by Rosemary Howard | Jul 25, 2019 | Insights, Opinion, Top News
Only 16% of employees are women. As a result many mining organisations are still very blokey in terms of their culture and therefore often women tend not to find them a culture they want to stay in. Most mining organisations also are key parts of rural and remote...
by Rosemary Howard | Jul 20, 2019 | Insights, Opinion, Top News
In many mining organisations today, management still operates largely on a command and control basis. This means most employees go passive and wait to be told what to do. The fact is most of us sleep walk through work and life, often getting away with taking as...
by Rosemary Howard | Jul 17, 2019 | Insights, Older News, Opinion, Top News
We hear a lot about diversity. So much so that some say it is old news. Others say that gender diversity is negatively affecting men and their opportunities. The fact is that we as humans don’t generally do diversity well. We are instinctively more comfortable with...
by Rosemary Howard | May 23, 2019 | Older News, Opinion
Mining is often seen as a laggard industry in terms of applying good management practices and its risk adverse culture is seen as suppressing innovation and new ways of thinking. The increasingly high bar for social licence requirements means exploration and mining...
by Rosemary Howard | Mar 7, 2019 | Older News, Opinion
We are on a journey which is far from over. From the animal world dominated by instinctive, unconscious behaviour to humanity liberated from dogma by engaging powerful, critical thinking. One dimension of this journey is gender. We should celebrate the progress...
