Stonewater Consulting Group Australia

Executive Recruitment & Talent Management Consultancy

Stonewater Consulting Group (SCG) is an executive search and consulting firm providing Human Capital advice to our customers across Australia and Asia-Pacific. The success of our firm is based on an in-depth understanding of people dynamics in both local and global corporations and their senior leadership requirements.

At Stonewater Consulting Group we work in partnership with our customers to deliver an experience that not only meets expectations but consistently exceeds them. Whether you are an Executive seeking meaningful career advice or an Employer wishing to develop the very best Talent Management Programmes, SCG will provide invaluable advice and a premium service.


 

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The Success Formula
For a very long time, researchers and academics have been trying to qualify and quantify the characteristics of success. SCG carried out a study centred on business leaders who exhibited ongoing and prolonged success. What it revealed is that they share a common set of characteristics and personality traits.
Outplacements - Working Out The "Out Of Work"
The weak economy is taking an increasingly heavy toll on jobs, with announced workforce reductions up 30 percent from a year ago. However, despite the need to cut costs, a new survey by Stonewater Consulting Group finds that the majority of companies are doing whatever it takes to preserve the perks their employees have grown to value preferring instead to cut unnecessary jobs and produce a leaner, meaner, and more efficient business.
Recruitment Strategies To Beat A Slowing Economy
Here's the truth: the economy is slowing and the nation's broadest measures of growth are predicting worse to come. Unemployment has risen and job growth has slowed... so what's the good the news? SCG gives you the reasons to be positive in this climate.
The First Three Months In Your New Executive Role
The first three months are a critical period when starting a new role. Stonewater Consulting Group looks at the bars set by many of our best CFOs and shares the mantras they live by when starting a new job. Our discussions with executives and managers across Australia revealed many common experiences about the challenges of settling into a new role and how to set the ground work for success over the long term.
Companies look internally to solve recruitment challenges
Recruitment challenges are taken up by current staff. Nearly six out of ten small businesses fill staff vacancies by recruiting the friends and family members of their current employees. Amid labour and skills shortages, businesses with 20 or fewer on staff are looking to fill the gaps via word-of-mouth from those already in their ranks.
Global Business Trends - Future Proofing
The phrase future proofing describes the elusive process of trying to anticipate future developments, so that action can be taken to minimise possible negative consequences, and to seize opportunities. In a time of increasing uncertainty, with the downturn of the global markets, changing business models and a shift in the economic balance of power, attention is turning to survival strategies for the short to midterm. SCG’s research of current global business trends point to "Future Proofing".
Keys to Best Practice Successsion Management
Succession planning and management is playing an increasingly important role in many organisations. However, more holistic and strategic approaches often elude both HR professionals and executives. SCG examines the evolution of succession management and reveals how a number of best practice organisations are leading the way.
Supersizing to Downsizing - The Powershift In Employee/Employer Relations
No longer regarded as a short-term fix, downsizing has transitioned into a management tool that helps companies adjust to changes in technology, the global economy and business direction. With that trend firmly entrenched, HR and Executives are facing a new challenge: Reconciling the conflicting goals of workforce realignment while retaining talented workers.
Starved Of or Striving For Talent - The Proof Is In The Pudding
SCG asks if we are really “talent-starved” or simply not eating our greens. How companies advertise jobs and source candidates in a talent-starved market is changing at an accelerating pace. In most cases, companies are reacting to market conditions rather than responding with an appropriate strategy.
How To Avoid Becoming Another Bear Stearns
The past months have witnessed all sorts of mayhem in the global economy; with congested credit markets, currency devaluations, soaring oil prices, decreasing house prices and a stock exchange that has more swings and rollercoaster rides than an amusement park. SCG explores the reasons for our failing financial empire and asks if there is more than “global markets” to blame.
Latest Trends In The Workplace
Between the skills shortage and the ageing population, employers across Australia are offering more than just a competitive salary to catch and keep good workers. Forget the gold watch; long service leave, retention benefits, free ipods and three-day weekends are just the beginning.
Workplace Predictions for 2010
The majority of predictions are that 2010 is going to be a big year for business. At SCG we believe that the year will be marked by some significant changes in the evolving relationship between employer and employee. Most of these trends have been in the making for some time, but the most recent downturn of 2009 has accelerated and intensified the changing nature of the employee-employer relationship.