Professional Development
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Girl Geek Academy offers grants to attend US conference
First 5000 | July 13, 2018Girl Geek Academy is extending its impact into the U.S. market with a scholarship initiative aimed at increasing the number of minority groups working within the chaos engineering field.
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You are an outstanding negotiator
Filip Hron | July 8, 2018Which personality type makes the best negotiators? And what can you do to improve your skills?
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Creating a winning team through an award-winning culture
Paul Findlay | June 28, 2018A company’s culture is like a fingerprint – a truly unique identifier. It is a factor that is distinctive to every business and an attribute that breeds a winning team. While achieving an award-winning culture in your business can be a steep task, investing in it can deliver extraordinary outcomes.
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Lessons learned from investing in and operating VET colleges
Kevin Chin | June 16, 2018The hard lessons learned by a successful new training company have implications for developing better vocational training and professional development across Australia.
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Business leadership demands self-mastery
Stephen Chong | June 12, 2018The most common question in Stephen Chong’s workshops is why some business leaders and team members achieve spectacular results well beyond their initial expectations whilst others falls short.
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To improve internships and placements, embed technology in their design
Denise Jackson | June 7, 2018Work integrated learning must be carefully designed with preparation, reflection and feedback at the forefront and technology used to maximise each. It should reflect current workplace practice and prepare students to succeed in the future of work.
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Understanding the difference between management and leadership
Melinda Fell | May 27, 2018Too many people assume that managers and leaders are one and the same thing. Experience – and informed insight – suggest they are not. In this article, Melinda Fell examines some of the implications for mid-sized organisations.
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Want to succeed in business? Get an accountability partner
Anna Kucirkova | May 23, 2018Why do some business people achieve enormous amounts of success while others fail miserably? Why do some people reach their goals while others fail to conquer even the simplest milestones? One of the key factors is accountability.
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Nice work, if you can get it
Dan Woodman | May 17, 2018Internships can offer a useful bridge between education and employment for young people looking to enter a changing labour market, but how can we ensure they gain useful experience, rather than be exploited and discarded as unpaid serfs?
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The importance of aligning board, business and CEO
Stephen Chong | May 14, 2018A lack of appreciation for the importance of corporate wisdom by far too many boards is jeopardizing the profitmaking potential of companies in the new commercial era.
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All power corrupts…
Linda McSweeny | May 7, 2018Self-obsessed narcissists are all too common in management, taking credit for others’ hard work, dropping names and hogging attention. Do such people seek positions of power or can power unleash the hidden narcissist in us all?
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The art of saying ‘no’
Angela Henderson | April 22, 2018When you reach a certain level of success in business, especially these days of social media, people want to absorb your knowledge, and bounce ideas past you, but your time is valuable too.
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Hope is not a method statement
Adam O’Donnell | April 9, 2018Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke once observed that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. Adam O’Donnell explains why a strong ‘plan B’ is always required in the boardroom as well as the battlefield.
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8 TED talks for business leaders
First 5000 | April 4, 2018Looking for some inspiration? Check out these eight TED talks for business leaders covering everything from cutting edge science and technology to quirks of human habits and behaviour.
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Giving women in business the confidence to succeed
First 5000 | March 29, 2018Queensland’s female business owners will have access to a new online training resource designed to increase the confidence they need to succeed, thanks to a new Advancing Women in Business initiative.