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To be nimble is to survive. Innovation will kill the stagnant. We’ve heard it countless times – successful organisations are innovative and agile. We’ve also seen it happen right before our eyes. Uber putting the taxi industry on notice, the end of Blockbuster Video and rise of Netflix.

We invite AIM Business School Faculty member, Dr David Paul to discuss Mindfulness and the innovative new AIM Short Course: ‘Mindfulness: Raise your Leadership Effectiveness’. Dr Paul has over 25 years of experience teaching Mindfulness techniques to some of Australia’s top leaders and Global Executives.

Corporate Entrepreneurship, or more aptly Intrapreneurship, is gaining traction, again. There are many companies quietly embracing and developing this powerful advantage.

Money makes the world go round and the same is true for your business or organisation. The importance of the role of accounting in business in ensuring the quality of financial reporting can’t be overstated.

As leaders, we build a repertoire of behaviors that work well for us and then we refine, tweak, refine.

In a noisy world, it can be easy for leaders to equate impact with how much they talk. Less is thought about the power of silence. Silence is a communication device, just like listening and talking, which when used wisely can increase a leader’s impact.

Effective learning and development programs empower people to gain new skills and cultivate new knowledge. It’s become well understood by “employers of choice” that employees are more likely to be engaged at work when their organisation proactively offers learning and development opportunities. 

Accounting is often referred to as the ‘language of business’ that is responsible for measuring the results of an organisation's economic activities. Accountants convey this information to a variety of users, including investors, creditors, management, and regulators.

Emotional intelligence also known as EI, describes a person’s or team’s ability to recognise emotions, to understand their powerful effect, and to use that information to guide thinking and behaviour. As a leader wishing to build an emotionally intelligent team, you need to focus on building emotional intelligent individuals first.

Are you a star player in your current role as a team member or even as a manager? Are you regularly smashing your KPIs while being generally hardworking and adding massive value to your organisation?