Business Skilling | The Runway

As a topic of Program Wirraway, Business Skilling focuses on promoting professionalism through up-skilling in the broad areas of management, organisational and cultural competence, attitudes, values and ethics, resilience and strategies to be employed as you navigate the complex Defence systems throughout your career.

Business Skilling

Laziness is a myth. Here’s how to escape toxic productivity culture

The myth of laziness is debunked in this article, revealing that our culture's obsession with productivity is the root of our mental health crisis and that humans thrive with leisure and creativity.

Business Skilling

The companies backtracking on flexible work

Remote working became commonplace during covid, but companies now feel in a strong enough position to demand that their workers return to their offices.

Business Skilling

Leadership Can Prepare For Changing Business Trends With A Longer-Term Lens

The article discusses the challenges facing organizational leaders in today's ever-changing business environment and suggests focusing on customer and employee needs, redefining value, adapting to technology, and implementing common success factors to prepare for the future.

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These jobs are most likely to be replaced by chatbots like ChatGPT

The introduction of artificial intelligence applications like ChatGPT has the potential to change the nature of work radically.

Business Skilling

Op-ed: Wearable exoskeletons to preserve warehouse workers’ health

The logistics industry is adopting exoskeletons to improve individual productivity while at the same time reducing the risk of workplace injury.

Business Skilling

How remote and hybrid work broke performance reviews

Remote and hybrid work can mean that supervisors may not know their staff well enough to be the sole source of information to inform performance reviews.

Business Skilling

These are the industries that are struggling most to find workers

In early 2023 a labour shortage is hitting the Australian service industry—it is worth noting that Defence contractors compete in this market in providing services to defence, which could affect future costs.

Business Skilling

Tired of after-work emails and calls? In these countries, they’re outlawed

Some governments have realised the negative impact of after-hours digital work-related communications on overall productivity and worker health and are introducing legislation to stop it from happening.

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NYSE glitch traced back to employee who left backup system running, report says

A junior employer who failed to shut down the servers running The NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) resulted in a significant fluctuation of prices among some company shares—these companies are now likely to seek compensation.

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The true corporate horror story that’s scarier than Stephen King

In this review of a book about the management consultants McKinsey, the Sydney Morning Herald notes that McKinsey engages in a whole raft of very dubious practices.