Personnel management ensures military readiness by enhancing team cohesion and morale. It optimises resource allocation, ensuring compliance with regulations and facilitating effective communication. Promoting leadership development and addressing individual needs are crucial aspects that support mission success.

Managing career progression and enhancing operational efficiency are key components. Personnel management reduces turnover and retention issues, ensuring welfare and support for all members. This leads to a more effective and cohesive military unit, ultimately contributing to the overall success and efficiency of military operations.

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How Much Should I Tell a Team Whose Boss Is on Thin Ice?

A conundrum for military managers is how much can they reveal, if anything, about personal management matters to maintain both morale and privacy.
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Communication & Cognition

Everyday Philosophy: How much empathy is too much empathy?

This article examines how our capacity for empathy can be used for good or evil; illustrating how an empathetic person can turn to support or charity work, or manipulate people for personal gain.
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Military Management

TED TALK: How to set the right goals and stay motivated

Ayelet Fishbach shares insights on goal-setting, offering strategies to maintain motivation and achieve objectives. This approach provides a better understanding of personal and professional goal-setting, which is essential for effective leadership and long-term success.
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Leadership

Top Ways To Keep Employees Engaged And Purposeful

This article offers critical insights into Gallup's findings on employee engagement, underlining the significant impact of disengaged employees on workplace outcomes, including performance, retention, customer service, and work quality. Understanding these trends is vital for improving organisational health and productivity.
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Military Management

Should I be brutally honest in my exit interview?

Military managers often conduct exit interviews when personnel leave or are posted, but many people are unsure how to approach this type of interview.
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Communication & Cognition

From 'hushed hybrid' to 'quiet vacationing,' here are the biggest workplace trends right now

This article examines how employees are handling the gruelling demands of modern work through a host of workplace trends; particularly highlighting those that have gone viral recently, including ‘hushed hybrid’, ‘quiet vacationing’, and the ‘corporate accent’.
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Military Management

How to manage team members who think they know more than they do

Managing overconfident team members requires fostering a culture of respect for expertise while addressing gaps in knowledge—effective strategies include encouraging humility, facilitating mentorship, and emphasizing the value of collective wisdom.
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Australian Army personnel along with participants from the Indigenous Tribal Warrior program take part in a boxing session at Victoria Barracks in Sydney.
Wellbeing

Time Management and Wellbeing

Good time management is good self-management. It is about living life to the fullest and choosing your activities and tasks that align with that purpose; which you define with your goals.This article encourages the reader to set clear goals and replace a traditional ‘to-do’ list with a more effective alternative, leading to better productivity, less stress and potential career advancement.
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Military Management

The house always wins: how to boost ADF recruitment

Defence should offer attractive housing deals to recruit and retain personnel.
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Military Management

How to survive a toxic boss, step-by-step

Toxicity in the workplace from a boss can include belittling, intimidation, micromanagement, and disregard for employee well-being, creating a hostile environment.
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Communication & Cognition

5 Ways to Be a Friendly Workplace for All Generations

This article argues that we should ignore generational stereotypes and start seeing people as unique individuals.
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Military Management

5 ways to motivate a team that’s not driven by money

Managers need to balance team members' personal needs against organisational requirements.
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Military Management

5 ways to avoid the ‘isolation trap’ at work

Managers and leaders can build strategic teams, but interpersonal relationships ultimately determine success.
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Military Management

Internet Surveillance in the Workplace: 43% report having their online activity monitored in 2024

As technology makes it easier and cheaper, electronic monitoring of employees in the workplace becomes widespread.
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Military Management

The complex future of work means everyone will need a diverse skill set

As employers seek cross-disciplinary skills, education may shift from specialised disciplines to integrated learning approaches.
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Military Management

3 Simple Rules to Boost Meeting Engagement

To ensure meetings are productive, apply simple but effective strategies to engaged the audience.
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Military Management

AI Can Take Over Key Management Roles In Scientific Research

AI could replicate and potentially surpass the capability of human managers in some fields.
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Military Management

Why The Digital Age Integrates Leadership And Management

Debate blurs upper-level roles and tasks, causing role imbalances and affecting organisational morale and efficacy.
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Military Management

Why ‘Management’ Desperately Needs A Fresh Definition

Military management's lack of definition leads to varied interpretations and applications.
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Military Management

How Can You Tell Someone Has Bad Management Skills? Research Says It Comes Down to 1 Simple Phrase

In a study, 63% of participants disliked managers claiming staff's work, a trait so negative they'd contemplate quitting. The preferred approach is a servant leader who recognises their team's efforts, ensuring everyone knows it was the team's work.
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Director-General Engineering for Navy, Commodore Rachel Durbin, CSC, RAN, speaks to Lieutenant Loretta Binder (right) about 2022 International Woman’s Day and the roles and capabilities of woman in leading STEM roles in Navy engineering.
Leadership

