Allen Palmer

Oct 31, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | John Glenn |Simon Jones |Shaun Rigby |Allen Palmer

Most of us have to get stuff done – at least at work! For some, it’s simply done by managing a process. Start at the beginning, work through the process, end up with an outcome. For most who read this, life is more complicated, we have to deliver an outcome. However, too often, the process for reaching that outcome is unclear. Even when we settle on a process that seems clear, for some reason it doesn’t unfold as planned. How do you actually get stuff done?

Mar 24, 2024 | themandarin.com.au | Allen Palmer

Cassie, an EL2, enrolled herself in a plain language workshop to improve her reviewing efficiency, but she was detained by an unruly edit and missed it. Well, one of her did. In an alternate universe, another Cassie concluded that it made no sense to let inefficiency keep her from a workshop designed to address it. She attended then sent her entire team. A year on, let’s compare the pair. Same name. Same age. Same APS level.