By Scott Howe – April 2016 “When you command you ought to know each man in that command better than his own mother does. You must know which man responds to encouragement, which to reasoning, and which needs a good kick in the pants. Know your men.” – Field Marshal Sir William Slim A…
By: Leisa Bulow – October 2015 Congratulations! The powers that be have recognised how good you are at your job, and have promoted you above your teammates. Well done! Of course, everyone is super happy for you, and they all know how much you deserve it, and none of them are upset that they didn’t get…
By: Judith Kors – August 2015 There’s something of a paradox going on in the world of Frontline Managers. Basically, at a time when over 90% of a group of more than 600 executives from around the world said in a ‘Harvard Business Review Analytical Services’ study that they felt that a lack of adequate leadership…
Building on our previous article ‘5 Simple Ways You Can Support Your Frontline Managers’, today’s article takes us a step before that and looks at ways we can assist Frontline Managers actually make that difficult transition from a team member to a team leader… By: Daniel McCorry – July 2015 Whilst a promotion from being…
By: Judith Kors – July 2015 As many in the Learning and Development/RTO space would be aware, last year saw a long overdue overhauling of the ever-popular Diploma of Project Management with, among other things, a change from being a nine unit qualification to a twelve. The latest qualification to get such an overhaul is…
By: Daniel Turner – July 2015 “Why would I need a Diploma of Leadership & Management when I already have a degree?” is a question all-too-often posed to Learning and Development Managers in their ongoing quest to help create their organisation’s future leaders, especially (although not exclusively) in organisations that employ a large number of…
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