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By AIM Education and Training
While many people think creativity is a trait best suited to the art studio, it's also valuable in the office. Whether you're trying to develop a unique strategy to deal with an unforeseen contingency, or creating novel work processes to improve efficiency, creativity can add value to all manner of work.
Managing creative talent is an essential leadership skill.
By AIM Education and Training
Back in 2014, the San Francisco Giants did the unimaginable, they won the Major League Baseball World Series. While they were ranked lowly when the season started, the Giants were able to drag themselves to the final against the odds. Facing off against the American League champions Kansas City Royals, the series went down to the final game.
By AIM Education & Training
One of the key goals of a manager is to reduce conflict and facilitate collaboration and communication. Effective management training can help develop approaches to conflict that mitigate the impacts on organisational health and employee engagement.
By AIM Education and Training
The AIM Business School is proud to present the first episode of our new AIM Business School podcast series: Conversations with Thought Leaders.
By Sue-Ellen Watts
According to Google a mentor is: A person or friend who guides a less experienced person by building trust and modelling positive behaviours. An effective mentor understands that his or her role is to be dependable, engaged, authentic, and tuned into the needs of the mentee.
In the business or career world, my definition of a mentor is: Someone who is where you want to be and is willing to spend their limited and important time, sharing with you how they did it, warts and all.
By Alison Vidotto
Respect is a fundamental ingredient if we want to be successful, whether as a leader or as a business owner. If those who answer to you do not respect you, “Houston you have a problem!”
By Hamish Williams
Many organisations and industries pay lip service to developing constructive workplace cultures but the public service is frequently the first to set the benchmark when new leadership paradigms are developed.
With the recent release of the Study of Australian Leadership (SAL) by the Centre for Workplace Leadership, many organisations will be interested to benchmark themselves against the results but few will have as rapid a mandate to adopt the report’s findings as those managers and leaders within the public service.
By AIM Senior Research Fellow Dr Samantha Johnson
“Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.” David Hockney
What do you think about when you’re engaged in conversation with others?
Odd question?
Right now you’re thinking that it depends on what the conversation is about, surely?
Sometimes it does. But, is this always the case?
Think about how you think about when you are listening to someone else.
Think about what you tend to think about.
By AIM Business School Faculty, Ian Siebert
A recent headline in the Australian Financial Review grabbed my attention: “Leaders failing in key areas of management”.
It looked the wrong way around to me while also being overly negative! Surely it should have read something like “Australian managers and leaders will benefit by increasing their capabilities in leadership”?