Supporting the Royal Children’s Hospital through the Kyle Sheldon Memorial Golf Day
In a typical year, Resilient Services would send our clients and friends Christmas cards to thank them for a fantastic year. As many of our clients worked from home in 2020, sending Christmas cards wasn’t feasible, we needed to innovate and do something different. Instead of spending on physical cards this year, Resilient Services sent […]
Resilient Services’ Year in Review
What a year! I couldn’t think of another way to kick-off our final newsletter for 2020. This year, despite all its challenges (and we will get to those), has been a success for Resilient Services. About the challenges, like every business, our greatest challenge this year was managing the dramatic changes and fallout from the […]
Movember – a reminder not a gimmick
Sadly, I lost my cousin Bryan to heart disease four years ago, aged just 55. In fact, the 3rd of November marked the anniversary of his funeral. Then 2 years ago I lost my brother Peter who died of a heart attack on Halloween, 31 October 2018. As we move into Movember, it is the greatest […]
Resilient Services webinar: Disaster Recovery and First-Mover Advantage
Is your business locked down or severely restricted? Are cashflows down and futures uncertain? Does this sound like your situation? Strangely enough, now is the best time to get moving on restarting your business. From a disaster management perspective, planning recovery, and returning to business as usual, is the first thing to do after an […]
Community lead recovery and grassroots sporting clubs
According to an Australian Sports Foundation survey, about a quarter of the nation’s 70,000 grassroots clubs may not survive beyond 2020. The foundation estimates that local clubs have lost around $1.6 billion to the pandemic to June, and these losses will continue to escalate. Should these sporting groups fail to survive, the implications will reach […]
The shortcomings of ‘command and control’ in the corporate world
Long established, emergency services or military management models have great difficulty working in corporate environments. Known as command and control (C2), this management model is defined as an approach which enables assigned individuals legal authority and direction over others to accomplish missions or tasks. The reason C2 is inappropriate in a corporate environment is simple. The primary purpose of […]
Resilient Services launches Women in Resilience Leadership Webinar Series
Women face many unique challenges in their careers, from gender pay gaps to breeder bias. In today’s society, women are still finding it hard to progress through their careers into leadership roles at equal rates to their male counterparts. The Women in Resilience Leadership webinar series has been developed to connect with women who are […]