Announcements

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

"Use the natural talent of your people"

Geoff Appleton

Outcomes from Geoff's presentation:

-Understand how to pick the best from your short list of candidates.
-Get the best out of your team by using each person more effectively.
-Recognise the time to move people out of your business

Geoff Appleton

Working for large corporations, primarily in the travel and tourism industry, has given Geoff a real insight to how individuals respond to leadership styles, both in small and large teams. His work with major global airlines has seen him living in more than 20 countries providing a thorough cross cultural background, often leading teams of locally employed managers.

An appointment to oversee a cabin crew workforce of several thousand people provided a peak experience and understanding of delegation, people involvement and industrial relations negotiations, having also been involved in collective bargaining through the Betriebsrat system in Germany.

Geoff is a planner and strategist at heart but has had many operational roles including day to day management at major airports. This has led to more General Management roles including the control of one of the largest national corporate travel agencies, which experienced a significant financial turnaround during his leadership of the small management team there.

His sales and marketing activities have brought him close to advertising agencies, hotels and National Tourism Organisations, latterly becoming involved directly in the business of Outdoor Advertising.

More recently, Geoff was appointed by a major financial institution to manage their key national and global relationships in Sydney. This brought him alongside corporate executives in a variety of market segments, allowing an opportunity to study similarities and differences in the way business was being conducted.

During the last 7 years he has been running a small business helping leaders get the best from themselves and from the people that they lead.  He is the Joint Founder and Managing Partner of Polonious Resources, a Human Resource Consultancy.

 

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