With the incidence of mental health issues increasing across the workforce, it is beholden upon us to derive more flexible and effective workplace mental health management strategies.

The Rand Corporation has presented compelling research to quantify the challenges to improve the retention rate of women in the workforce and suggested strategies both at strategic unit levels.

Managers must lead by example in values-based organisations: Be proactive in identifying, addressing and developing strategies to avoid the collateral damage of toxic behaviours.

This article is about the application of the Lean production model to government services, in terms of delivering value, eliminating waste, and seeking continuous improvement.

Having its origins in Lean ‘5S’ is a management tool consisting of five tenets: Sort, Store, Shine, Standardize and Sustain; and can be used by both industry and government.

Meetings that include voting options on agenda items get results.

The unnecessary use of gendered language should be removed from the professional lexicon. 

Coryanne Hicks notes that: ‘Every discipline has a language’, and ‘business skills are the language of business’.

Rules governing the introduction of a new government procurement panel were introduced in the 2020 Federal Budget and require federal government agencies to report annually on total spending on contracts and consultancies.

Decisions to work from home, by supervisors or individuals. need to balance ensuring capability requirements are met with flexibility and personal wellbeing.

Ways to improve giving and receiving honest feedback.

Seeking feedback, like giving it, requires planning.

Giving any feedback requires leaders to be conscious of how the message is delivered, including when and where.

New technology spurred on by COVID-19 offers the opportunity for more interesting and productive work.

This article is based on American workplaces and claims that the number of people working from home will increase—this probably also applies to Australia.

Businesses need to shed preconceived ideas and think laterally to recruit and retain quality people.

India is looking for workers who are flexible, adaptable, understand technology, speak good English and who are continually upgrading their skills

Tanner Simkins identifies the five skills that every manager needs: communication coaching, inclusivity, development planning, and time management.

This article provides guidance on how to develop training and education material for online courses.

One of the business skills that became increasingly important during the Covid-19 pandemic was patience and in particular knowing when to be patient.