11 Oct 2022
Kindness fuels innovation
Carina Parisella |
Jim Hogan, neuro-inclusion pioneer and Google Cloud’s Chief Innovation Evangelist, discusses how kindness can drive innovation in the workplace.
Career
02 Sep 2021
Jobs program to boost digital workforce
Kathryn van der Merwe | Group Executive – Talent & Culture, ANZ
Technology has changed the way we live and work forever. Now more than ever companies need to recruit people with digital and data skills who are able to take on a changing employment landscape.
08 Oct 2020
The ever evolving shape of work
Rita Newman | Group General Manager, Joiners and Movers, ANZ
While much of the detail of the future of work remains to be discovered, fundamental organisation beliefs and leadership play a key role.
08 Mar 2019
IWD2019: resuming with a resumé gap
Carina Parisella | Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Coming back to work can be daunting but coming back into an ever-changing tech industry is another thing all together.
17 Oct 2018
Women without borders
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
For innovation we need more women, more internationalists and more internationalist women.
15 Oct 2018
Sick babysitters & five tips for the ‘perfect’ work-life balance
Katie Bennett-Stenton | National Marketing Lead, Energy & Resources, Deloitte
Workplaces which provide flexibility are helping staff make the most of their lives – and those of their families.
05 Oct 2018
The rise of boss women
Katie Lahey | Executive Chairman, Korn Ferry Australasia
Could your organisation’s next CEO be a woman? If not you need to change the future, says Korn Ferry’s executive chairman.
21 Aug 2018
Bottling startup lightning
Carina Parisella | Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
A panel of experts discuss what startup founders can learn from big business – and what large corporates can take from a culture of disruption.
20 Aug 2018
PODCAST: Gone fishing? Still working…
Shayne Elliott | Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
ADC Dr Kay Patterson discusses the many benefits of supporting those who want to stay in the workforce past the retirement age.
16 Aug 2018
Creating Jamie
Shannon Newland | bluenotes contributor
Changing traditional industries are increasingly looking for creative thinkers.
14 Aug 2018
The benefits of finishing early
Rosemary Ryan | Freelance journalist
Studies show that retiring sooner rather than later can add years to your life.
23 Jul 2018
STEM, kids and breaking things
Carina Parisella | Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
Pulling things apart and repairing them is still a big pastime for kids - it’s just these days, everything is built from code.
16 Jul 2018
Her
Tony Field | bluenotes contributor
Meet Jamie, ANZ’s new assistant. She will change the way you look at banking.
16 Jul 2018
Are we the robots taking our jobs?
Carl Rhodes & Sarah Kaine | Professor & Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney
A look at education and the future of labour in a democratically engaged workforce.
12 Jul 2018
Back to the future: the rise of mature age interns
Jessica Mudditt | Freelance Journalist
Australia’s workforce is aging. Are internships the answer to keep people engaged and employed?
06 Jul 2018
Why does economic progress of Australia’s women keep stalling?
Bianca Hartge-Hazelman | Founder, Financy Women’s Index
Lingering debate still exists as to whether the economic progress of women is needed at all. One expert explains why this is plainly wrong.
21 Jun 2018
Preparing for the talent crunch
Andrew Lafontaine | Senior Client Partner, Korn Ferry
New data suggests the future talent deficit will impact many regions and industries. What must be done to future-proof business?
20 Jun 2018
Seeking asylum and barriers to success
Akuol Garang | Master of Human Rights law student & migration agent
Akuol’s family fled from war when she was a child, now she’s studying to become a Human Rights lawyer.
29 May 2018
Levis and a lifetime of advice
Catriona Noble | Managing Director Retail Distribution Australia, ANZ
ANZ’s Catriona Noble reflects on the mentors who have helped develop her career - and the way she is now giving back to others.
30 Apr 2018
Who’s who in the entrepreneurial zoo?
Jessica Mudditt | Freelance Journalist
Gorillas, gazelles, unicorns and cheetahs: why does discussing business growth feel like a trip to the zoo?
16 Apr 2018
Pursuing change, one step at a time
Melinda Renowden | Leadership and Executive Coaching Manager, ANZ
Changing mindsets can be difficult but a clear purpose and routine can help.
04 Apr 2018
Is it time to delete CVs and personality tests?
Carina Parisella | Innovation & Diversity Editor, bluenotes
In order to win in the digital future do big businesses need to morph into software companies?
