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Design thinking has been slow to gain traction among Australia's HR departments, but there are some world-class pockets of success here, and 2018 could be the year it takes off, a management consultant says.

Some personality types are more likely than others to drive innovation at work, but tenure plays an important role as well, research has found.

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Employees tend to receive negative feedback in one of two ways, but it's possible for managers to get a third, more constructive type of response through a different approach, a leading trainer says.

Shifting its performance management focus from a backwards look at what employees have achieved, to discussing their future goals, is helping to "ignite" performance at Accenture, its HR managing director says.

Efforts to increase cross-company collaboration at Colliers International have driven a "fundamental mindset change" resulting in higher-quality productivity and efficiency, the company's head of performance says.

Employers are increasingly hiring 'innovation leaders' to help steer businesses into the digital future and commercialise innovation.

Many employers still communicate their key messages to employees via "cascading" messages from the top down, but a far more effective approach crosses professional and structural boundaries, an expert says.

An organisation that increased its net profit by 500 per cent within 12 months says of all the culture-change strategies it implemented, the single most important one was also the simplest.

HR has an important role to play in communicating sponsorship regime changes to affected workers, some of whose residency dreams have been "shattered", experts say.