Category: Leadership Development

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. […]

Every year thousands of businesses interact with customers and suppliers internationally on the platform of trade missions: international trips organised by business people and government representatives to discuss business issues and facilitate trade. Trade missions may be led by federal, state or regional representatives. They may be organised by industry associations or by specialist agencies […]

Mental health in the workplace is one of the most challenging issues leaders and managers face.. Overlooked for years, it is now widely acknowledged that mental illness can have a huge impact on productivity, to the tune of $10 billion a year. In the lead-up Mental Health Week 2016, Leadership Matters quizzed Nick Arvanitis, Head […]

Dr Christopher Clarke AFAIM, manager of corporate safety at Melbourne Water, was inspired to push his career envelope by mentor Ron Skaff FAIM, an organisational change practitioner and director at Forma & Associates. They began meeting in Melbourne at the beginning of the year. Why did you join AIM’s mentor program? Christopher Clarke: I joined […]

When Gartner Research compared the career progress of 1,000 or so employees at Sun Microsystems who had taken part in a mentoring program with those who had not, it uncovered some interesting results. About 25 per cent of the employees involved in a mentoring program had advanced a salary grade over the five-year period of the study, […]

Most people in job interviews spend way too much time on logic. Their preparation and technique relies on stating all the facts: “I’m the right person for the job because I’ve worked in a similar role … Have 20-plus years’ experience … Just love sales!” Know what the end result is? You come across as […]

Want to be a ‘super networker’? First you need a great list of contacts. Here are five simple steps to establishing a strong network. I never ride in a taxi or Uber without asking the driver who they are voting for, where they shop and why, and their opinion on issues. Venture outside your postcode. Holly […]

On emotional intelligence Models and Measures of Emotional Intelligence. Dr Benjamin Palmer. (Genos International) The dark side of emotional intelligence. (The Atlantic) Dr Ben Palmer talks about Emotional Intelligence. (Youtube) Why Leaders lack emotional intelligence. (Inc.com) Emotional intelligence apps MEIT (mobile emotional intelligence test) MEIT performs an emotional intelligence test, evaluating how good we are at perceiving how […]

Daniel Goleman, Author, Emotional Intelligence You have a job to do, a team to lead. How you go about it, and how you manage your colleagues as you do, depends not only on how you feel, but how aware you are of your own state of mind, and of what’s going on for those around […]