03 Apr 2018
#WAAD: autism and filling the talent gap
Matt Ormiston | Head of Technology & Corporate Optimisation & TSO, ANZ
How are businesses diversifying their workforces in order to fill the growing talent gap – and what success are they finding?
07 Mar 2018
REWIND IWD2019: Baby, baby - how workplace pregnancy has changed in NZ
Susana Lei’ataua | bluenotes contributor
ANZ’s new 26 weeks’ paid parental leave is a far cry from the experiences of women in the past.
07 Mar 2018
IWD2018: trekking through the equality jungle
Elaine Bensted | CEO, Zoos South Australia
Everyone has a role to play in driving continual change and encouraging diversity of all types.
07 Mar 2018
IWD2018 PODCAST: bringing success to work
Shane White | Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Diversity in business is an asset as unique insights can be drawn from a broad range of experiences.
05 Mar 2018
IWD2018: how job sharing creates better leaders
Jemma Wight | Production Editor, bluenotes
Flexible working allows women - and men - to create a better work-life balance and ultimately be better workplace leaders.
01 Mar 2018
IWD2018: fake it till you make it
Catriona Noble | Managing Director Retail Distribution Australia, ANZ
In 2018, why is there still a cavernous gap between men and women assessing their own competence and ability to do a job?
05 Feb 2018
The idea exchange
Jemma Wight | Production Editor, bluenotes
On podcast, we discuss the mutual benefits of corporations partnering with academia.
31 Jan 2018
Asia’s education success story
Eugenia Victorino | Economist, ANZ
The challenge now is to cater to the needs of a rapidly changing labour market.
19 Jan 2018
Baby or your country?
Jemma Wight | Production Editor, bluenotes
As New Zealand’s PM announces her pregnancy, should anyone be questioning her ability to do her job?
11 Jan 2018
Cadel Evans: work hard, get rewards
Peter Wilmoth | Feature writer
The secret to cycling and career success is the same, according to Tour de France winner Cadel Evans.
04 Jul 2017
How the mobile revolution changed jobs – and the world
Shane White | Content Manager - Institutional, ANZ
Workers share their experiences of operating in a world with computers in their pockets.
30 May 2017
PODCAST: the key to success is persistence - and persistence
David Lewis | Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
Figure out what you’re good at and do it over and over again, Dean of Melbourne Business School Zeger Degraeve says.
22 May 2017
PODCAST: Disrupt yourself first
David Lewis | Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
It’s not just companies that disrupt, personal disruption can be just as powerful, author and influential management thinker Whitney Johnson explains.
09 May 2017
PODCAST: The future of work is anti-disciplinarian
David Lewis | Australian business professional and founder of The Mentor List
Work Club founder and CEO Soren Trampedach discusses the future of work – and it is essentially evolve or die.
25 Apr 2017
How modern PAs complete the best execs
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Sometime in the early 1980s, a time when most Australians thought espresso was a service offered by courier companies, the media company I was working for lashed out on a coffee machine for the staff kitchen.
19 Apr 2017
Eleanor Roosevelt, cats and professional excellence
Katie Bennett-Stenton | National Marketing Lead, Energy & Resources, Deloitte
Cats are said to have nine lives – but to ensure corporate survival and an upwards professional trajectory it can seem like you need more than nine to keep pace with change.
12 Apr 2017
It’s not all about millennials: consumers are ageing
Gina Westbrook | Director Strategy Briefings, Euromonitor
There’s never been a better time to be old – or to take advantage of the growing mature-consumer market. Life expectancy is rising around the world, having a major effect on consumer behaviour and the way business approach the market.
10 Apr 2017
Emotional intelligence: a core leadership skill
Leon Gettler | Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
Emotional intelligence - the ability to identify your own emotions and those of others - is now regarded as a core skill for leaders who want to get the best out of their teams.
29 Mar 2017
VIDEO: where real leadership happens
Andrew Cornell | Managing Editor, bluenotes
The idea everyone can be a leader is a myth, ANZ director Paula Dwyer says, but that doesn’t mean leadership can’t be found at every level of an organisation.
27 Mar 2017
We need to talk about mental health (at work)
Darren Abbruzzese | Former General Manager Data, ANZ
I had a conversation recently with a colleague who spoke of his wife's anxiety issues. Sometimes her anxiety can be quite overwhelming and he's had to take time off work to care for her.
