Success Stories

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...

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 ...

Improve People and Customer Engagement and Drive Growth

It’s widely reported by Gallup and others that around seven out of 10 workers in organisations are either not engaged, or are actively disengaged in...

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...

The 5 Key Drivers of Business

“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred oth...

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...

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,...

The Balancing Act: What Makes Us Successful Can Also Be Our Derailer

The Art of the Emotionally Intelligent Leader I remember my father, a highly successful business man, saying to me, “son, there is a fine line betwe...

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...

Dealing with Hidden Resistance

Your plan to achieve your desired strategy is in place. The goals are clear. The scorecard is in place. The lead measures are prioritised and accounta...

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...

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 ...

The Key to Employee Engagement Isn’t What You Think

There’s no question that employee engagement is one of the most important topics that companies face, especially when dealing with today’s workfor...

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...

Advancing Women, Changing Mindsets

It’s 2017, and it’s no secret that Australian organisations are trailing well behind where they should be with female representation at senior lev...

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 ...

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...

Do you have a management team or a leadership team?

The business is going well, growing year on year and you may even be the market leader. But things are changing, competition is near, disruption is a ...

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

Does leadership really matter?

August 2016 Much has been written about the importance of leadership. Whether it’s on the home front, in our schools, at the office or even on the s...

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...