Category: Leadership Development

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 […]

DiSC is a personal assessment tool based on the work of Dr William Marston, an American psychologist and author who, in other news, created the character Wonder Woman, and the first polygraph machine. Marston’s book “Emotions of Normal People” was published in 1928. In it Marston presented research into how a person’s will and sense […]

Too many meetings at work is a common experience. In a session with a senior client recently, we sat in front of his calendar to find a good time to plan a critical new project. I knew we’d be hard-pressed to find any available time over the next couple of weeks, but as we scrolled […]

By John Dawson FIML and Carmel McDonald FIML Office politics have a strong effect on every workplace. It seems that almost every organisation we go into is frustrated by a lack of cooperation between departments or units. Some of the classic causes are: Lack of trust Turf protection and organisational silos Competition between unit leaders […]