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8 ways investing in staff development improves your bottom line

13 August 2018

Employee development refers to learning and performance solutions that provide your team with skills to help them succeed in their job. It can also encompass other management functions like recruitment and selection and policies and procedures, though training and development is probably the key element for employee development plans.

The real reason men don't feel biased and women don't feel disadvantaged

13 August 2018

The issue with gender equality in workforces today is primarily the result of what researchers call ‘second- generation bias’. It is not overt or malicious, but it is why men don’t feel they are being biased, and why women may not feel explicitly or deliberately disadvantaged ... even if both are true on some level.

Learning to stretch the new standard

26 July 2018

The way we learn is changing dramatically. In the past we would rely on formal schooling before we then entered a technical college or university for more learning. Once we entered the workforce it was up to the employer to provide further education through fairly rigid training programs or by providing simple on-the-job experience.

Expanded opportunities in the new workplace

26 July 2018

The future workplace would be one filled with a whole raft of new career opportunities, according to a recent roundtable on Digital Economy Skills.

First mover advantage key for small business

26 July 2018

Shape your future or be shaped was a key message to come out of the Digital Economy Skills round table co-hosted by The Australian Financial Review and DeakinCo. and it was one strongly aimed at Australia's small business sector.