Steven Briggs has now been accredited as a certified DiSC trainer. It's been part of our service offering in conjunction with NZIM since 2006 and now we are linking DiSC profiling into our customised courses due to customer requests.
See the Light is now a registered provider under NZTE’s Capability Development Voucher Scheme. This means that if your company is GST registered and has less than 50 employees you may be eligible to get our help at half the price! The scheme can pay up to 50% of any fees, limited to $5,000 in any one year.
A two year programme which delivered $15 million in savings over a two year period, using a team of only 5 people, has just ended at Fonterra. The legacy is a workforce thinking about cross functional problem solving everyday, and delivering real value to their customers.
Brent Taylor, Sponsor and Operations Director for Fonterra Trade and Operations, said that the programme had..
“..achieved a significant milestone in the OE journey of Fonterra – cross functional problem solving”
The New Zealand Herald reported that 70 per cent of companies experienced at least one major project failure in the past year. This is based on a survey by tax and business advisory firm KPMG.
That figure was up on the previous New Zealand Project Management Survey, conducted in 2005, when 49 per cent of organisations reported a failed venture.
70% of projects fail, but there is something we can do about it, or so said Steven Briggs, presenting to the Project Management Institute on behalf of the New Zealand Institute of Management last night.
The situation has not improved since the late 90's, despite lots of research and an increase in the technology available. Steven asserts that a people centric approach is needed to make our projects more successful, and gave an outline of what needs to be done.