Tenders are becoming increasingly competitive and it is not unusual for procurement panels to be reviewing 20 or 30 tenders for one contract. Jason Cooney has ideas for leaders to
Here is an innovative solution to offering your employees more flexibility. When we first heard about the four-day work week, BioGro thought we could do something fairer too and so
Our current extreme market operating environment calls for extraordinary measures, including temporary relief from liability around company continuous disclosure provisions, according to the Institute of Directors. A media release from
A recently published study by a leadership scholar at Massey University, Dr Suze Wilson…
Management’s publisher Cathy Parker and editor Annie Gray meet John Allen, the chair of the Be. Institute who has been a senior leader and CEO across both the public and private sectors.
Remembering to breathe is important.
Here are FIVE ways company leaders can do their best for staff, customers and the bottom line. The great business savant Richard Branson famously said: “Clients do not come first.
Good leadership is just as often about what you don’t do, as what you do, writes David Pich. When it comes to building leaders, there is an inundating stampede of
While director remuneration can be complex, the Institute of Directors says setting fees should be fair, defensible and transparent. In a statement released following calls from the New Zealand Shareholders
If something goes horribly wrong, what is a CEO to do? One thing best avoided is the “no comment” response. By Dwayne Alexander. “No comment” is the reflexive response from
How would our leadership appointments change if we looked for competence, humility and courage, before judging on how confident someone appears? By Megumi Miki. In a Harvard Business Review (HBR)
To succeed in today’s world, leaders need to be flexible and empathetic, says Zac de Silva, who also sees leadership evolving to offer a more personalised approach to managing each
As the future of work becomes today’s reality, the way we work continues to evolve and shift, as more people become self-directing and self-selecting in their roles. And this means
Supplied by Institute of Managers and Leaders Australia and New Zealand: Success in business rests heavily on getting a good return on your investment. From producing products, to upgrading technological
What more do we need to do to build inclusion and embrace diversity and how do we model this in the organisations we lead? It has to start at the
The well-publicised comments by Israel Folau recently highlight something many businesses must deal with daily. Your staff may not be as high profile, but the issues are just as thorny,
A financial focus is unlikely to capture all the value a leader might generate, writes Kate Kearins. For many years, mainstream business researchers have focused on identifying the factors that
Diversity and inclusion are two different things. Employing people from different backgrounds, with different perspectives, does not mean they will have a voice. By Alida Raubenheimer-Coetzer. What is great
It is in times of crisis – especially crises that carry with them basic issues of survival and morality – that we most feel in need of leadership to help
CEOs across the spectrum of New Zealand’s business sector are very clear on what they want in their top team – they want them performing as one cohesive, integrated unit.
The Institute of directors has more than 8,700 members…
While a recent survey of New Zealand CEOs identified a “return to territorialism” as the greatest threat to growth for their organisation, it also found they are less confident about their organisations delivering digital transformation.
Heather Shotter has a strong corporate background including 12 years as part of the leadership team at SkyCity and more latterly as executive director of two not-for-profit organisations.
The Institute of Management NZ (IMNZ) has announced that it has now joined Skills Group. Skills Group is a vocational education specialist with a global footprint and IMNZ’s general manager
If you are thinking about stepping up to a director role, Adrenalin’s publisher Cathy Parker recently attended the Institute of Directors’ company directors course, and one of her key take-outs
In a world where good leadership is highly prized, the question is whether any of us are ever…
Douglas Lang is taking a minimalist challenge – getting rid of the clutter. He asks what…
What does it take to be a successful company director? And are you cut out for the role…
West Coast dairy farmer Katie Milne is the new Federated Farmers’ national president…
You probably understand very well what motivates you personally as a leader. But…
A new guide for potential investors highlighting opportunities in the Māori economy…
The Institute of Directors (IoD) has appointed Liz Coutts as its first female president…
Jane McCarroll offers tips and strategies to help your interns be successful and to help you…
Diversity champion Global Women is delighted with the NZX revised diversity reporting guidelines…
The Mental Health Foundation (MHF) is calling on New Zealand employers to make mental…
Being a female leader is about understanding what you can change, when you need to…
Local Government New Zealand has launched a new piece of work to create a comprehensive…
Seven AGMARDT scholarships totalling $80,000 have been granted to agribusiness…
Sometimes the best thing you can do for your team is keep your mouth shut and…
In New Zealand most boards review their fee levels only every two, three or four years. Can…
It’s a pity that most times we are trying to adopt new leadership approaches in work settings…
For leaders today, the emphasis appears to be increasingly on life-long learning and the…
Business leaders in Asia reported the most positive economic outlook of any region in the world…
Professional development will take on a new meaning in September when women will trade their work place for the bush and their meeting rooms for huts in Anakiwa at Outward Bound’s first Women in Leadership course.
Our Postgraduate Certificate in Strategic Leadership is specifically designed to develop the…
Wouldn’t it be great to find a way to gain the same level of focus as we have when we are about to…
Meet the three finalists in the IMNZ/Eagle Technology Young Executive of the Year Award 2015…
Women in the corporate world need to banish the word ‘busy’ from their life and instead…
As a nation we are shortly going to be captured by the excitement of the business end of the…
The country’s largest retailer, The Warehouse Group, has launched a new initiative to support victims of family violence and encourage those affected by family violence to seek help.
If we all strived to operate from a place that respects who we are as individuals, in an ethical manner with integrity in our business dealings, can you imagine the type of leaders we could be for others and, ultimately, ourselves, asks Fiona Hewitt.
What is talentism? Simon Arcus discusses the growing relevance of talent to New Zealand boards and…
New Zealand leaders need to reinvent, reimagine, explore, create, heal, inspire. Sina Wendt-Moore says that fearless leaders have a responsibility to embrace life, influence it, change it, shake things up – make this world a better place and make a difference.
There are four major global trends predicted to impact leadership and management capability and development over the next 10 years. Fiona Hewitt explains why impactful leadership is so important.
If you feel like you are an imposter, despite your successes in life, you are not alone, says Iain McCormack.
John McGill delves into the former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew’s approach to public sector pay.
One useful way to better understand yourself as a leader is to understand your personality, says Iain McCormack. So how emotionally stable, extroverted, open to experience, agreeable and conscientious are you?
The premise that a fit and healthy CEO creates a healthy company is not a new concept, but are our business leaders working up a sweat to keep themselves and their organisations in peak condition? By Patricia Moore.
For any organisation, workplace bullying leads to less organisational commitment, demotivation, job dissatisfaction and higher levels of absenteeism and resignations.
Fewer global CEOs than last year think global economic growth will improve over the next 12 months, although confidence in their ability to achieve revenue growth in their own companies remains stable.
It may be much more impactful to identify the five or six areas in which you are most talented and to find a way to leverage these, rather than look to develop areas in which you are not naturally gifted, says Douglas Lang
NZIM’s new Chief Executive has always been driven to find a better way of doing things.
In a crisis it’s incredibly important that it looks like a company is taking the situation seriously and the best way to do that is to have the CEO, or highest-ranking local executive, represent the business in every media interview. By Fleur Revell.
Good boards are realising that evaluation is a great deal more than box-ticking compliance, and that much can be gained from using an external facilitator.
