Category: Leadership Development

Across the globe, people recently celebrated International Women’s Day on or around March 8. IML hosted almost 2,000 attendees and engaged 25 speakers across five events in four days for our International Women’s Day Great Debate. IML has been a proud supporter of International Women’s Day in Brisbane for the past 19 years and we successfully […]

You don’t have to be the former CEO of Volkswagen to know how devastating being caught doing the wrong thing can be for your business. Doing the right thing, being ethical, isn’t just about not getting caught and having to pay the price. Research in Australia and internationally suggests that ethical businesses are more attractive to […]

“When I park the car at the factory, there’s a piece of gaffer tape they’ve put on the floor, I’ve got to walk from the gaffer tape all the way through to my office without talking to anyone at all. Apparently I keep interfering.” That’s one approach an Australian family business has recently resorted to, […]

Was Steve Jobs a micro or a macro manager? How about Richard Branson, Warren Buffett and Martha Stewart? Find out the management style of these celebrity business leaders. BY CAROLYN BOYD     FAMOUS MACRO MANAGERS   WARREN BUFFETT Buffett is known for his laissez-faire management style. This macro approach works well because he buys […]

When Melitta Hardenberg launched her own consulting business, Get Fit and Focused, which specialises in employee wellbeing programs, her mentor, Richard Keeves, founder of Smarter Web Strategies and a fellow West Australian, helped her to avoid a disaster or two. They began meeting regularly last year while Hardenberg found her feet with the business. Here’s what […]

When Kimberley Britt, now a stakeholder relationship manager with CPA Australia in Canberra, joined IML’s Mentor Program, she was surprised at the professionalism of her mentee, Lauren Stokoe, a graduate recruit in Deloitte’s risk management team. Lauren was equally surprised by Kimberley’s readiness to guide her along her career path – and willingness to share […]

Macro and micro managers are generally maligned. In extreme cases the former give staff little support while the latter sit constantly on their shoulder, but both types of manager have great attributes. What is micro management? A micro manager asks questions around deadlines, involves the team in the project’s progress and encourages feedback. What is […]

Stretch targets are one way companies can start to even out gender imbalance in business, but they must be backed up with practical workplace changes. BY SUSAN MULDOWNEY WHAT IS A STRETCH TARGET? More ambitious than targets and less restrictive than quotas, stretch targets are about pushing the boundaries of what may be possible. They allow […]

Ian Mathieson FAIM, Managing Director at Mathieson Management, mentored Dr Sashi Sivathasan FAIM, the Deputy Director at the Faculty of Engineering, Science, Architecture and Industry at TAFE Queensland in AIM’s mentoring program. The pair discuss the benefits of their mentor-mentee relationship. Tell us a little bit about your job and background… Sashi Sivathasan: I completed […]