Recognition is an important part of acknowledging employees and keeping them engaged and motivated toward your company’s success. Positively recognizing employees gives them much-needed credit for their hard work – it also goes a long way in increasing job satisfaction and organizational morale. It’s simple: companies operate more efficiently when their employees are happy.

According to an Accountemps survey, regular recognition of accomplishments is one of the highest valued forms of non-monetary compensation for both part-time and full-time employees. However, employee recogniti

Carrying yourself more confidently will make you feel more confident and vice versa. Looking self-assured, even if you’re faking it, is an easy way to kick-start feelings of self-belief. So if you want to feel ten foot tall and bullet proof, you need to at least pretend first.

Psychologist Dr Jessamy Hibberd and journalist Jo Usmar have recently released their book entitled This Book Will Make You Confident and it offers some Cognitive Behavioural Therapy methods that can be applied into professional situations to remove anxiety and stress.

Humans interact through physical representations of their emotions and tho

By Dan Musson is CEO of the Australian Institute of Management

THE dramatic shifts and uncertainty in the Senate’s balance of power may make it more difficult for the federal government to pass its controversial deregulation reforms. But whatever happens, the need for change will remain real.

So too will the need for the right settings to ensure the quality of all education providers and to bring about a renewed focus on students. Debate on these issues must be rational – there is too much at stake for much-needed reform to be hijacked and ground to a halt by vested interests.

The reforms are the next step

Professional sports in Australia are becoming more lucrative for athletes every year and sports headlines are increasingly as much about the salaries and contracts of players as they are about the results themselves. We hear the numbers bandied about as we label these new breed of athletes as mercenaries for negotiating contracts with rival clubs and codes behind closed doors.

There is still an expectation placed on professional athletes that they should sacrifice everything in the relentless pursuit of trophies and championships for our favourite club or glory for the nation. But what do we provide them in return when their aching knees finally relent and their athleti

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As a manager or a leader, we are responsible for the culture in our teams and organisations. So if we want to create a positive culture we need to learn to be positive ourselves. This isn’t always easy as there are any number of factors that affect our outlook and mood every day.

You may have a team meeting planned that you were going to turn into an all-out, pat on the back pep rally but receiving an angry email from the chairman five minutes beforehand can really take the wind out of your sails. Train delays, spilt coffee and parking tickets can all throw a spanner in the works for your plan to be th

By Dr Malcolm Johnson FAIM

Time flies. Halfway through the financial year and performance targets have become a near and present reality. It’s here we ask, what can you change now to gain beneficial outcomes at the start of the new calendar year?

As we approach Christmas, some employees will be looking forward to performance bonuses. Others do not have this as part of their remuneration package. Within a single workforce, such disparity can set a discordant tone if remuneration arrangements are seen to lack fairness in terms of dollars (distributive justice) or organisational processes (procedural justice). Any resulting dissatisfaction with