Category: Leadership Development

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 […]

Judy Harbison has been a veterinarian for 26 years and now has an interest in seven practices across Brisbane. She completed an MBA in 2013, but joined IML’s mentoring program to gain some guidance about the next stage of her business. Her mentor, Ashwin Hurribunce, first trained as a radiologist in South Africa and is now […]

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 […]

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 […]

Good leaders capture your attention, harness your motivation and lead you in a particular direction. They are great communicators, honest and can clearly define and share their vision. But not everyone is born with such attributes. They are skills which must be developed. As a new manager who wants to create an impact, here are […]

Australia may be experiencing a patch of weak wage growth, but you can still try to do better for yourself at work. “We have a culture in Australia that says to get a better job title and increase your take-home pay, you will more likely have to change employers,” laments Kelly Magowan, an executive coach and […]