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From Firefighting to Innovating: 4 Strategies to Carve Out Space for Creativity

  Do you ever feel like your workday is a hamster wheel on steroids, spinning faster than your brain can keep up? Well, you’re not alone (if it’s any consolation?!). Inventium’s 2024 Future of Work research paints a vivid picture: employees feel like they’re on a never-ending treadmill, constantly…

Zoe Aitken • 29 August 2024

COORDINARE’s Four-Day Week Success: 3 Powerful Lessons You Need to Know

What does it take to successfully implement a Four-Day Week (4DW)? It’s a question many leaders are asking as they explore new ways of working. At Inventium, we’ve seen first-hand what it takes to make the 4DW a reality through our work with COORDINARE, a primary health network located in…

Charlotte Rush • 29 August 2024

Everything I thought I knew about Work was Wrong: My Eye-Opening CEO Journey

Starting a new role is always filled with equal parts excitement and trepidation. There are so many questions to ask, information to take in, team members to meet, and systems to learn.   Through my research, while interviewing for the role, I knew that the team were…

Tina McIntosh • 1 August 2024

Productivity Paradox: When Hybrid Work Hurts the Bottom Line

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work models promised to revolutionise the way we work—but for many companies, the reality has been far from the ideal. As businesses grapple with the new normal, it’s becoming clear that not all hybrid work arrangements are created equal.

Dr Amantha Imber • 28 June 2024

Future of Work Whitepaper

Employees and leaders are the heart and soul of every organisation. They will influence customers, business growth and achievement towards a compelling mission. Their level of impact cannot be taken for granted – engaged employees are 14% more productive (that’s equivalent to 86 extra minutes each day!) and absenteeism reduces…

Charlotte Rush • 20 May 2024

How Inventium designs its team offsites. A behind-the-scenes look.

The last few months of 2023 were rocky for my team at Inventium. We had numerous team changes (including our wonderful CEO Mish Le Poidevin leaving after a decade with Inventium), we were navigating a tough economic environment, and we had restructured ourselves (self-inflicted, but still challenging).

Amantha Imber • 26 February 2024

Signs Your Company Isn’t Ready for a Four-Day Work Week

Medibank is the latest (and one of the largest) organisation to commit to a four-day week trial. With each organisation that puts their hand up to experiment with this new way of work, I give a little cheer…

Charlotte Rush • 1 February 2024

4 Lessons to Elevate Teams from Meh to Marvellous

It is bittersweet to be writing my first and final contribution to ‘Rise and Thrive’ as my Inventium journey comes to an end this calendar year. It has felt like a lifetime – filled with fond memories, incredible people and countless learnings. I’ve managed to do literally every…

Michelle Le Poidevin • 6 December 2023

Spotlight on Disruptive Innovation at SA Water

When we think disruptive innovation, we often think about start-ups sticking close to customers and taking over from their much larger competitors. Nimble, adaptable, lean, hedge fund investors, all spring to mind. What doesn’t come to mind, is government organisations. The world of disruption has often talked about how disruption…

Sasha D'Arcy • 28 November 2023