Peopleconnexion Announcement: Congratulations Jean Kilner
After more than a decade of offering recruitment, contractors and payroll management services across Australia and the Pacific, Peopleconnexion strengthened our Learning & Development (L&D) capability.
As part of that next stage of growth, we are proud to announce Jean Kilner as our Principal Consultant ? Learning & Development.
Peopleconnexion Director Kristine Berry Jean on her new position:
?On behalf of all the directors, I would like to congratulate Jean on her new position as she prepares Peopleconnexion for our next stage of growth into the L&D arena.
Her knowledge and experience have been instrumental in the development and expansion of Peopleconnexion International, our L&D arm. Jean is an asset to our team, our clients and the organisations she makes a real impact in. We are incredibly honoured to have her on board leading this area of our organisation, and can’t wait to see what the remainder of 2018 holds for her.?
If you’ve partnered with Peopleconnexion before, you will know Jean for her consultative approach and focus on the long-term professional development of her candidates and clients. What you may not know is the journey that led to her new role.
Where it all started
After a few years of working in Papua New Guinea, the Peopleconnexion team noticed a trend.
Clients could see the potential in their new employees, but line managers were often struggling with their different expectations the workplace in PNG. On the flip side of the coin, our candidates were constantly searching for professional development opportunities to build their competency and confidence at work.
We knew something needed to change!
Peopleconnexion Director Kristine Berry met with Jean in Australia in early 2016. At the time, Jean was delivering personal mastery and team effectiveness programs to big-name clients across South Africa who faced many of the same challenges as our clients in PNG.
Their relationship extended back to their time spent together as recruiters working side-by-side in South Africa, so bringing Jean on board to deliver these tried-and-tested programs to clients in PNG was a no-brainer.
Jean joined Peopleconnexion in 2016 and began planning, strategizing and collaborating with our team to develop the L&D arm of the organisation that exists today.
This is why we were so excited when Jean successfully facilitated our first Personal Mastery & Team Effectiveness workshops in Port Moresby to organisations including NASFUND, KPMG and BAT.
We sat down with Jean to get her thoughts on L&D, the progress of our workshops so far, and where Peopleconnexion International is headed next:
On expanding Peopleconnexion International:
We aim to offer our clients support in terms of building their leadership skills within the organisation. Our aim is to help teams develop stronger muscle to work more effectively and strive towards a high-performance team structure.
We aim to help individuals become more effective in the workplace by building them around personal mastery and understanding team effectiveness.
What originally drew you towards L&D?
I’ve always had a passion for talent.
I spent about ten years in recruitment in South Africa before moving to the UK and joining the executive committee of an American-based software company. This was my first foray into the world of leading and driving change.
I saw the importance of having the right people, in the right roles, doing the right things and being supported by L&D programs with impact.
When I moved back to South Africa I joined Catalyst Consulting, the country’s leading Learning & Development company. Today, Catalyst plays a supporting role in the delivery of our programs in Papua New Guinea and Australia, providing additional capacity and L&D expertise.
From my experiences, I’ve learned that it doesn’t matter where you are in the world ? South Africa, PNG, Australia – the people problems are often the same. There are common traits great leaders and teams share regardless of their location, and it’s those skills that I am passionate about developing.
Tell us about the successes you’ve had in PNG in particular, and why that’s an area where you’ve had so much traction.
Peopleconnexion has had great relationships with organisations in PNG so far. We’ve spent four years building relationships and partnerships in PNG, and have now expanded further into the Pacific ? into Fiji and Solomon Islands. It made sense for us to align ourselves with these existing relationships. We have successfully won work to develop and design long-term programs for some key clients including the delivering of profiling tools for team effectiveness to help teams work better together.
We’ve had great success and really are able to make a difference.
What results have you seen so far?
Clients have found that people have started applying and trying new behaviours. We’ve run Personal Mastery programs and have found we receive consistently high rankings for this program. The Personal Mastery program is well-packaged ? it is practical and packed with applicable tools. They know they can take what they’ve learnt and applied it directly in the workplace.
When we hear participants make comments like ‘this workshop has changed the way I look at life?, we know we?re on the right track.
And that’s the ultimate successful outcome: people trying new behaviours, changing habits and always stepping forward in driving their own career.
To get in contact with Jean and learn more about Peopleconnexion’s L&D programs, please visit www.peopleconnexion.com/training/contact-us
Peopleconnexion International: Building competence and developing confidence