Allegra Consulting

We are excited to announce that Ashlie Skudder is back with the Allegra team! Ashlie joins Seath, Sonia and Sarah as a Recruitment Consultant with experience in recruitment, customer service and administration spanning over the past two decades.

We are actively seeking great candidates for a variety of change and project roles; we welcome you to reach out to Ashlie for a confidential conversation to discuss your next opportunity. A referral program is in place if you recommend a candidate that we successfully place. Ashlie and the recruitment team will be able to answer any questions you may have about the program.

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➡️ Find out more about Allegra https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/

One of our favourite things about hybrid working is being able to celebrate team birthdays together, with cake and snacks getting us through the afternoon. Happy birthday to our Managing Director Caroline Mills; we hope you enjoyed your day! 🎉👏🎂🎈

Is your glass half-empty or half-full? Positive thinking can influence many aspects of your life for the better. Explore the latest insights that neuroscience shows around our thought patterns and how they can help us more broadly.

In next week's webinar, Tracey Penington will discuss:
😊 Positive Psychology
😊 Our Character Strengths
😊 PERMA +
😊 Practising Gratitude

Register for the free webinar here - https://www.thechangespace.net/webinars/power-positive-thinking.

We need to be thinking about wellbeing approaches in our change management plans. Consider in your approaches to change the following:

💖 What wellbeing approaches/support is in place in the organisation
📝 Do you need specific approaches to be incorporated into your change management planning?
👩🏽‍💼 Is the change you are implementing something that may impact the wellbeing of employees in a positive way or in a potentially harmful way?

✍️ Explore some of the learnings that came out of 2021 here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/blog/change-management-2021-%E2%80%93-what-have-we-learnt.

💭 For an in-depth discussion, join us at next week's virtual breakfast, where we will discuss current and future trends in change. Register here - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/228626055687.

Hybrid working has officially kicked off in the Allegra office! 🎉👏 We have been busy brainstorming how to make the most of our time in the office and utilise the space best.

It is great to be back as a team!

The past two years have created new ways of working and conducting change in organisations. Bring along your morning cuppa and join us at our next virtual breakfast, where Caroline Mills, Tracey Penington and Catherine Heffernan will discuss current trends in the change management industry and where we could be heading in the future.

Register for the complimentary session here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/events/current-and-future-trends-change-where-are-we-heading-virtual.

Bias (deliberate or unconscious) makes it difficult for women around the globe to get ahead - personally and professionally. Today is International Women's Day, and this year's theme is .

Breaking the bias involves actively calling out gender bias, discrimination and stereotyping in the community, workplaces, schools and social circles.

Together, let's break the bias today and beyond. 🌏🙅‍♀️🤝

Another successful day running our Change Impact Assessment Workshop! ✅👏 We love running it and always have such a great set of people turn up – change practitioners, consultants and HR practitioners. Thank you to the great group that made it a successful day sharing knowledge and experiences.

The past two years have demonstrated that people can adapt quickly when they really have to. However, continuing this pace of change in 2022 risks change saturation and increases the chances that employees will suffer change fatigue, if they aren't already.

Join the Allegra team for a virtual morning cuppa here - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/tackling-change-fatigue-virtual-tickets-228154174277.

The change program has been implemented, but how do we sustain the change? Check out some tips below! ✅⬇️

Understanding and helping people manage their reactions to change is a significant part of good change management and change leadership. Caroline Mills explores the importance of managing reactions to change and how you can manage reactions.

Read the blog here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/blog/change-resistance-or-change-reaction

Happy New Year! We hope that you had a safe and enjoyable holiday season. We kick off our 2022 by welcoming Sonia Singh to the team.

Sonia joins Seath and the broader team as a Senior Account Consultant with over 15 years experience in recruitment, sales and workforce solutions.

We welcome you to reach out to Sonia to discuss your next opportunity.

Living and working through a pandemic has provided us with more learnings and emerging themes than ever. Caroline Mills explores the below themes in her latest blog:

💼 The way we work is creating more complexity and challenges
😊 Strong focus on people and their wellbeing
💪 Building enterprise resilience/change capability or ChangeFit® as we call it
🗣️ The role of the change practitioner

Check out the blog here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/blog/change-management-2021-%E2%80%93-what-have-we-learnt.

