Category: Manage myself

Essential to the toolbox of any effective leader is communication. It’s the key to achieving buy-in, reassuring employees during difficult times and engaging people with your message. Best-selling author and international speaker on business storytelling, Gabrielle Dolan, shares her thoughts on how authentic communication can help you create real engagement. “I understand.” A short but […]

Leadership is a transformative process – once you’ve become a people manager your thinking around leadership changes. As you progress every day, many factors influence how you learn, and suddenly that is no longer an activity reserved only for the classroom. Not surprisingly, the best way to learn could be through your peers.   The […]

Have you ever noticed that the difference between the words ‘leader’ and ‘learner’ are merely two letters? Perhaps it’s because the best leaders are ones who constantly seek to learn and encourage the same of others. We unpack why the learning leader is the best type in today’s modern business world. Organisations know that good […]

By Lisa Calautti   While chief executives and their C-suite colleagues often hit the headlines in the business media, the vast majority of managers do not actually operate at that high-profile level. Most are ‘middle managers’ who sit between senior management and the wider workforce. This silent majority can sometimes struggle to make their voices […]

By Lisa Calautti   Sport, community and professional life have always been intrinsically linked for Canberra-based Dixon Advisory associate director Genevieve Bond AFIML. As the youngest of five children who all loved sport, some of Bond’s earliest memories were watching her siblings from the sidelines, inspiring her to have a go at most sports from […]

Gone are the days when careers meant moving straight up a ladder. These days, career paths have become more like a lattice – you might take steps upwards, sideways or even downwards. That’s what makes career planning a crucial step in managing your learning and development. Regardless of where you are in your career it’s […]

By Lachlan Colquhoun   While working toward climbing Mount Everest, Belinda-Jane Dolan CMgr FIML is using the same tenacity, abilities, and framework she employs in her mountaineering to help clients reach their own business and personal summits. Dolan is the founder and Chief Executive of the Clariti Group, a business advisory and training company based […]

Most of us appreciate how artificial intelligence can simplify tasks. It’s a satisfying feeling when your phone suggests a great restaurant while you’re travelling in a foreign city. Meals are of course one thing, but when it comes to crucial choices, such as unbiased recruiting, can AI be just as reliable? A key issue for […]

By Emma Mulholland   Many of us don’t realise that, as we go about our days, we leave long data trails behind us. When we use our smartphone, for example, not only is our location and interlocutor recorded, even the way we hold the headset is. Is that a bad thing? It can be, says […]