Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer is the founder of Change Factory. Change Factory helps organisations who do do not like their business outcomes to get better outcomes by changing people's behaviour. Businesses we help have greater clarity of purpose and ability to achieve their desired business outcomes. To see more articles and learn more about what we do visit http://www.changefactory.com.au ©2006 Change Factory

Articles by this Author

Why Training Fails to Provide Learning for the Workplace

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 07/17/2007
Personal Growth
Rating: Unrated

If the objective of training is for people to apply that learning in the workplace and make an observable difference to an organisation's results, then almost all corporate training fails to achieve its objective and even fails to measure whether it achieved its objective.

In My Own Image

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 07/6/2007
Leadership
Rating: Unrated

People of all ages in business make the mistake of seeing the whole of their world in a mirror image of their own reflection. In all cases this level of ego has more disadvantages than it has advantages. They disrupt teams or prevent teams from forming. A brief description of my top five observations of people exhibiting this characteristic are....

Leadership; Its a Matter of trust

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 06/12/2007
Leadership
Rating: Unrated

Leadership of organisations is not for the faint hearted. It can be a difficult and lonely place at times. This is particularly so if the leader does not have a supportive team. However, the lack of a supportive team is probably as good an indicator as any, that leadership skills are lacking.

Leading Change; Its 24x7

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 06/12/2007
Change Management
Rating: Unrated

Change has been occurring since before the beginning of man, so it is a fair bet that it will not stop soon. Whether organisations like it or not, they will change.

Time Management: Common Meeting Failures

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 06/1/2007
Time Management
Rating: Unrated

"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything" says John Galbraith. I admit in my career in Shell that I avoided meetings like the plague. Especially those times when I was in a head office and increasingly as I fulfilled more senior positions in the company.

Trust and Productivity

By Kevin Dwyer
Published 05/30/2007
Communication , Leadership , Motivation
Rating: Unrated

When two people trust each other, their relationship is productive. When two organisations have trusting relationships and interactions their relationship is productive. When trust is violated, relationships are unproductive and organisations and individuals suffer.