Management

How effectively are you managing your people and your organisation?  Are you keeping up to date with management trends and tools to be as effective and efficient as you can be?  Here are some resources and interesting reads to help you improve your management skills:

• Is Australia suffering from the “Stupid Curve”? New research and new name for how we're utilising our national talent
  
• A guide to motivating your staff by enabling them to realise the impact of their work, and who their work benefits
  
• Equal Pay Campaign Launched with National Test Case
  
• Ideas vs Vision: Great new HBR Blog, find out more about the new form of creativity required for business success
  
• Why are women-owned firms smaller than male ones?
• The Hidden Brain Drain Task Force
• Quick look at new findings on workplace bullying
• Losing the work-life balance battle? Stop working and start superworking
• Look on the bright side... we've made SOME progress since 1943!
• Do you trust your boss?
• Should execs jump through more hoops into the top jobs?
• Is it time you commercialised your contact list?
• What I Wish I Knew When I Started – business shortcuts to the fast lane  
• Bite-Sized Business Learning Workshops for businesswomen
•  New research shows work-life balance is key to attracting and retaining staff
• 'Feeling the Love' (or Anger): How Emotions Can Distort the Way We Respond to Advice
•  “Managing Your Solid Citizens” to get the best out of everyone of your employees
• Hiring from Outside the Company: How New People Can Bring Unexpected Problems
• The Work/Life Balance is all about the “Four-way Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self”
• “360-Degree Mentoring” – a HBR article discusses how to get the most value from your mentoring relationships
• Performance is about the body, emotions, mind and spirit. How to “Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time”
• The halo effect, and other managerial delusions - Companies cannot achieve superior and lasting business performance simply by following a specific set of steps
• HBR: A Year of Management Ideas on CD
• HBR Podcast - Managing B Players
  
• Bringing Best Practice to China - As the country merges into the world economy, best practice in China will become best practice globally
• Will You Help or Heave Underperformers? This HBR article offers practical advice on addressing underperformers
• Are You Delegating So It Sticks? How to make delegation easier and more effective
• What Were They Thinking?: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
• The Halo Effect: Debunking Some Hot Business Books with One of His Own
• What Are Your Customers Really Worth?
• Why Teens Aren't Finding Jobs, and Why Employers Are Paying the Price

If you have an idea to help working women to improve their confidence and competence at work, we’d love to hear from you!