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To help, we've assembled three of the most important strategies that can contribute to keeping managers in the business for longer.

Guest post by Georgia Murch

How many conversations with people, friends, colleagues, family become bigger than they need to be because you don’t ‘nip them in the bud’ in the early days?  That is, when you first noticed the issue or problem or when something wasn’t quite right. 

The scenarios vary widely; from being spoken to rudely, observing someone arrive too late, missing a deadline, an inappropriate outfit being worn, the second Monday being taken as a ‘sick’ day or your Manager cancelling your weekly catch up - the list goes on. 

Guest post by Alison Vidotto

How do you keep your employees motivated and engaged? Is it something you struggle with?

Research now tells us that contrary to popular belief, money is not the primary motivating factor for employees to be happy with their job. If you want to retain good staff it’s not as simple as offering a pay increase or an attractive benefits package. There is something else that they value more than remuneration, something a little more intangible. They value job satisfaction.

by AIM Facilitator Peter Cullen

Would you actually know what I was talking about if I came up to you and said “You are guilty of unconscious bias”? Many of us would have a quizzical look on our face, feel a little confused and wonder if we had heard correctly.

By AIM Senior Research Fellow Dr Samantha Johnson

‘Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.’ Abraham Lincoln

What’s your reputation?  What are you known for?  What do people think when they hear your name?

Australians are rightly proud of their country, and the nation's business landscape is certainly grounded in qualities that are quintessentially Australian. However, the modern global economy is calling for managers to operate with increasing flexibility, working with colleagues from around the world as well as leading teams that are increasingly diverse. When portions of a team are based overseas, this complexity becomes even more difficult to manage.

Most of us are too young to remember the BBC radio show The Brains Trust from the 1940s and 50s where experts tried to answer wide-ranging questions sent in from the audience. While the show itself is long gone, the phrase 'brains trust' remains lodged in our collective vocabulary and is still widely used, both sarcastically and sincerely. 

LinkedIn is the largest professional networking website in the world and it offers members a plethora of opportunties for networking, job hunting and business promotion. Getting yourself noticed in the professional world in 2016 can hinge on how polished your LinkedIn profile page is looking. A US hospitality jobs search platform called Leisurejobs, has recently created the below infographic which gives you all the tips you need to become a LinkedIn star.

Seventy per cent of Australian business people believe that new technologies will eliminate jobs currently performed by humans at their company, but interestingly 69.38 per cent of the same participants didn’t believe it will be their job that is at risk.

One of Australia’s leading recruitment and HR service providers, Davidson, conducted a national survey of business people from a cross-section of industries and roles to determine exactly what Australian business people really think about the future of work.