Change Management 2021 – What have we learnt? Caroline Mills explores some emerging themes from 2021 for the change and transformation community.

Happy Holidays from everyone at Allegra🎄We hope your holiday season is filled with joy, love and laughter through to 2022.
We celebrated the end of a successful year over a Yum Cha lunch with the team!

A big thank you to our clients, contractors, community of practitioners and Allegra team. See you next year! 👋🎉😎

Fill up your learning and development calendar for 2022 with our events and webinars! We will be covering:
✅ Hybrid Working
✅ Change and Transformation
✅ Change Impact Assessments
✅ Change Fatigue
✅ ChangeFit® Leadership
✅ Current and Future Trends in Change
✅ Emotional Intelligence

Due to the uncertainty surrounding the current climate, our events will continue virtually for the time being, but we are hopeful to see you at some face-to-face events in 2022.

View upcoming events here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/events.
View upcoming webinars here - https://www.thechangespace.net/webinars.

As 2021 draws to a close, we reflect on the successful year we had thanks to our team, clients, contractors and community of practitioners.

Experiencing lockdowns once again highlighted the importance of wellbeing and social connection. We connected with a record number of people globally through our digital channels The Change Space and HealthyMe Digital in 2021.

We look forward to seeing what 2022 holds!

Empathy means you are attuned to other people’s emotions and different perspectives, and it helps us understand others when they communicate with us. Join Catherine Heffernan for next week's live webinar and pick up some practical ways to communicate with empathy to foster better relationships.

Register your spot here - https://www.thechangespace.net/webinars/communicating-empathy-0.

Finish off the year strong and reflect on 2021 with the Allegra team at our final breakfast session of the year! We have experienced so much change with many layers of complexity. Join the conversation to reflect on how we, individually and collectively, have navigated these times.

Register for the complimentary session here - https://www.allegraconsulting.com.au/events/embracing-change-and-complexity-lessons-learnt-2021-virtual.

Last month's annual event provided us with an insight into Jithma Beneragama's journey leading the digital transformation agenda with the Victorian Government.

Jithma emphasised:
• Don't make it (only) about the tech. Tech is the easy bit. Gaining the support of key stakeholders is just as important.
• To earn trust before scaling to larger projects. Take the people that needed to be convinced into the journey.
• Be brave in showing the way with digital transformation, and know you will need to show people how and be resilient when you get knocked back.
• Find a smaller initiative in an area that will stretch people's thinking and show them how digital transformation can make their lives easier.

How would you define the role of a Change Manager? Have the core roles and responsibilities changed?

Join our virtual discussion with Caroline Mills, Cat Heffernan and Tracey Penington to uncover the changes and evolution we are seeing in Change Management roles.

Spots for this session are quickly filling up! Register for the complimentary session here - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/166115605247.

It has already been one month since our annual event, where has the time gone? We loved Jen Rendell's presentation where she delved into Telstra's Agile and Ways of Working Journey, which was rated in the top 10% globally.

In more detail, Jen highlighted:
• The importance of having a 'north star' and putting ways of working into everything.
• When planning sprints/quarters, be very clear on outcomes and plan for those.
• Connect through stand-ups, regular retros/reviews and take the time to celebrate and make the process fun.

The Allegra team will be turning on their out of office and taking an extra-long weekend to reset and recharge. We believe that mental wellness breaks keep us healthy and improve productivity, making for a healthier and happier team.

If you have a query, reach out to us at [email protected] and we will respond on our return.

Take care and remember to make some time for self-care!

Join our virtual conversation to share and hear what others in the community are doing at an organisational, team, and individual level to support wellbeing during these turbulent times.

Register for the complimentary session - Managing Change Holistically: Supporting our Employees Wellbeing with Caroline Mills and Cat Heffernan here - https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/managing-change-holistically-supporting-our-employees-wellbeing-virtual-tickets-165865160159.