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Transformed Pty Ltd achieves GreenBizCheck Gold Certification
02-Sep-2011Transformed Pty Ltd is pleased to announce that it has reached GreenBizCheck (www.greenbizcheck.com) gold certification.
GreenBizCheck's practical and effective program helped Transformed Pty Ltd quickly implement environmentally responsible business practices that have helped save resources, attract customers, motivate staff and help protect the environment.
"We are providing businesses with a practical and low cost means of taking action to help reduce their increasing impact on climate change", said GreenBizCheck Managing Director Nicholas Bernhardt. "Our assessment and action-oriented report is so thorough we offer a 100% money back guarantee that clients will easily save the cost of certification in the first year." he said.
"Transformed Pty Ltd enjoyed working with GreenBizCheck to efficiently reduce energy, water and waste costs in our business. Aside from the cost savings we were keen to set a high green standard in our market and independently show Transformed Pty Ltd is committed to sustainable business practices." Transformed Pty Ltd's Michael Young said.
For further information please contact:
Michael Young, Transformed Pty Ltd, info@transformed.com.au
Transformed builds Olympic capability
28-Jul-2011Award winning training company Transformed Pty Ltd has been helping self-starting individuals to achieve their career goals since 2006.
Now they are helping a female staff member to BOX IN THE 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS.
RANKED NUMBER 2 IN THE WORLD IN HER DIVISION Shannon O’Connell is tipped to represent Australia at 2012 London Olympics as part of the first ever women’s boxing team to attend and possibly go on to represent Australia at the next Commonwealth Games.
Her staggering accomplishments include:
- 6 x State Champion
- 4 x Australian Champion
- 2 x Oceania Champion
- 1 x Arafura Games Champion
- 1 x Arafura Games Bronze Medallist
- Represented Australia in 2 World Championships (The 2nd time finished in the top 8)
- Currently Ranked No 2 in the world in her weight (Olympic division)
Shannon’s goals are to represent Australia at 2012 London Olympics and being part of the first ever Australian women’s boxing team attending the Olympics.
She does all this whilst balancing a sales career at Transformed and a family.
Driven by honouring the memory of her late father who was a champion speedway rider Kevin O’Connell, Shannon is about to embark on a four week tour of Europe to attend training camps and gain wider boxing experience. This is as a result of her talent being spotted recently in an ACT match by Boxing Australia.
Shannon is looking for sponsorship during her tour and to assist her on her path to the Olympics.
If you are able to make a donation and support the first Australian female boxing team get to the 2012 London Olympics please contact: shannon.oconnell@transformed.com.au
For more information on how Transformed can help pave your pathway to success contact:
Michael Young
P: 1300 738 720
www.transformed.com.au
info@transformed.com.au
Transformed wins 2011 Australian Business Award for Project Management
24-Jul-2011
Transformed has been recognised among Australia’s most progressive organisations, winning the Australian Business Award for Project Management in the 2011 Awards. The Australian Business Awards challenges the full spectrum of private, public and non-profit sector organisations in Australia through its comprehensive business and product award categories. Now in its sixth year, the Australian Business Awards program recognises organisations that demonstrate the core values of business excellence, product excellence, corporate responsibility, sustainability and commercial success in their respective industries. A total of 103 recipients were honoured from the 928 organisations that participated in the 2011 Awards. The Australian Business Award for Project Management recognises organisations that demonstrate excellence in project management. Commenting on the win, Michael Young, Managing Director said: “Transformed has been passionate about our role in the developing individual and organizational capability in project, program and portfolio management. Working with key industry bodies, we proudly play an active role leading and shaping the project management industry. It is an honor to be commended for our professional contributions to the industry as a whole by the Australian Business Awards” As an AIPM Endorsed Course Provider and AIPM sponsor, Transformed’s team of award-winning experts deliver a range of project management qualifications, certifications and short courses that combine best-practice theory as well as real world practical skills.
