Category: New In Leadership

Winners were announced in six categories at the 2016 among IML Leadership Excellence Awards ceremony in Brisbane on October 19. By Jacqueline Blondell Leaders from right across the country were celebrated at IML’s 27th annual Leadership Excellence Awards (ALEAs) national final, held in Brisbane on 19 October. David Pich, IML chief executive and master of […]

Blockchain technology started life as the key technical innovation of Bitcoin and now it may transform the financial services sector and beyond. What is blockchain? Blockchain technology provides indisputable proof of transactions. It’s like a network of databases that act as a shared digital ledger. Each transaction is recorded as a “block”. With new transactions, […]

Mental health conditions are more common than many people think. Depression affects one in six, and anxiety one in four, Australians in their lifetime, so if you haven’t experienced mental illness at some point in your life, it’s guaranteed that someone you know has. A 2014 PwC report found that mental health conditions cost Australian […]

Work-life balance is apparently getting worse in Australia, and we work longer hours than ever before. According to research conducted by The Australia Institute, Australians now work millions of hours of unpaid overtime annually, an average of 5.94 hours per week for each full-time worker. That adds up to more than $128 billion worth in […]

The Internet is constantly evolving, offering new opportunities and at times disrupting the economy. But it also poses infinite opportunities to faff about and lose vast amounts of time and money. This guide might help you harness what’s good and avoid some of the potential traps. 1. Choose a browser with more functions Today’s user […]

The premise: 55,000 professionals from 90 countries, surveyed by the Korn Ferry Hay Group between 2011 and 2015, think that women have better emotional and social skills than men. These skills are essential for modern managers, so are women a better leadership bet than men in suits?     THE BUSINESS COACH Avril Henry AFAIM […]

Millennials are in demand with their skill set a popular choice for employers on a global scale. A generation motivated by passion more than money, their affordability, energy and eagerness to please makes them attractive to companies, reports global talent firm Mercer. Add in being digital savvy, having an entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to […]

In the past couple of months, I’ve been privileged to interview a number of high-profile people about different aspects of global leadership. Some of these interviews took me to London, which I love visiting, but hated living there. (I couldn’t stand the long, dark months from about October to May.) But seeing London as a tourist is […]

Technological innovation is accelerating, and putting pressure on businesses to adapt faster, embrace the new, shed the old, disrupt or be disrupted … Blink. Did you miss something? In an exponentially interconnected world, the revolution is constant and it’s nigh on impossible to measure the pace or scope of change. No Ordinary Disruption, the recent book by McKinsey Global Institute’s Richard Dobbs, James […]