Projects & Initiatives

(Applications close 5pm AEST 20 June 2012) The ALA Fellowships program is a competitive grants program.  It was established in 2006 to develop leadership, address priority development issues, and build

From Leslie Pratch at the Harvard Business Review blog comes this interesting article on why women leaders need self confidence – even if they feel self-critical inside. 

Volunteering on a not-for-profit organisation’s board or committee might be the smartest thing you ever do – board experience and leadership go hand in hand. Click here to read more. 

From the Harvard Business Review Blog Network is a great article that every mentor should read – “Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask”.

From the New York Times comes this article from Peggy Klaus on how to ask for what you want in the workplace. “Whether from fear of being perceived as too

From Business Week and Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith comes 20 common bad habits that can hold you back from achieving the leadership heights you aspire to:

• Winning Too Much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.
• Adding Too Much Value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.
• Passing Judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
• Making Destructive Comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
• Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”: The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”
• Telling the World How Smart We Are: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.
• Speaking When Angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
• Negativity: The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.
• Withholding Information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.