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Leadership Traits in Disadvantaged Areas: A Strong Sense of The Practical
Leadership Leadership Traits in Disadvantaged Areas: A Strong Sense of The Practical

One of the most frequent questions that a leader must ask in a disadvantaged areas is "is it practical?" This is because leaders in such areas do not have the luxury of experimentation or trial and error. They must first understand if a suggestion is going to provide a genuine, practical benefit to them as they seek to do the best job they possibly can.

Why a Sense of Belonging Is Vital for Successful Leadership
Leadership Why a Sense of Belonging Is Vital for Successful Leadership

The concept of 'belonging' in a certain area, city or country has been a key political driver for decades. Whether we are displaced refugees searching for amnesty, teens starting school in a new suburb for the first time, or proud community members who still live down the street from where we were born, a sense of belonging and feeling at home is what we aim for. This is what makes us feel secure and linked to something greater than ourselves.

Leadership Traits in Lower Socio-economic Areas: Free-Thinking and Flexibility
Leadership Leadership Traits in Lower Socio-economic Areas: Free-Thinking and Flexibility

In Australia, the most advantaged and the most disadvantaged people tend to live almost side by side. Take Sydney for example; the New South Wales city is home to Emerton and Busby, which rank among some of the most disadvantaged areas in the country, yet these are just a few kilometres from areas such as St Ives and West Pennant Hills, which rank among the most advantaged.

Leadership Traits in Lower Socio-economic Areas: Decisiveness
Leadership Leadership Traits in Lower Socio-economic Areas: Decisiveness

The Goldilocks Zone – the situation in which everything is ‘just right’ and running smoothly – is so rare that it may as well not exist at all. Instead, almost all of the decisions we must make are fraught with compromises, and with unforeseen variables which exist beyond our control.

Traits Leaders from Lower Socio-Economic Areas Tend to Exhibit
Leadership Traits Leaders from Lower Socio-Economic Areas Tend to Exhibit

Leadership. It seems like a pretty straight forward concept. There are good leaders and bad leaders. In order to be a good leader, one must do certain things. It is an easy recipe for success. Right?

How to Prepare Millennials for Future Leadership Success
Leadership How to Prepare Millennials for Future Leadership Success

The Kafka-esque nightmare of the traditional employment ladder just does not cut it anymore. Being forced to navigate shifting goalposts, opaque promotion structures, favouritism, nepotism and all manner of other hallmarks of an uneven playing field has no place in the modern workplace. 

How to Influence, Train and Enable Millennials for Leadership
Leadership How to Influence, Train and Enable Millennials for Leadership

Step forward, Millennials; now it is your time. Thirty years of development, growth, understanding and tutelage have taken us to this point. Now, it is time for the Millennial generation to take over at the driving seat.

Curiosity as a Leader: Why Great Leadership Needs Curiosity
Leadership Curiosity as a Leader: Why Great Leadership Needs Curiosity

When does innovation occur? When a problem demands a new solution and a different approach. If there is no curiosity, how can these new paths be forged? Without curiosity, innovation simply cannot happen.

Leadership in the Family
Leadership Leadership in the Family

The Australian family looks a little different today to the way it did four decades ago. Walk into an average Australian household in 1976 and you would likely have seen a heterosexual couple raising dependent children – this was simply the most common family structure at that time.

Leadership in the Community: Building Stronger Communities Through Enabling Leadership
Leadership Leadership in the Community: Building Stronger Communities Through Enabling Leadership

Politics was once about causes and moral obligation; about standing up for what we believed in and making our voices heard. However, it feels that, recently, this idealism is lacking from modern governance.