Posted on 30 May 2010. Tags: Management and Leadership
Women are casually recognised as the smarter, emotionally intelligent gender. The Harvard Business Review had Dr. Cleve Stevens, a transformational leadership consultant to multiple Fortune 500 companies wrote an article on what the deep needs of an employee are from their leaders, beyond recognition, guidance, feedback etc. They are the need to love and be […]
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Posted on 17 May 2010. Tags: Communication Skills, Management and Leadership
We’re constantly on email, both at our desks and whenever we’re on our phone. Everyone is blogging, texting, tweeting, broadcasting, link sharing and status updating these days. Does this level of constant communication and reach-ability improve our ability to lead our teams, to inspire our friends and to ensure that the work we’re responsible for […]
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Posted on 06 May 2010. Tags: Communication Skills, Management and Leadership
Managing big teams is a challenge. Especially when they’re in different states, different countries or different companies altogether. We’ve found a blog that is a three-minute brush up on the necessary communications skills. Nick Krym is an outsourcing guru recently interviewed by oDesk about how to manage outsourcing communication. He’s had over fifteen years experience managing offshore […]
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Posted on 06 May 2010. Tags: Ascend Development Days, Career Management, Communication Skills, Courses and Conferences, Health Happiness and Wellbeing, Looking After Yourself, Management and Leadership, Networking
The theme of the May Ascend days is “rethink your approach”. And we mean all the angles of your approach. We’ve organised a great line up of speakers to help you master multiple aspects of your approach and want to introduce you to them now to get you ready! If you haven’t registered yet there are still a […]
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Posted on 14 April 2010. Tags: Career Management, Courses and Conferences, Good Guys, Management and Leadership, Mentoring, The Glass Ceiling
Then you might be interested in the C-Suite Program launched by the Business Council of Australia last week. The BCA is a collection of CEOs of Australia’s top 100 or so companies and the C-Suite Program will match CEOs involved in the pilot with one senior woman from another BCA member company identified as having the potential […]
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Posted on 02 February 2010. Tags: Management and Leadership
Karen Schmidt is one of our fabulous guest speakers at the Ascend leadership development days for senior women in Brisbane on 17 February and has a raft of experience when it comes to growing engaging leaders. According to Karen, the key to unlocking the discretionary effort that lies within your employees is simple: give them […]
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