How Coaching Can Help You Move from Crisis Management to Crisis Leadership

Most organisations will at some time experience a crisis—coaching can help an organisation learn from a crisis and emerge more robust and with even more loyalty from customers, employees, and the community.
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Leading Seaman Physical Training Instructor Toby Miell conducts a fitness session on the flight deck of HMAS Parramatta during the warship's East Asia Deployment.
Leadership

Management Lessons From James Bond, For The Post-COVID World

Despite being a sole operator with legendary catch-phrases, James Bond can offer a lesson or two for modern leaders.
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Recruits from Kapooka’s Recruit Development Wing (RDW) have participated in a week of Adventurous Training at Wee Jasper in Southern NSW.
Military Management

3 ways ‘algorithmic management’ makes work more stressful and less satisfying

This article addresses the problem of how human personnel management can co-exist with algorithmic management.
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Royal Australian Air Force loadmasters Corporal Antonia Guterres (left) and Corporal Jakeb Thorogood prepare to board a C-27J Spartan aircraft before conducting a maritime surveillance mission in Palau during Operation Solania.
Military Management

10 Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills

The lack of time to complete tasks can cause stress, but stress can be alleviated and productivity improved through applying simple time management strategies.
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Australian Army soldier Craftsman Dennis Bernardo, from the 7th Combat Service Support Battalion, provides support to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Military Management

What is data management and why is it important?

Every day massive amounts of data are generated—data management is a vital business skill to ensure that organisations use data effectively and efficiently.
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No. 22 Squadron firefighter Leading Aircraftwoman Haley Jamsek lets Logan, Lachlan and their mum Kylie try out firefighting nozzles during the Hawkesbury Show.
Leadership

Why Working Mums Make Exceptional Managers

Parenting skills acquired by working mothers are readily transferred to the workplace.
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Military Management

Characteristics of a Good Leader: Tips for New Managers

This article explores how new managers need to refocus from their own work quality to applying leadership skills to the development of their subordinates’ work quality and output while growing and developing themselves.
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Military Management

2 simple ways to get people to listen when you speak, according to a Stanford communication expert

Most professionals overestimate their listening skills, with 70% showing poor habits.
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Do the Same People Always Talk at Your Meetings? Ask Yourself These 10 Questions to Make Meetings More Productive

Inclusive meetings are ones that prioritize equitable participation, respect diverse perspectives, encourage active listening, and ensure that everyone feels valued and included.
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The future of digital work relies on people, not just technology

Employers are increasingly facing difficulties due to the international digital skills shortage; therefore, they need to train their own people to develop and apply emerging technologies.
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Australian Army soldiers from 11 Brigade are briefed before securing a house in Toowoomba during Exercise Arras Sprint 2022.
Wellbeing

4 Things Employees Need From Leadership to Support Their Well-Being

COVID19 has resulted in uncertainty for many employees, and those affected need stability, trust, compassion and, a clear plan of action from their leaders.
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Communication & Cognition

Three Ways to Deal With Your Micromanaging Boss

The relationship between you and your boss affects job satisfaction. Micromanagement is a leadership style, not a personal flaw. It is a result of experience, values, and environment. Building trust with your boss can help alleviate micromanagement tendencies.
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Military Management

7 Signs a Business Is Riddled With Burnout Culture

If you consistently feel overwhelmed at work despite adjustments, it might be burnout. Studies suggest employer-related issues. Strategies exist to assess workplace toxicity before joining.
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Communication & Cognition

This is the secret to healing a toxic culture

The categorical imperative is the moral obligation to act as you would be willing to have everyone else so act. The author argues that every decision we make contributes to a new cultural norm and can impact the success of an organisation.
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Five Ways To Create A Learning Culture Within Your Team

Investing in a learning culture involves encouraging everybody to understand their role in the organisation, to learn new things and acquire new skills, and to develop an awareness of how the wider environment might impact the organisation.
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(l-r) Aircraftwoman Maria De Leon, a Network Technician from No.462 Squadron, with High Performance Program Manager Warrant Officer Janet Brennan during a coaching session at RAAF Base Edinburgh.
Leadership

Why Emotionally Intelligent People Still Follow Colin Powell's 13 Rules for Leaders

For many people, one Colin Powell's legacy will be his simple and oft-repeated 13 rules of effective leadership.
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4 things emotionally intelligent people do when they have a tough new job

Starting a new job can be stressful—but tackling your new role with an emotionally intelligent approach can make a big difference.
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