social care” really is women’s work. It shouldn’t be, as women do not have a...

For many years, our funders required us to have strategic plans; not so we could follow them not measure the effectiveness of what we...

After a week away, sleeping on an air mattress and moving around new and unfamiliar places my thirteen year old said, “Mum, I am so happy...

I am glad I chose Social Work and am privileged to have worked with so many people and their communities. I’ve worked in nursing homes,...

We must admit, that despite the best intentions, social care engineers don’t always get it right. Some of our most “seemingly logical”...

This time thirty two years ago, I just finished my HSC and was set to start my new job at Grosvenor Hospital in Summer Hill, Sydney. As a...

Learning Number One – A new Brand and Marketing Plan isn’t the answer When the going gets tough, it seems social care organisations get...

Just when you thought you had it all under control, something changes. Most organisations are aware of the ‘’hyper-connected consumer’’ …...

With so much talk about change, NDIS, person-centred planning, strategy, planning and the like, one of the core concepts that has been...

One of the biggest factors in any change process is time….we spend a lot of time planning, discussing and then executing change but often...

Councils across NSW are considering their options after a government-commissioned report found nearly two thirds were “unfit”, marking...

The principle that financial markets accurately reflect the underlying value of traded stocks has been widely accepted in the investment...

I was reminded the other day that the work social, and health care practitioners do is not for the faint hearted. After 30 years of...

The McKinsey Global Institute released an excellent report in 2012 entitled, The Social Economy. Unlocking Value and Productivity through...

We hear a lot about how managers and leaders in the sector need to be innovative, yet many have done this all their lives. So, why is it...