Category: Manage and lead others

    The problem: ‘I’m a new boss who has discovered that morale and productivity are low. What’s the best way to raise standards?’   Peter says: It’s easy to become overwhelmed, lost and bewildered as a young first-time manager taking over a dysfunctional team with a very negative culture. The situation can be magnified […]

Written by Tony Burns FIML, CEO of HPA Incorporated “Helping People Achieve” At a young age my parents instilled in me the mantra that giving back is the best reward in life. Taking their advice, I have dedicated my time to making life easier for others, and as the Chief Executive Officer of HPA – Helping […]

Stephanie McConachy MIML has very strong ideas on what makes a great leader and she plans to practice what she preaches. By Carolyn Boyd Pounding the pavement training for half-marathons, Stephanie McConachy has a ritual. She arranges a three-stage music playlist in advance. “It’s all about the race strategy; you can’t go too fast too soon,” she explains. McConachy […]

By Andrew Messer AFIML, Manager of the Application Services Unit at the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA) Every leader wants, or should want, an engaged team of people. Much has been written about how employee engagement is the key to customer engagement, because engaged employees care about their customers. But engagement is not a switch […]

  Creating a resilient corporate culture takes time and effort, but you won’t regret it.   By Stuart Taylor, CEO Springfox   Stress. We all experience it. We all talk about it. Even seeing the word in print stirs at least a little discomfort in most. Removing stress from the workplace sounds like a great […]

Great leaders are workhorses, not show horses By Sam Bell FIML The Institute of Managers and Leaders General Manager Corporate Services and Research In June ‘the suspended schoolboy turned disruptive CEO’ was finally removed from his post at CPA Australia. Alex Malley left the membership-based accounting body with a payout of $4.9 million of members’ […]

By Duncan Fish, Executive Coach & Interpersonal Skills Expert at The Engaging Executive. The term Mentoring is quite popular, but what does it mean to you? In my opinion, the role of a Mentor is to espouse wisdom from a position of experience. The term ‘Mentor’ is derived from the story of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus, King of Ithaca, had […]

What makes Shayne Elliott and his trusted team tick? The ANZ boss tells all Self-acknowledged introvert Shayne Elliott seems one of the least likely big-bank chiefs, but his career has followed a path that is familiar to his fellow bankers. The ANZ CEO is a bank ‘lifer’, joining Citibank New Zealand as a management trainee […]

In the Institute of Leaders and Managers new book, Leadership Matters, Transparency International boss Cobus de Swardt explains why he’s just as passionate now about combatting corruption as he was fighting the scourge of apartheid in the 1980s. Transparency International is a global movement that brings together companies, governments and business to fight corruption […]