Success Stories

Unlocking value chain success by focusing on the customer

There’s not a business on the planet that doesn't have a P & L, a balance sheet and a cash flow. Every business, it doesn't matter whether you'r...

Identifying High Potential Talent : Avoid the Pitfalls

Employees may be a company’s greatest asset, but not all employees are equal. High potential employees have been proven to be 91% more valuable to ...

Building Business Acumen with NAB Graduates

The Opportunity CEOs and Senior Business Leaders often discuss that most of their people are professionally competent - i.e. they understand the respo...

How do you ‘Make’ People Accountable?

One of the most common themes in our conversations with CEOs is the frustration they have with the lack of accountability in their organisations. They...

Up Your Profit: Online Business Acumen Case Study

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Leading your Team Through Change

In business today, the one constant is ‘change’. Organisations and the teams that make them up are constantly facing changes, whether it is a new ...

Being your Best Team. Set up for Success in 2019.

How do you achieve your 3 year vision to +/- 10% accuracy?  Start the year right with team planning. High Performing companies are made up of great ...

Enabling Value Chain Growth through Understanding the Five Business Drivers

It’s surprising how few individuals really understand how their company makes money. Whilst it seems like a simple question on the surface, as you c...

Rethinking Employee Engagement – Are We Missing The Obvious?

We all know that high levels of employee engagement will lead to better productivity, improved retention of top talent and better business results. So...

N.E.W.S. Navigating in Times of Change

https://youtu.be/h-xaBifYF4M We live in a VUCA world of fast changes and uncertainty. Change has become the new norm. At the same time, employees' eng...

Engaging the Executive Team in 2018

Here are two key questions to help guide your 2018 Planning: Do you wish your extended leadership team demonstrated more ownership and accountability ...

How do you move your team forward when 50% are not on board?

As leaders we are always looking for more. More revenue, more profit, more growth, more market share. We want to be high performing. For some, it’s ...

Leadership: A Critical Factor in M&A

Analysts are bullish on Australia’s mid-market mergers and acquisitions in 2017.  The Australian market was strong overall, Mergermarket and Pitche...

What Your CFO Wants You to Know: How Business Acumen Can Help You Communicate with Your CFO

As an HR and learning leader, you’re constantly looking for solutions to improve company culture, help employees perform better and be more aligned,...

What will it take to win in 2025?

Leadership plays a vital role in a business’s strategy, culture and performance. All organisations are now faced with changing market conditions, em...

Kevin Cope – 5 Business Drivers

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The Four Keys to Maximise Your Execution

In my last article I spoke of a client a that I am working with whose industry has changed and market position eroded as the competition copied-the...

Why is the follow through so poor?

I’m working with a client whose industry has changed rapidly – their once-leading market position has eroded as the competition copied-then-develo...

Lighthouse is a Business of Tomorrow!

We are pleased to announce that have been awarded a Business of Tomorrow in the inaugural Westpac Businesses of Tomorrow program. This program was set...

The Importance of Mindset in Innovation

In today’s global market the rapid pace of change is creating unique challenges for organisations, requiring them to develop new skills and cultures...

When your Leadership Moment is the Team Meeting

Sports team have the weekend game to assess their progress and fine tune their performance process to get the results they hope for. In the corporate ...

Why you aren’t getting accountability and what to do about it

Accountability is one of those elusive commodities that everyone is looking for. Corporations are trying to drive more productivity and performance a...

What Happens When You Mentor and Train Your Talented Women?

Imagine if Serena Williams hadn't been mentored or didn't have training drills? Would she have won 23 Grand Slams, 7 Australian Opens, 6 US Opens, 6 ...

Advancing Women: Solving a Talent Development Issue

“As a CEO, or as an executive or director for that matter, if women aren’t proportionately represented throughout your organisation, you aren’t ...

Building Organisation-Wide Leadership to Successfully Implement Strategy

Today’s organisations are at a pivotal point – balancing short and long term objectives, managing constant change and an urgent need to increase e...

True North

Peter Nankervis, Managing Director of Lighthouse, recently partnered with the CEO/HRD/EML Forum to produce a webinar on the importance of having a Tru...

Doing more with less: Does it always have to be cost cutting?

As one of my most experienced and erstwhile colleagues recently said; ”…I’ve worked for all sorts of businesses and dealt with a wide range of p...

What makes a sucessful leader?

NSW Premier Mike Baird talks to Lighthouse's Peter Nankervis about what makes a successful leader. Lighthouse are specialists in developing leadership...

Susan Colantuono: The career advice you probably didn’t get

The Principles of NEWS

The N.E.W.S.™ navigation process allows individuals, teams & organizations to navigate effectively in the midst of rapid changes & uncertain...

Proactivity is the Key to Boosting Performance

  July 2016 We are fast coming upon the half way point of the year and many of you will be reflecting in one of two directions: “how do I build...