Category: Leadership Development

When Nicolle Burt CMgr MIML took her first steps into her career, she could hardly have imagined where she would end up almost four decades later. Now working as a consultant to the public service, Nicolle shares her insights on developing and utilising a broad range of skills across your career. 

While an increased level of turnover might be expected after a couple of years of COVID disruptions and restrictions, employers would do well to seek greater insight into the major reasons people are seeking new horizons.

When you step into a management role, you often act by default. It is assumed that when you move from a ‘doing’ role to a ‘managing’ role, you will know what you need to do.

When leaders think about motivating their team, safety isn't something that usually tops the list of considerations, yet it plays a crucial role.

By Jane Caro, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster Are you quick to judge? You may be projecting your own shortcoming on to others. Try a dose of self-awareness. I THINK IT was US comedian Sarah Silverman who pointed it out first: President Donald Trump’s tweets criticising others for failings and wrong-doings are not actually accusations but […]

By Duncan Fish, Executive Coach & Interpersonal Skills Expert at The Engaging Executive. The term Mentoring is quite popular, but what does it mean to you? In my opinion, the role of a Mentor is to espouse wisdom from a position of experience. The term ‘Mentor’ is derived from the story of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus, King of Ithaca, had […]

Interested in global leadership? Here are the books and articles you should add to your reading list this month. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built By Duncan Clark (HarperCollins, $29.99) Alibaba is sometimes compared to Amazon but it is a bit different: it operates as a portal for retailers rather than a seller itself. In the […]

Your ability to accurately determine the skills and attributes needed to fulfil the requirements of your career progression requires research, honest self-reflection and time. If the role you want is with your current employer, your research could involve discussions with the person currently in that role, their peers, the person they report to, HR and anyone […]

Emerging Leader of the Year Paul Mead applies the leadership training he received in the military to his current role in sports consultancy. A former member of New Zealand’s armed forces, Paul Mead runs a sports consultancy in Darwin. He provides an insight to the sport sector around developing commercial opportunities for sport organisations. […]