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May 29
1 min

How to Support the Move to Your New World Order

Plan and communicate your change response. Tools to help organisations respond to any kind of massive change, or shift, including COVID-19

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How to Plan your way out of COVID-19 lockdown

Cairo Walker

May 22
2 min

How to Plan your way out of COVID-19 lockdown

In the past couple of months, so much has changed, every organisation has been disrupted to a greater or lessor extent. The economy has c...

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Mastering Your New Normal - Making Sense of Research

Cairo Walker

May 15
2 min

Mastering Your New Normal - Making Sense of Research

Toolset to make sense of research into the organisational experiences during the COVID-19 Pandemic and how to plan the move from lockdown.

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How to Master Your New Normal - A Practical Research Tool

Cairo Walker

May 10
3 min

How to Master Your New Normal - A Practical Research Tool

Step 1 of a 4-Step Framework. Organisational Research & Planning as we come out of Lockdown and move to our 'New Normal.'

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How to Master Your New Normal - A Four-Step Framework

Cairo Walker

May 1
2 min

How to Master Your New Normal - A Four-Step Framework

A four-step framework for assessing where we are now; looking at the shape of our organisations as we come out of lockdown & planning ahead.

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How to Design Fantastic Online Workflows with Confidence

Cairo Walker

Apr 28
6 min

How to Design Fantastic Online Workflows with Confidence

A practical guide for business people on designing & implementing simple online eworkflows to support your business processes.

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New to Virtual Meetings? This is What You Need to Know

Cairo Walker

Apr 22
6 min

New to Virtual Meetings? This is What You Need to Know

Newcomers to video conferencing use the resource differently from those who have been on there for some time. Here are the differences.

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What is the significance of the @ symbol?

Cairo Walker

Apr 12
5 min

What is the significance of the @ symbol?

Can we love our way back to email — or have we moved on forever? Does being always on and immediately responsive via email have a cost?

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How to be Successful with a No-budget Work Project

Cairo Walker

Apr 2
6 min

How to be Successful with a No-budget Work Project

A useful tool and five unusual sources of funds to get your project off the poverty line. Embrace the constraint FTW.

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How to Avoid the Apocalypse - A New World Beyond the Crisis

Cairo Walker

Mar 30
4 min

How to Avoid the Apocalypse - A New World Beyond the Crisis

How can professionals (including writers) who are living in a world driven by the ever-changing COVID-19 pandemic move outside the noise?

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User Research in the Time of C-19 - A Feel-Good How-To

Cairo Walker

Mar 26
6 min

User Research in the Time of C-19 - A Feel-Good How-To

Running a Project in this Business, Economic and Social Environment. Begin with user research - conduct one-on-one, workplace observation, w

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Designing for Simplicity and Peace of Mind

Amanda Broomhall

Mar 15
3 min

Designing for Simplicity and Peace of Mind

In a time where there is a Designing for a narrow audience sometimes produces better results.

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Office Work Cancelled Until Further Notice — How to Survive ‘Sudden Remote Working’

Cairo Walker

Mar 11
16 min

Office Work Cancelled Until Further Notice — How to Survive ‘Sudden Remote Working’

Recent events - Coronavirus and bushfires forced us to work from home - suddenly. Here are tips for both employees and managers.

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Cairo Walker

Feb 29
9 min

Lessons from an Exemplar Company

The best company culture and exemplary managers - how to create a fantastic company culture.

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Turbo Charge your Digital Workforce with a People-first Approach

Cairo Walker

Feb 19
4 min

Turbo Charge your Digital Workforce with a People-first Approach

Technology is easier than ever. Organisations instead focus on building a ‘digital workforce’ (digitally-enabled employees).

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#1 Workplace to make a Psychopath Successful is the Weird World of Valve

Cairo Walker

Feb 14
5 min

#1 Workplace to make a Psychopath Successful is the Weird World of Valve

Valve is good to A-type personalities looking to get ahead, DIY, quick fix, no-rules, bullying, being smarter. Lord of the Flies.

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5 Business Lessons from a Top SuperBike Rider

Cairo Walker

Feb 8
17 min

5 Business Lessons from a Top SuperBike Rider

Tapping into the race strategy of my New Zealand SuperBike rider, Tarbon Walker to see what businesses can take away from the track.

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