ARGYLE CONTRACT GLITTERS FOR TENIX SDR

One of the largest fabrication and installation contracts worth over $175 million in Western Australia has been awarded to Tenix SDR for the underground Diamond Operation at Argyle in the East Kimberley’s.

Australian Corporate Challenge was tasked with developing a Charter of values and behaviours to ensure zero harm throughout the 2 year contract as well as strategic training.

This was combined with identifying the key leaders for the project and investing in ‘leading edge’ leadership training and profiling to ensure the project is on time, on budget and injury free.

A recently conducted 2 day professional and personal development conference completed by Australian Corporate Challenge saw an outstanding Charter and Life Saving rules completed in conjunction with personal work/life and wellness training overarched with Leadership Skills needed in the tough and unforgiving environment of Underground Mining.

 Using experiential learning simulation activities under the watchful eyes of Australian Corporate Challenge staff, Tenix SDR leaders were stretched, evaluated and guided to achieve critical objectives, while ensuring every team member was actively engaged.

As Peter Davis, Tenix SDR Operations Manager, explained “We have to have a leadership team onsite that is exemplary in their behaviours towards safety and their duty of care to all our staff. This training is critical to our success”.

ARGYLE CONTRACT GLITTERS FOR TENIX SDR

One of the largest fabrication and installation contracts worth over $175 million in Western Australia has been awarded to Tenix SDR for the underground Diamond Operation at Argyle in the East Kimberley’s.

Australian Corporate Challenge was tasked with developing a Charter of values and behaviours to ensure zero harm throughout the 2 year contract as well as strategic training.

This was combined with identifying the key leaders for the project and investing in ‘leading edge’ leadership training and profiling to ensure the project is on time, on budget and injury free.

A recently conducted 2 day professional and personal development conference completed by Australian Corporate Challenge saw an outstanding Charter and Life Saving rules completed in conjunction with personal work/life and wellness training overarched with Leadership Skills needed in the tough and unforgiving environment of Underground Mining.

 Using experiential learning simulation activities under the watchful eyes of Australian Corporate Challenge staff, Tenix SDR leaders were stretched, evaluated and guided to achieve critical objectives, while ensuring every team member was actively engaged.

As Peter Davis, Tenix SDR Operations Manager, explained “We have to have a leadership team onsite that is exemplary in their behaviours towards safety and their duty of care to all our staff. This training is critical to our success”.

HEALTH A PRIORITY AT THIESS SERVICES

Thiess Services (Western Australia) have launched an ‘industry leading’ program in partnership with Australian Corporate Challenge to invest in the health and wellbeing of its work force.

Under the leadership of WA Manager Andy Wood and supported by Water Resources Managers Don Chappell and Ian Marshall along with HSE Advisor Paul Laycock, Australian Corporate Challenge and the University of Western Australia’s school of Exercise Science are completing extensive health screening, not only anthropometric data, but also of life style.

This will allow a snap shot of the health of the work force to support a ‘best practice’ strategy moving forward.

The completely volunteer testing has had an outstanding take up rate of 78%.

The testing covers blood profiling, functional movement activities, cardiovascular levels and basic anthropometric data of height, weight and girth ratio. Further data is being collected pertaining to exercise patterns, diet, alcohol, smoking and recreational patterns.

Each staff member will receive a complete profile of their scores compared to National standards, along with comparisons of mean scores by age and gender of the Thiess work force.

The enthusiasm shown by those tested so far and the feedback from those staff all goes well for individuals taking ownership for improving their own health and wellness, with the ongoing support of Australian Corporate Challenge.

As one Thiess worker explained “It is a wakeup call for all of us, to pay more attention to our own personal health as we get older, thank you for the opportunity”.

TENIX GAS MOVING FROM GOOD TO GREAT

Tenix Gas Victoria began its successful journey way back in 2005 with a partnership with Dr Garry Tester and Australian Corporate Challenge. With the excellent stewardship of firstly Nick Martin, then Jacob Bonisch and now Marco Lupacchini investing in leadership and team development, Tenix Gas is now a ‘lighthouse’ across the Tenix business units, which has consistently shown on the bottom line.

 Again in April 2011 a two day live in leadership conference highlighted how the 30 identified leaders of the business had grown in stature with their skills.

 Under the guidance of Garry Tester, the leadership team was objectively measured, involved in experiential (hands on) activities to demonstrate their developing leadership skills and involved in ‘leading edge’ learning to keep Tenix Gas at the forefront of the business units.

 Commander Richard Cass from the Australian Navy (ANZAC Class ships), spoke at length about the similarities between Military Leadership and Business Leadership to ensure the ‘troops’ develop the desired behaviours to keep them safe. This message fitted well with the Tenix initiative of ‘Zero Harm’ and the Charter of behaviours developed for the Gas division.

 After two intense days, the words of the long serving Manager John Spallotta summed up the conference:

“I have been around a long time and it is refreshing to see the young boys step up to take this leadership training. They are our future and I love being part of this great initiative by Marco”  

CURRIE HALL SAILS INTO TEAM WORK 2011

The Currie Hall leadership team are living their Charter through their actions. Under Principal Chris Massey, Currie Hall, the accommodation arm of the University of Western Australia, is moving their student housing to a ‘leading edge’ facility in Australia.

As Chris explained, “by investing in up skilling our leadership team, a cascading effect onto our students will be the result. We want to have the best collegiate community of any University accommodation.” To this end over the past 3 years, Australian Corporate Challenge and the Currie Hall Executive have developed an effective Charter of desired and inspirational values, up skilled staff in management and leadership and practice their new skills through ‘experiential learning’ activities.

To further build the leadership team in April 2011, a half day workshop welcomed the new staff and revisited the Currie Hall Charter, while developing the desired leadership and behaviours of the team.

To reinforce the importance of team training an afternoon of sailing on the Foundation 36 yachts was organised. This highlighted the team work skills required to build a high performance Currie Hall leadership team, which will allow progress towards ‘best practice’ in University accommodation, anywhere in Australia. As Janet Linn, Assistant Principal, explained “we are all so time poor, especially with being on call for the students (24 x 7), to have time like this to talk and interact with each other while learning, will build us into a formidable and caring team at Currie Hall.”