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Forum New Zealand is the New Zealand distributor of AchieveForum. Our learning solutions help organisations effectively execute their business strategies.

AchieveForum is a recognised global leader in linking learning to strategic business objectives. Forum New Zealand is the New Zealand distributor of Forum Corporation (www.forum.com) and a subsidiary of Platform Consulting. Forum is a recognised global leader in linking learning to strategic business objectives. Our learning solutions help organisations effectively execute their business strategi

es by focusing on their most important asset: their people. We provide clients with practical and research-based advice and tailored programs that mobilize employees, accelerate business-initiative implementation, and improve agility. Forum’s 40-year legacy as a pioneer and thought leader continues with the release of our latest book, Strategic Speed (Harvard Business Press). We focus on maximizing the impact individual and group behaviour has on effectively achieving time-critical business results. Forum’s extensive global network of talented and expert facilitators and consultants combine years of content facilitation with practical work experience in company roles similar to the participants with whom they work. Forum has offices and training professionals across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Forum New Zealand works closely with Forum's Australian and Asia offices to support regional initiatives as well as having a strong client bas in New Zealand. Specialties
Invigorating your salesforce, Developing leaders at all levels, Delivering on your customer experience, Accelerating strategy execution, Executive / Management Coaching, Strategic Visioning / Strategy Development

09/03/2023

I had an interesting discussion with a new CEO today around an incident in his executive team that pointed to lack of alignment around what high performance leadership is in his organisation. he admitted that this discussion had not been had to his knowledge and was a contributor to the issue he was dealing with.

In this blog the writer, Steve McKee explores the weather its power or influence that's critical. He states

Leaders can choose whether they develop power or influence, but Steve McKee says only one leads to effective leadership.

02/03/2023

Back on the old hobby horse of time & priority Management!

Need fresh ideas on managing your time? Check out my Ultimate Ten Point Guide to Personal Time Management for actionable takeaways.

22/02/2023

I think I could dedicate a regular post just to meetings! Meetings come a close second to email as the Bain of most peoples work-lives. In this post the author questions whether meetings are a reflection of the organisation’s culture. I think it has some validity from my observations over a number of years. The post also has a link to meeting effectiveness checklists for both virtual and face-to-face meetings.

Five decades of research shows the huge impact of organizational culture on outcomes like Return on Investment, stock prices, service/quality levels, productivity, sales, profitability, cost-effectiveness, and similar results. Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagem...

15/02/2023

Alaina Love, the author of this blog asked a client

Make the most of the new year by creating a Leadership Capability Big 5 list outlining how to boost your leadership and personal abilities.

08/02/2023

Most of us have experienced

If your team feels “stuck,” the problem might involve issues that are difficult to discuss — conflict between two team members, for example, or an underperforming employee. To address these issues head-on, leaders must learn the art of framing a conversation so people can organize their though...

25/01/2023

After three years of battling the implications and impacts of covid on management practices there's still no agreement as to how it changes your approach. Hybrid work seems to be a reality in many organisations I deal with. How this is managed is many and varied. The question that doesn't seem to being addressed is the root of the issue....Leadership / management practices. This blog starts to explore this and the need to move from an activity to outcomes focus. It will be difficult for many organisations / managers to understand the "Managing Peoples Work" doesn't give the best outcome!

A few months ago, I saw a piece of research which has stuck with me. Research by Microsoft was looking into how Hybrid Work was working, and found out the following shocking statistic: 87% of employees feel like they are just as productive working remotely as they are in the office But 88% of manage...

14/12/2022

You may be surprised how many people I work with suffer from “Imposter Syndrome”. Sometimes these people come across as very confident, even though in their mind they’re not. RThe question is how do you over come this? In this HBR Blog they focus on the need to build courage as the starting point. If you suffer from self-doubt or lack confidence may be there’s some gems in this for you.

Self-doubt is a pervasive and often paralyzing concern, and research has repeatedly shown that it impacts women more than men. So what makes high-achieving women power through their self-doubt? According to the author’s research, they focus on building up their courage, not their confidence. She o...

07/12/2022

Most leaders wear a lot of hats in their role and seem to continually question which ones they should be wearing and when. In this blog, Wally Block has distilled these hats down to three and then questions how do you balance them. I found it simplifies the areas of focus for a leader and hopefully it will reasonate!

Leadership is a complex, high stakes balancing act. Here’s why.

30/11/2022

I was taught many years ago that when you're having a collaborative conversation you need to explore and understand the other person's perspective while explaining and advocating your own. In doing so, the objective is to use this approach to come up with a way forward that you both agree with. If you can't achieve this then the next step is to agree to a "Third" perspective that is acceptable to both of you..