20 Jan 2017
A new resolve for New Year resolutions
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
They may be more honoured in the breach, but New Year’s resolutions continue to be something we hold dear. Setting goals at the beginning of a New Year is both logistically sound and deeply rooted in custom: people have been making New Year’s resolutions since the time of ancient Rome.
16 Jan 2017
Tennis, testosterone and the winner effect
Matt Nicol | bluenotes contributor
The Australian Open crowd hushes as the second set begins. The centre-court match at Rod Laver Arena is all it was promised: the players are ranked nearly identically by the WTP; both showed comparably good form in the run up to the Open; and the first set tie-break was decided by the narrowest possible margin - just two points. It’s anyone’s game! Or is it?
11 Jan 2017
The complete UNDERBELLY 2016
Rod Clement | Walkley Award-winning cartoonist
Throughout 2016 award-winning Illustrator Rod Clement has shared UNDRBELLY, his unique take on the corporate workplace, to a huge reception on BlueNotes.
13 Dec 2016
LONGREAD: loyalty in the age of LinkedIn
Leon Gettler | Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
Employee loyalty is not what it used to be. In fact, it’s been declining for several years.
12 Dec 2016
Performance management is underperforming
Andrew Woolf | Global Human Capital Lead, Accenture Financial Services
Most managers resent the many hours they’re obliged to spend reviewing the performance of their team. Many employees would laugh off these reviews as artificial and retrospective if they didn’t have such an impact on their increases and bonuses.
11 Aug 2016
Eminence in a digital world
Andrew Grill | Global Managing Partner, IBM Social Consulting
Many companies employ people who are truly eminent and respected in their field - but nobody else knows about them. A formal eminence program can help identify and amplify these people for mutual benefit.
04 Aug 2016
VIDEO: Olympian lessons: you win or you learn
Andrew Gilbert | Head of App & User Support, ANZ
Seeing failure as an opportunity to learn can help give you an edge in competition and in the workplace, according to Australian table-tennis champion Melissa ‘Milly’ Tapper.
02 Aug 2016
Time to save experience from the scrap heap
Fiona Smith | Leadership journalist
It was the mention of his grandson that killed the job interview for Richard. The 65-year old had just been given the signal the job was ‘in the bag’ and was asked when he could start with a gas drilling company and whether a fly in-fly out work arrangement would be a problem.
01 Aug 2016
Resilience, stress and ultimate success
Natarlie Kierce | BlueNotes contributing editor
Darlene Harrison is head of performance coaching and leadership at the Australian Institute of Sport. She has worked in coaching at the AIS since 2009 and before that held a similar role in the UK for almost a decade.
29 Jul 2016
It’s standing room only in the C-Suite
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
When it comes to corporate careers, you know you’ve made it when you gain entry to the mahogany environs of the C-suite. ‘C’ being for ‘chief’ - as in Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO), or the big three ‘C’heeses.
25 Jul 2016
The price of Olympic success
Francesca Rizzo | BlueNotes contributing editor
As principal physiologist, performance science and innovation at the Australian Institute of Sport, Shona Halson holds a critical role in the Australian Olympic team. She is director of the Australian Olympic Committee recovery centre for Rio and served in the same role for the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games.
27 Jun 2016
Only 20% of CEOs have a clear plan to grow their business
Mark Hand | Group Executive Australia Retail and Commercial Banking, ANZ
Sustainable growth is the goal of almost all of Australia’s small and medium businesses. Simple in theory. But hard in practice.
24 Jun 2016
The best practices of the modern social executive
Darren Sibson | bluenotes contributor
You’re in the midst of the next social-media evolution. Mobile video consumption has grown precipitously and the rise of video platforms and virtual reality are going to make a significant difference to the way everyone consumes content.
12 Apr 2016
Seven tips for surviving the entrepreneurial jungle
Tessa Roulston | Change Manager, ANZ
What happens when you take 45 of Australia’s most innovative thinkers and drop them into the middle of the Amazon? It sounds like the plot of another awful reality TV show but it really happened – and proved to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life.
12 Apr 2016
Educating for a fragmented future in NZ
Tim Murphy | Journalist and Former Editor, New Zealand Herald
The predictions are startling: a 15 year-old today should expect to have 17 different jobs in five sectors in his or her working life. Two-thirds of the tertiary study currently being undertaken is towards jobs which soon won’t exist. Three-quarters of all new jobs will require science, maths or technology proficiency.
