About
Hey and welcome to the bit about me. Thanks for popping by to check it out.
I’m obsessed with designing workplaces where people love being at work. In 25 years working with teams and businesses I’ve seen how rare it is, and how magical it can be, when we’re all singing from the same hymn sheet. Moving in the same direction. Sharing the same vision.
I call this ‘working as one’. And it’s what I do. I help leaders and organisations work as one.
When this happens we distribute leadership, share the load, enable healthy conflict, empower others, reduce the silos and increase accountability. How good is that?
My flagship program is called (not surprisingly) ‘Working as One’. It’s about doing the work in a team to get to a real place of high performance. Of working as one.
I facilitate of club for people and culture leaders across Australasia. It's called the P&C Circle. It's a place to have conversations that matter, with a community that inspires to create cultures that love people.
I’ve also been called Australia’s leading expert on feedback, and have a ‘Embedding Feedback’ program that helps you give feedback that doesn’t suck (and actually changes the whole culture in the process).
And finally, every now and then I run leadership offsites. These are not for the faint hearted, and are definitely not another tick the box strategic planning process. But they are pretty extraordinary, and it’s some of my favourite work.
What else do you want to know about me?
I’m a best-selling author. I’m an ex-Accountant (but don’t hold that against me). On my website you can see some of the cool clients I’ve worked with and the different TV shows and the like where I’ve appeared (it’s all quite impressive, even if I do say so myself).
People say I am passionate, a little left-of-centre, authentic, straight shooting and ‘quirky corporate’. I’m an avid yogi, an embarrassing mum to my two kids, an excellent reverse parker, and I still speak passable school girl French.
Articles by Georgia
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What do you want your people to say about you?
What do you want your people to say about you?
By Georgia Murch (GAICD)
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How measuring energy consumption helps us be better leaders
How measuring energy consumption helps us be better leaders
By Georgia Murch (GAICD)
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Is ‘shiny object syndrome’ affecting how you lead?
Is ‘shiny object syndrome’ affecting how you lead?
By Georgia Murch (GAICD)
Contributions
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What do you do if your team is struggling with low productivity?
I think productivity is a weasel word. It means different things to many people therefore we need to assess what is the real problem. In my experience most teams (except for manufacturing) rarely know how to measure it in the first place. Especially when tangible products are not involved. So get clear on what you are looking for. Then measure it for months to decide what the goals are. Setting them beforehand is a game of make up. Now we can decide what the problem is and what to do about it.
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How can you train associates to be more resilient?
We are facing a new generation of workers who have been brought up with more nurture than ever before and less pressure to fend for themselves. They are the generation that receive a ribbon for turning up to a race, whether they win a place or not. So that have not been forced to 'push through'. There is a dark and a light of this. This then shows up in the workplace. What we need to do is communicate clear boundaries of what is ok and what's not. Then let them know, with respect, when they are missing them and communicate the consequences - not threats. It's not a simple training solution. It seems simple. It is. The problem is not just the lack of resilience. It's our back of courage to hold others to account, in kindness.
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You’re looking to measure employee engagement. What are the most effective ways to do it?
I don't think we have a content issue here. That is, we know the value of engagement (although the word is still a weasel one and means different things to many). We believe that focusing on culture is important though to imperative. The problem is not belief. The problem is implementation. Most of the time we run the surveys, at minimum share the data, and then rarely action things from them well enough. It's often not through lack of intent. It's focusing on too many initiatives at once, or the ones that don't make a big enough difference like yoga at lunchtimes or tickets to Let's not run another survey when we didn't make a difference on the last one. That ironically disengages and we are back to square one minus.
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Is there a clear delineation between supervision and line management in your healthcare service? The results of our recent workplace insights survey…
Is there a clear delineation between supervision and line management in your healthcare service? The results of our recent workplace insights survey…
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I am writing this under the sound of a loudly ticking clock in my mum's house. There is a clock in every room. Ticking. Tocking. Chiming. Flashing…
I am writing this under the sound of a loudly ticking clock in my mum's house. There is a clock in every room. Ticking. Tocking. Chiming. Flashing…
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How to empower through autonomy - but watch its limits A leader for whom colleagues worked had a great reputation for providing autonomy. Smart…
How to empower through autonomy - but watch its limits A leader for whom colleagues worked had a great reputation for providing autonomy. Smart…
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Volunteer Facilitator
National Student Leadership Forum
- Present 10 years
Civil Rights and Social Action
The NSLF is an opportunity for the emerging generation of leaders to discuss the significance of faith and values as foundations for effective leadership. One student described it as; “A deep, inspirational, bonding and life changing opportunity that draws out the best of the individuals involved and helps you become even more.”
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