Transformed Managing Director, Michael Young, has been instrumental in developing key industry standards including developing the world’s first competency standard for project portfolio managers on a voluntary basis on behalf of the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM). It is intended that this Standard will be used to improve project portfolio management capability in organisations, which in turn promotes efficient resource use and more profitable project outcomes. Tara Johnston, Program Director of the Australian Business Awards, said the standard of entries for 2011 was a testament to the strength and resilience of the Australian economy. “Australian businesses continue to adapt business processes, invest in product development and develop dynamic e-business initiatives that increase productivity and quality standards for all. The Australian Business Awards provide a welcome opportunity for organisations committed to business and product excellence to receive recognition throughout their respective industries for driving positive business outcomes,” said Johnston. “We are proud that the Awards continue to promote the key values in the workplace which foster a vibrant organisational culture and encourage enterprise, product innovation, service excellence, marketing excellence, environmental sustainability and community contribution. We would like to congratulate all the 2011 winners for achieving exceptional results within the respective award categories.” Business award entries are separated by industry classification per award category and evaluated in accordance with the award criteria across seven main areas, including leadership and strategy, impact on industry, adaptability and sustainability, human resource management, customer relationship management, process management and evidence of success. For more information about Transformed, please contact:
The Awards commenced in 2005 and are open to all private, puplic and non-profit sector organisations operating in Australia. This includes multi-national subsidiaries, government departments, agencies or bodies, franchisors and non-government organisations. The mission of the Australian Business Awards is: Details regarding the Awards program can be obtained at www.businessawards.com.au
Michael Young
P: 1300 738 720
www.transformed.com.au
info@transformed.com.au
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Other Useful Articles
- Secrets to getting the best from Tender Evaluations
- Formal planning for the tender evaluation phase of procurement is required in government procurement, but much less focus is placed on evaluation in the private sector. However, there can be some good learning's from government. Some examples include; a thorough approach that allows for open competition or not using price as the only factor.
Media Release - Secrets to getting the best from Tender Evaluations (164 KB)
- Top 10 Procurement Risks - Tender preparation
- Responding to RFTs (requests for tenders) can be risky, given that your tender response is a legal offer and you may be bound to the terms within it, if the client accepts it. Responding to a complex tender can also be very time-consuming, tying up substantial company resources for significant periods of time.
Article - Top 10 Procurement Risks - Tender preparation (51 KB)
- There is more to Risk Management than just OHS
- There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld Article - There is more to risk management than just OHS (109 KB)
RPL and your licence
Would you consider going out on a construction site without a hard hat, steel toe caps and a high vis vest? No. However, there are construction workers that go on site without the appropriate licence. Article - RPL and your licence (76 KB)
- Innovation in Training
- Innovation doesn’t just come out of highly paid product development think tanks. Innovation and creativity can be applied in training too. By thinking outside the square, barriers can be torn down and progress can be made.
Article - Innovation in Training (45 KB)
- Isn't it about time you got qualified?
- Training is not the only way to get a valuable qualification.
- Leadership vs Management
- Leaders have followers. Managers have subordinates. The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they inspire the people who work with them.
- Projected Problems - published in Management Today May 2008
- Wherever you look, on the web, in the media and around coffee tables, there are more discussions every day about the national skills shortage and its adverse impact on projects. News stories of the past 12 months are littered with words like 'gloom', 'obstacle' and the now cliched 'war for talent'.
Article - Projected Problems - published in Management Today May 2008 (1064 KB)
- Do You Take Risks or Manage Them?
- The Australian and New Zealand Standard for Risk Management AS/NZS 4360:2004 defines risk management as: “the culture, processes and structures that are directed towards realizing potential opportunities whilst managing adverse effects”.
- What is Stakeholder Analysis and Why Should You Do It?
- Scottish poet Robert Burns coined the phrase: "The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley". It happens often with project management.
Article - What is Stakeholder Analysis and Why Should You Do It? (9 KB)
- What's the nature of experience
- Gone are the days where just anybody can be a project manager. Lack of project management experience can be disastrous for organisations as recent high profile failures have demonstrated.
- Staff Development - Not just an obligation - a key success factor
- How many times have you read the term ‘Staff Development’ in a duty statement and sighed or rolled your eyes and then set about identifying the right “buzz words” to say at interview to secure you the job?
Article - Staff Development - Not just an obligation - a key success factor (31 KB)
- 9 Steps to Successful Event Management
- Event management is a union between project management and marketing. The secret to sensational events is early and detailed project planning. Planning should include 9 key elements for success.
- Lies, Statistics, and the PMO
- Here at the words-and-facts factory, we spend our days juggling statistics: either those we've generated ourselves by developing research questionnaires, or those we've sought out from other purveyors of research questionnaires. After ten years or so of this kind of activity, one becomes an extremely skeptical consumer of statistics. Like Benjamin Disraeli, who famously railed against "lies, damned lies, and statistics," the more familiar you are with all the ways that statistics can mislead, the more critical eye you cast over any use of statistical information.
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