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Oct 02
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How Will You Measure Your Life? Don’t reserve your best business thinking for your career

By Career Development, Personal, Wellness & Wellbeing, Work-Life Balance

This is an old one but still packs a punch. If you haven’t read it before then give yourself a treat. It’s a seminal article by management guru Clay Christensen. He asks 3 questions:

1.How can I be sure I will be happy in my career;

2.How can I be happy in my family life, and;

3.How can I be sure I will stay out jail.

The last one sounds light-hearted but 2 of the 32 people in his Rhodes scholar class spent time in jail. Christensen asks the reader to think about the purpose of their life, saying it’s the most important thing they will ever discover

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Oct 02
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New Managers Shouldn’t Be Afraid to Express Their Emotions

By Career Development, Leadership

In many organisations, good employees often maintain a calm, composed demeanor, which can hinder leaders trying to foster engagement and enthusiasm.

As you transition to a managerial role, embrace emotion instead of avoiding it. Before key conversations, ask yourself: What emotional takeaway do I want to impart? Whether it’s excitement, seriousness, or fun, you need to express that emotion. Ensure your words align with the feelings you want to convey, use straightforward terms that reflect the tone you aim to set.

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Oct 02
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How To Get Comfortable Taking Risks

By Business, Business Goals, Career Development, Leadership

Australian Super recently recorded a significant write-down of $1.1 billion after investing in an overseas video training company. The CIO defended this loss by emphasising the risk/return ratio, noting that good returns often come with inherent risks. While this principle is a cornerstone of business, it’s easy to overlook in a more risk-averse environment.

This Forbes offers insights on embracing risk, suggesting techniques like fear testing (considering worst-case scenarios) and dream testing (envisioning best-case scenarios). Ultimately, the greatest rewards often require a strong appetite for risk.

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Aug 22
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Career Audit: Top 5 Questions for Success

By Career Development, Personal

NFP’s often require employees to take on diverse responsibilities with a dynamic approach. To successfully transition into the non-profit sector, it’s crucial to conduct a thorough career audit, reflecting on past roles, work preferences, and ideal work environments. This self-assessment helps identify the types of roles, colleagues, leaders, and organisational cultures that align with your values. Using these insights during job searches and interviews, and partnering with a specialised recruiter, will enhance your chances of finding a fulfilling and impactful position in the non-profit sector.

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Jun 05
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Strategic Concepts That Set Top Companies Apart

By Business, Career Development, Leadership, Personal

Strategic concepts come in and out of fashion as the needs and dynamics of the marketplace change.

Research and analysis of today’s landscape identifies six key strategic concepts that set outperforming companies apart: Borrow someone’s road, partner with a third party, reveal your strategy, be good, let the competition go, and adopt small scale attacks.

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Mar 13
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4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Changing Careers

By Career Development, Personal

The article discusses the ongoing consideration of career shifts post-Great Resignation and offers four critical questions from “Reinventing You” to ponder before transitioning to a new field. These questions include understanding the motivation behind the change, testing hypotheses through small-scale experiments, assessing financial readiness for potential pay cuts, and devising fallback plans to mitigate risks. By addressing these considerations, professionals can navigate career transitions more smoothly and effectively unleash their talents in new endeavors.

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Mar 13
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How do leaders assess their own performance?

By Career Development, Leadership, Personal

The article explores CEO performance assessment through insights gleaned from a preliminary analysis of a CEO Excellence Assessment Tool encompassing over 100 CEOs.

It reveals areas where CEOs exhibit confidence as well as vulnerability, providing insights into the leadership challenges they encounter. Notably, while CEOs feel adept at managing personal effectiveness, they encounter difficulties in board management and stakeholder engagement.

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Feb 21
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People with purpose: Leading by example – and why every NFP leader can benefit from peer-to-peer mentoring

By Business, Career Development, Leadership, Personal

Carmel Molloy, CEO of the NonProfit Alliance (NPA), emphasises the critical importance of investing in the leadership capabilities of not-for-profit (NFP) leaders for fostering a socially aware Australia. Carmel’s journey from teaching to marketing agencies to the NFP sector led her to found the NPA, aiming to fill the gap in peer-to-peer programs for NFP leaders. Carmel identifies the multitude of challenges faced by NFP organisations, emphasizing the need for robust leadership, peer support networks, and continuous investment in leadership development to achieve greater social impact.

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Jan 23
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How to Improve Your Soft Skills as a Remote Worker

By Career Development, Personal, Workplace

In the age of AI, soft skills are the hidden gems of the workplace, but they can be a challenge to build when you work from home. Without daily, face-to-face interactions with colleagues, learning the nuances of how to communicate and collaborate is just plain harder.

So what are some practical steps you can take to develop soft skills when Zoom calls are your norm? The author outlines seven strategies to try. READ MORE HERE.

Jun 30
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Start Your New Leadership Role with the End in Mind

By Career Development, Leadership, Personal

To successfully step into a new role and set yourself up for long-term success, you must balance “now-forward” planning with “future-back” visioning. That is, you must start with the end in mind, envisioning what you want to accomplish during this era of your leadership and what needs to happen before for can take the next step. This mindset will empower you to make early decisions that will accelerate your transition, pave the way for long-term impact in the new role, and contribute to your continued career growth.

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