01 Apr 2016
Career dressing in Seoul
Sarah Imm | Founder, Vélo-à-Porter
One of my weekly chores growing up in Minnesota was ironing my father's business shirts. He was a stylish man and his pinpoint oxford shirts were one-hundred per cent cotton with a fine finish.
29 Mar 2016
The secret to leading the perfect team
Jo Mikleus | Former Chief of Staff, ANZ
Many elements make up the perfect team. The key is bringing together depth of experience, global mindsets, external perspectives, gender diversity as well as other dimensions such as leadership, curiosity, passion and drive.
11 Mar 2016
Is teamwork bad for your career?
Kath Walters | Content marketing consultant and freelance journalist
There's a fine line between being a 'giver' at work and being a doormat, as Adam Grant explains in his book Give and Take. Whatever side of the line your actions fall makes a big difference to your career prospects.
01 Feb 2016
Ten ways to keep your New Year leadership resolution
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
New Year's resolutions might seem a harmless custom – vows to join a gym or learn to do the tango - you know in your heart of hearts will never make it off the to-do list. But why waste the opportunity to make substantive changes?
27 Jan 2016
Ten ways to help your career succeed
Emma Davine | Head of Government & Commercialisation, Transaction Banking
From the ground floor to the boardroom, it's normal in your career - and smart - to always have one eye on the next step. But many feel they are poorly prepared to make a move or are reluctant to take a risk and move outside their comfort zone.
25 Nov 2015
Women: visibility a key to success
Amanda Gome | Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Without visibility and communication skills women, unless taken under the wing of a top male powerbroker, have almost no chance of progressing to the top levels of business.
17 Nov 2015
A dressing down for dress down Friday
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
A lot of men seem to have decided it's time to discard the tie for work. Yet, in most cases, they still wear a suit. Frankly, it just isn't a good look. It is a rare man indeed who can get away with wearing a suit without a tie. Those who can would probably look fetching in a barrel and braces...
02 Nov 2015
The price of perks
Marcia Levinstock | Founder and Managing Editor of Content, Primary Ideas
One of the first questions we ask when we first meet someone is “What do you do?"
14 Oct 2015
'Gut feel' leadership is dead
Amanda Gome | Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Recently one of the smartest executives I know, who is always ahead of trend curves, looked at me bewildered. “I can't keep up anymore," he said. “I don't know how."
14 Oct 2015
Creative approach required for jobs of the future
Peter Booth | Provost and Senior Vice President, Sydney University of Technology
Australia's largest trading partner, China, has a strategic focus to shift from 'Made in China' towards 'Designed in China'. Australia's 4th largest trading partner, South Korea, has established 17 major innovation centres in 17 major cities across the country to quickly develop its creative economy and creative industries.
25 Sep 2015
Your leadership strategy needs to change
Martin Reeves | Senior Partner, The Boston Consulting Group & Director, Bruce Henderson Institute
It's no secret the pace of change today is head-spinningly fast. The stakes are higher than ever: one third of US public corporations will not survive the next five years. In the declining number of industries that remain stable and predictable, the classical approach to strategy and leadership taught in business schools still applies.
18 Sep 2015
From noodle-shop floor to career banker
Ayesha de Krestser | BlueNotes contributing editor
It's often said Lady Luck plays a rather large role in determining those who make it in life and those who do not. Luck though seems to never have played a role in the life of May Khansyla - yet that hasn't stopped her being named one of the United Nations' most inspiring women.
19 Aug 2015
Don't fight flexible work. It's productive. And it's already here.
Susie Babani | Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
A couple of months ago the CEO of my company declared all roles should be flexible. We've had policies on flexible working for a number of years but usage was sporadic and very much depended on a “Leadership Lottery” - if you had a leader who "got it" then flex was just part of the day to day norms and no big deal.
17 Aug 2015
How to get digital in your company's DNA
Andrew Grill | Global Managing Partner, IBM Social Consulting
Ask yourself this question - is digital in your company's DNA? If the answer is 'no' or even 'not really' then this story is for you.
