Category: Leadership Development

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 […]

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 […]

Companies are surprisingly similar in what they claim to be their values, culture and execution, but there is a lot more variation in what actually happens at the coalface. Leaders have a crucial role in determining how well their organisations ‘walk the talk’ through their own conduct and the way they respond to others. Most […]

When Duncan Barker IML was in the early days of launching his own real estate business, Office Discovery, he was grateful to have his mentor, Southern Cross Coaching and Development CEO Simon Smith FIML, by his side. Both work in Sydney. Why did you join FILM mentor program? DB: I was referred by a friend […]

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 […]

If your ultimate career goal is a leadership role like a CEO spot and/or a position on the company board, you had better get busy. No-one gets to the top of their game by chance. It requires hard work, a lot of passion, good strategic planning, a valuable network of contacts and a willingness to […]

By Susan Muldowney, Photography by Richard Whitfield Leadership Matters sat down with Chintan Gandhi, to find out the secret to his success as a young leader. 1. On the job I head up a team of account managers and marketing executives. In the past two years we’ve acquired three companies and I played a key role […]

Failure rates for corporate change are high. Some statistics suggest they are as high as 70 per cent. What are the mistakes that too many change leaders continue to make? 1. Misdiagnosing scope Who will be affected, how much it will cost, how long it will take and how radical does a change need to […]