Category: Opinion

What you need to know about work-from-home productivity

Is the innovation of work-from-home yielding higher productivity than in the traditional office-based setup? Research shows that hybrid and even fully remote teams can gain...

Elon Musk’s Forced Return-to-Office Policy Might Harm Tesla

The forced return-to-office policy is at odds with employees’ desire for autonomy and flexibility. KEY POINTS Elon Musk recently demanded that all Tesla staff return...

4 Ways to Improve Your Everyday Communication

Avoid misunderstandings by assessing key areas of your everyday communication. KEY POINTS Miscommunication and arguments can stem from recurrent patterns in communication. The four components...

How to Defeat the Empathy Gap

The empathy gap causes us to greatly underestimate the importance of emotions. KEY POINTS The empathy gap causes us to greatly underestimate the importance of...

The Best Ways to Get Constructive Feedback

Gathering feedback is essential for improving stakeholder membership engagement. KEY POINTS Leaders often fall prey to cognitive biases that prevent them from incorporating feedback from...

Love and the Communication Myth

Which comes first, communication or connection? One of the great myths of pop psychology is that communicating better makes good relationships. It’s the myth that...

Communicating with Prospective Clients

In this featured piece, award-winning career coach Marty Nemko shares a sure-fire way of communicating with prospective clients. My website encourages prospective clients to email...

How Decoding Body Language Can Improve Your Life

With some practice, you can learn to control how others see you. KEY POINTS: Developing a better understanding of body language can help us to...

Why Australian businesses should lift their name game

In a culturally diverse society like Australia, mastering multicultural names can give your business an edge over your competitors. When people immigrate to an English-speaking...

Six things you need to understand about the 6G technology

The pace of change in telecommunications is increasing every year. A case in point is the rapid research and development of 6G technologies when 5G...

US says TikTok can’t be trusted with user data. Should Aussies be worried?

When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years...

Transparency on Social Media for Australian Politicians

In 2021, the relationship between politicians and media publications/journalists is as contentious as ever with an unspoken war between the two. This unspoken war has...

Keeping Australians Safe Online 23 June

The Morrison Government has welcomed the passage through the Senate last night of the new Online Safety Act. The Act provides stronger powers for the...

Leading NFP for-good communications shares 5 tips for working remotely

With governments and companies doing all they can to halt the spread of COVID-19, more and more people are beginning to work remotely either by...