Dr Harry Zaphir

Dr Harry Zaphir is a professional company director, speaker and author who has over 20 years experience in building businesses, both his own and other peoples', by attracting, managing and retaining talented individuals, or as he calls them ‘Bright Young Things.’

He shares his knowledge, experiences and observations with a wide group of audiences and in a variety of settings:
• Keynote addresses to conferences
• Workshops and breakout sessions within a conference setting
• Lunchtime or other workplace workshops
• Company strategic planning "off-site" conferences
• Industry based breakfast/lunch/dinner presentations
Harry Zaphir became a part time company director in 1984. Following a successful career in both general and IT management, he started his own business in 1988 and was the driving force behind its development through the recruitment and retention of talented and committed staff. This business grew over the next 20 years to the point where an executive management team was brought in to run the business day-to-day leaving Harry and the other directors in a non-executive, strategic role.
During that period Harry himself was recruited as a director of Queenslanders Credit Union Ltd, and he currently serves on that board as Deputy Chairman.
A Graduate of the University of Queensland, Harry also undertook post-graduate studies in both IT management and business management, finishing up with a PhD in the latter. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Fellow of the Australasian Mutuals Institute and Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management.
Dr Harry Zaphir knows talent – how to spot it, employ it, and manage it!

Speaker Topics Include:

So, who are the Bright Young Things?
How to spot a Bright Young Thing
How BYTs vary from generation to generation
What behaviours can you exhibit/expect?
How influence works both ways
The environment that creates and sustains talent

What format and audience is best suited for this topic? This topic can be tailored for either a keynote (45-60mins), workshop (half-day) or breakfast/lunch/dinner meeting (30-45mins). Optimal audience for this topic is mid-level management up, but can be tailored if necessary to include people undertaking their first supervisory role. As part of the material preparation, the topic will be tailored for the type of business audience: whether the participants are mainly in larger organisation, or SMEs. It will also take in to account the business model – listed company, private, not-for-profit, government owned corporation etc.
Who benefits from this?
Anyone who has to manage, supervise, support, train or induct staff.
What results can you expect?
A better understanding from your management team and supervisors in dealing with the latest crop of recruits, leading to better and more sustainable productivity, harmony and consequently profitability.

Workshop and Breakout Topics
Workshop and conference breakout topics cover a range of issues to deal with both the strategic and day-to-day management issues in and around Bright Young Things. Where the word “workshop” is used, the phrase “break out session” can be substituted.

Workshop topics include:
The cult and culture of BYTs
What influences and behaviours can be observed?
What are their personal characteristics?
How is the digital generation different?
Myths and realities
Values and BYTs
What sort of values do they hold as important?
How to deal with promises made and broken
How do you/they feel about authority
Expectations, Politics and BYTs
How do you/they feel about politics – office and otherwise?
Your authority and it’s relationship to the Org. Chart
What do you/they expect and how are these expectations managed?
Will what matters today matter tomorrow?
Communications and Social Networks
How good are you at communicating with your staff?
How do their social networks vary from yours?
Does technology depersonalise communication?
What do they want in the way of communication? What do you?