In this blog Ken Norton uses this technique to underpin have a difficult conversation, especially as he says when there's an elephant in the room. Ken gives you a simple structure for preparing for one of these conversations and if need be how to craft the "Third Story"

What to do when it’s time for some tough talk

23/11/2022

It’s a pity that we need to continue to remind people of the risk of burn-out. In his latest blog, Nick Petrie (based in Nelson) outlines his suggested approach to dealing with this issue. The suggestions are underpinned with his own research and as I’d expect pragmatic. Have a look at

Why do some hard workers burnout and others are fine? Over the past two years I’ve been studying, this question. The simplistic view is that burnout is caused by too much work. While this is a factor – no one is burning out the beach – it is not that simple. In our interviews we saw that it wa...

18/11/2022

How many of you profess to wanting to be more proactive in your role? How many of you would consider yourself very action oriented, results driven and customer focused? Those two approached are often in dynamic tension and normally mean that you spend a lot of time fire fighting and in the weeds.

For those of you that aspire to change your behaviours might be interested in this blog from the Eblin Group. It gives you an approach to start this journey.

Finding yourself bogged down in too many details? Here’s how one simple change can help you stay out of the weeds.

02/11/2022

Meetings, Bloody Meetings!
They are still the bain of peoples life at work. If you're responsible for setting them up here's some ideas as to how to streamline them.

Every CEO, middle manager and first-time manager I have ever worked with has struggled to figure out how to run a productive staff meeting.

26/10/2022

This isn't the first time I've reposted productivity related blogs. This one struck a chord as I've been working with some managers that have taken steps to start to control their emails. These steps have included:

Better management of their notifications on their devices to reduce distractions
Using smart mails boxes to sideline CC emails and newsletters or anything that has "Unsubscribe" in. the footer.
Talking to their teams to help them released the impact of CCing people into what they send out.

Every manager that has tried simple things like this has got better control on their inbox.

This blog starts to look at productivity through an email lens and give some additional ideas for improving workflow.

It's often the simplest behaviors that lead to the greatest transformation. Here is a case in point.

19/10/2022

Every day I seem to be meeting with people who under incredible pressure with significantly greater work loads.

How neuroscience can help organizations prevent “The Great Burnout.”

13/10/2022

We can all probably relate to having experienced low psychological safety at some point within a team or a group - that immediate feeling of being unable to speak up with ideas, questions or concerns due to a fear of ridicule or hurt or being embarrassed.

We know its critical factor for team performance.

The highest-performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety — the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having i...

06/10/2022

Ken Blanchard continues to pump out words of wisdom that are worth reading. In this blog he explores simple rules of "Working with Others"

Remember the days when we used to get report cards from our teachers? They gave us feedback not only about our class work but also about us as human beings. Perhaps you were one of the kids whose t…

21/09/2022

This should be must reading for all leaders! It explores the dimensions of great leadership and tests short and long-term thinking when it comes to how you behave in the areas of:

Results
Ethics
People
Culture

What’s the best legacy a leader can leave? Is it a track record of significant results achieved? What about how those results were achieved?

14/09/2022

Leadership "Presence" at any level is hard to define. The reality seems to be that people recognise it when they experience it and when they don't. This blog hopefully will give you some ideas of the things you need to do to enhance your presence as it seems to be as important as what you deliver.

In our ever-changing business and leadership world, the ability to lead requires an awareness of self that is anchored in executive presence.

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Forum New Zealand is the New Zealand distributor of AchieveForum (www.achieveforum.com) and a subsidiary of Platform Consulting. AchieveForum is a recognised global leader in linking learning to strategic business objectives. Their learning solutions help organisations effectively execute their business strategies by focusing on their most important asset: their people. We provide clients with practical and research-based advice and tailored programs that mobilise employees, accelerate business-initiative implementation, and improve agility. Forum New Zealand focuses on maximizing the impact individual and group behaviour has on effectively achieving time-critical business results. Our relationship with AchieveForum gives us access to their extensive global network of talented and expert facilitators and consultants. AchieveForum has offices and training professionals across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. We work closely with AchieveForum's Australian and Asia offices to support regional initiatives as well as having a strong client base in New Zealand.

In addition we have business relationships with three others leading consultancies; Korn Ferry, Grove Consulting Internal and AskYourTeam

Specialties Executive / management coaching, Training leaders at all levels, Accelerating strategy ex*****on, Strategic visioning and business planning, Business performance analysis and planning