Category: Manage and lead the business

Claims of workplace bullying are a disturbingly familiar story. An employee has a performance problem and their manager decides to do something to fix it. The manager gives the employee some critical feedback, which the recipient feels is unwarranted. The employee makes a careless mistake and the manager berates them in the lunch room. Finally, […]

Having a quota for women and minorities isn’t inclusion if you treat them as outsiders. By Jane Caro Jane Caro is an advocate of inclusion. Many years ago I appeared on a TV panel show. There were usually four men and a chick on the panel – sometimes me, sometimes someone else. We used to […]

Fitness Industry high flyer Elaine Jobson says setting a strategy means finding a vision that ignites your entire team and rallies them to your case. But first, take the time to listen   Elaine Jobson FAIM is a fitness industry veteran who, over the past 23 years, has worked for a number of large fitness […]

The work landscape of the fourth industrial revolution, a term coined by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, looks very different to the one we grew up with in the 20th century. Industry 4.0 is characterised by universal connectivity, technological breakthroughs and fast-paced disruption that are facilitating a widespread shift […]

The open-plan office: collaborative and egalitarian or noisy and unproductive? Whatever your view, it’s a layout many Australian workers are familiar with. The open-plan office developed in the 1950s in post-war Germany and then swept across the corporate world. Its two perceived benefits are cost and increased collaboration. There is no doubt that, on paper, […]