Category: Leadership Matters

Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau tops the latest Leadership Matters list for good leadership for his outspoken support for the fight against gender inequality, while Ardent Leisure gets a thumbs down for its handling of the Dreamworld tragedy in October. Justin Trudeau The Canadian PM is a self-declared feminist. In a letter to anti-poverty activist […]

Accruing annual leave and not taking holidays isn’t just bad for an employee’s wellbeing, it’s a headache for employers, too. So what can you do to keep leave balances down? By Elizabeth Ticehurst   Australia is kind to its employees when it comes to paid holidays. While we may envy the five-week vacations enjoyed by […]

Decision-making is one of the most crucial challenges for managers. A global survey of CEOs cited by John Adair found that the ‘ability to take decisions’ was rated as the most important of 25 attributes required by senior managers. During my regular discussions with Corporate and Professional AIM Members there’s become a noticeable demand for […]

Your ability to accurately determine the skills and attributes needed to fulfil the requirements of your career progression requires research, honest self-reflection and time. If the role you want is with your current employer, your research could involve discussions with the person currently in that role, their peers, the person they report to, HR and anyone […]

Interested in global leadership? Here are the books and articles you should add to your reading list this month. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built By Duncan Clark (HarperCollins, $29.99) Alibaba is sometimes compared to Amazon but it is a bit different: it operates as a portal for retailers rather than a seller itself. In the […]

The world in which most of us lead and manage is increasingly less robust and more unstable. Technology is changing faster than ever, bringing both threats and massive opportunities. Political and social forces are causing major changes, with migration, population pressures, multiculturalism, racial tension and the rising global gap between haves and have-nots impacting labour […]

On the job I’m one of two directors of Evolve. I’m responsible for the operations of the hotel – I’m the face of it. We have Tolarno Hotel in St Kilda and the aim is that within about two to three years we will have five properties within greater Melbourne. We formed the company early […]

Peter Baines worked in the disaster victim identification team following the Boxing Day tsunami in 2004. Today he is a leadership consultant and runs a charity, Hands Across the Water. By Nicola Heath When Peter Baines switched on the television late on Boxing Day in 2004, with news of the immense devastation caused by a […]

Gender equality campaigner Hannah Wandel AIMe believes women are naturals when it comes to multitasking. Her own career may just prove her point. Wandel balances her full-time job as Social Policy Adviser at the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet in Canberra with her role as chief executive of the not-for-profit organisation she founded two years […]