13 Aug 2015
What APac's banker of the future needs
Leigh Cohen | BlueNotes contributing editor
Of all the industries facing disruption brought on by the technology and social media revolution, banking is one of the most affected. Across the world fintech is changing the game, customers and non-bank attackers are shifting the battlefield and traditional corporate cultures are being forced to evolve.
05 Aug 2015
Stop asking women to change
Pam Rebecca | Former General Manager of Digital ANZ
Acceptable wisdom seems to be that for women to be taken seriously as business leaders they should only speak on business issues and studiously avoid addressing the so called work-life balance or the challenges of juggling a career and a family.
31 Jul 2015
Five workplace pregnancy tips for mothers (and another five for managers)
Andrew Medard | Founder and Managing Director, amge+
One of the most delicate challenges for female employees and all managers is pregnancy and maternity leave. Sadly it has become a taboo topic women feel they can't be open about and one many managers are afraid to raise with employees.
29 Jul 2015
How to succeed with CEO succession
Jonathan Harvey | Former Group General Manager Executive Development, ANZ
Recently an iconic Australian company, Woolworths, has had its approach to succession planning scrutinised in the public domain as a result of the sudden resignation of its chief executive. That's hardly the first time succession has been under the microscope, indeed there's been several instances since, both here and offshore.
29 Jul 2015
Why we all must be champions of change for gender equality
Mike Smith | Former Chief Executive Officer, ANZ
Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to present Serena Williams the winner’s cheque after she won the Australian Open final for a sixth time. What made it particularly satisfying was that the cheque was for the same amount as Novak Djokovic’s the next evening.
24 Jul 2015
Australia's education gravity shift to Asia
Suzette Corr | Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
It was a while ago, but I often tell colleagues that as a student at the University of Western Australia I was more likely to be sitting in an economics lecture next to a peer from Asia than I was another woman from Australia.
20 Jul 2015
How to tell if you're a good leader – or a bad one
Leon Gettler | Veteran and highly regarded management journalist
What exactly makes a great leader? What are the qualities of a superb boss? These are important questions because what worked 20 years ago will no longer cut it in today's workplace.
13 Jul 2015
The ageing elephant is an advantage
Bruce Hassall | CEO, PwC New Zealand
An ageing population is one of the key megatrends affecting New Zealand, Australia and most other developed countries. Like most megatrends it's often viewed as a threat, an ageing elephant in the room.
10 Jul 2015
Sleep well, sweet dreams – and career success
Marcia Levinstock | Founder and Managing Editor of Content, Primary Ideas
Those of a certain age may well remember one of those slightly twee advertising campaigns for breakfast cereals asking “How many do you do?”. It referred to the number of healthy Weet-Bix in your breakfast bowl each morning.
30 Jun 2015
Five ways social media is shattering the glass ceiling
Amanda Gome | Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
High-profile recruiter Heidi Mason knows who's who at the top end of business. As managing director of Russell Reynolds Associates she often meets with major companies to discuss candidates for executive and non-executive roles in the financial services industry. One of the key attributes she looks for these days is digital experience and capability. Social media is a key part of that.
23 Jun 2015
How we can all help fill the female talent pool
Marion Fulker | CEO, Committee for Perth & Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, University of Western Australia
Gender equality is a hot topic nationally and internationally at the moment. In my experience, a discussion about diversity in any form quickly becomes a conversation about gender and this is probably because we haven't yet created an equal playing field for 51 per cent of the Australian population.
19 Jun 2015
The little things we can do to get more girls in STEM
Sarah Chronican (nee Harland) | Former General Manager Technology, ANZ
The push to increase the representation of women in technology has come a long way but a repositioning of ideas around education could help improve the situation, according to the managing director of Twitter in Australia, Karen Stocks.
19 Jun 2015
Gender balance in boardrooms – canapés or childcare?
Catherine Fox | Journalist and author
It was hard to ignore the talk of paid parenting leave and childcare costs in Australia with federal budget announcements about changing the system and those calls to stop 'double dipping' from employer childcare schemes.
28 May 2015
How do we fix IT's gender problem?
Scott Collary & Maria Garcia de la Banda | Former Chief Information Officer & Deputy Dean Information Technology Faculty, Monash University
The IT industry has a gender diversity problem which starts at the critical education level where enrolments at schools and universities have stagnated. So what can be done about the issue and who needs to act?
20 May 2015
Benevolent bias - a new way of making poor people decisions?
Susie Babani | