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Why women should love themselves
Shivani Gupta | February 14, 2013
Do you love yourself enough to ask for that pay rise? Shivani Gupta shares why it’s important to put yourself first in business.
In the 10 years I have been delivering workshops for women it is clear that the key thing most women are looking for in their busy life is balance. -
UTS launches Business Internship Program
Alice Watkins | February 12, 2013
Do you need a helping hand with elements of your business? Would you like to give back to your field and the support the country’s brightest students? Alice Watkins outlines the latest internship program from the University of Technology, Sydney.
This semester UTS is formally launching its new Business Internship Program. This extends the established range of internship programs at UTS. The new program presents an opportunity for medium enterprises to engage with keen aspiring business professionals and to tackle some useful projects in the workplace. -
Feeling stressed? Start delegating!
Jeremy Liddle | February 6, 2013
It’s impossible to oversee every part of your business. Jeremy Liddle explains how to make delegation work and release the stress of micro management.
Sitting in an office thinking about sales will not generate revenue. You have to get up and get moving! So get out on the road and kick up a storm. Without taking action you are doomed to a fate of inaction and flat or declining revenue. The good news is that YOU don’t have to be the one that increases sales all the time!
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Two vital business uses for social media
Nathan Kwok | February 6, 2013Are you utilising social media in the most effective way? Nathan Kwok says it’s time to put your unique stamp on twitter, facebook and LinkedIn and showcase your positive work culture.
It’s no secret that social media has really changed the game for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) looking to connect with their customers, and even to inspire their employees. However for most SMEs, using social media effectively can be a challenge. And even for seasoned users, there are always new and interesting ways to use social media to promote and manage businesses.
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Taxi fares on the way down
Jost Stollmann | January 29, 2013
Catching a taxi is a regular part of day to day life for business people and a major expense for companies. Jost Stollmann from Tyro Payments explains how it could get a whole lot cheaper in the future.
Tyro Payments is the only independent EFTPOS provider in Australia competing “heads-on” with the big bank oligopoly. For us momentum is building to have a crack at one of Australia’s longest standing monopolies, Cabcharge, a company surcharging Australian cab users with 10 per cent since 36 years when paying their cab fare with a card. -
OMG! Back to work and the stuff that made me want a holiday!
Leanne Faraday-Brash | January 29, 2013
Despite the start of a new year it’s easy to get back into the old habits and circumstances which perplexed us in 2012. Leanne Faraday-Brash shares how to break the shackles and take a new approach.
Last year wasn’t an easy year for many people for a host of reasons. Fortunately, as human beings we have a well-developed ability to forget some of the yucky stuff. If we didn’t and every mother dwelt on her labour experience, every child would probably be an only child!
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The frustration with our politicians continues
Ray Levin | December 12, 2012First 5000 member Ray Levin looks at how there is a lack of understanding from our politicans in regard to what is best for the economy.
Today consulting engineers are putting off young engineers. Mining companies are putting off engineers from their design departments.
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New Act moves Gender Equality into 21st century
Helen Conway | December 5, 2012Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Helen Conway outlines the new Act and what it will do for gender equality in Australian workplaces.
Can women have it all? The new Workplace Gender Equality Act places a different question centre stage. Can women – and men – ‘’have it all”? Can the Australian economy ‘’have it all’’, where it fully reaps the benefits of its educated workforce? Can employers ‘’have it all’’, and meet the pent-up demand of the modern workforce for flexible work and meaningful careers which are compatible with caring responsibilities?
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Workplace defibrillator guidelines to save lives
Helen Hull | December 4, 2012
In a bid to improve safety in all Australian workplaces and counter the incidence of cardiac arrest, new guidelines for the proper deployment and use of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) have been unveiled by The Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Financial Services and Superannuation, The Hon. Bill Shorten MP.
The establishment of the AED Deployment Register (AEDDR), a new national policy authority and regulatory body, was also announced at an official launch in Canberra on 29 November. -
Telework: breaking down geographic barriers and strengthening real-world communities
Roger Dawkins | November 27, 2012
Following the success of the first annual national Telework Week, Roger Dawkins highlights how flexible working hours benefit not only the worker but their employer too.
Alan Woodward, executive director of the Lifeline Foundation, is a flexible worker. Flexible work, or telework, affords him the usual advantages: he doesn’t have to live in close proximity to work (so he lives on coastal NSW); flexible work’s more convenient because he travels a lot; and, if he chooses, Alan can adjust his working hours to fit in daytime family activities. But in addition to those benefits of working in a flexible environment, flexible work hugely benefits the real-world community where Alan lives. -
Toxic Workplaces: The incompetent to the incomprehensible, the dysfunctional to the dastardly
Leanne Faraday-Brash | November 21, 2012
Organisational psychologist and executive coach with over twenty years of experience, Leanne Faraday-Brash shares high level strategies and practical tips for CEOs and change leaders in her new book Vulture Cultures.
I think we could agree most workplaces understand the importance of engagement and its link to productivity, organisational health and profit. Evidence is consistently demonstrating that the quality of leadership and specifically leaders’ emotional intelligence are instrumental in fostering or eroding engagement. -
How medium enterprises can compete against corporates for graduates
Alice Watkins | November 19, 2012Internships are often associated with large companies and big corporates. Alice Watkins from UTS shares how as a mid sized business, you too can tap into these valuable resources.
As the costs for hiring experienced employees escalates, it makes sense for medium enterprises to consider growing their own staff as a cost effective element in their recruitment and long term growth strategies.
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Why I care about innovation
Paul Cheever | November 13, 2012Investment in innovation has several rewards, including the capacity to help and improve lives. But Paul Cheever reluctantly admits it is the economic benefits that fire his obsession with innovation.
About a dozen years ago, I happened to become responsible for advising a large superannuation fund on its private equity investments, including its initial venture capital investments.
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Why Australia can lead the world in making products and services better
Tom Voirol | November 6, 2012User focused design has helped with the success of products like the iPhone. Tom Voirol explains how, by implementing this approach, Australian organisations and users can reap the significant benefits.
You may not have heard the term, but user experience design (or UX) is getting increased traction in developing services and products that are more useful, usable and even desirable. It is the practice of putting the users and their needs, wants and preferences at the centre of the design process.
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Embracing the Telework revolution
Tim Fawcett | October 30, 2012As the momentum builds for Australia’s National Telework Week from 12-16 November 2012, Tim Fawcett discusses the revolutionary shift that is taking off in the way we are working now and will be in the future.
The word ‘revolution’ gets used a lot in the information and technology sector – sometimes too often. But in the context of a shifting global economic environment, massive uptake of mobile devices by consumers and the rapidly emerging demands of workers to use their own device of choice as part of their workday routine, something revolutionary IS happening.
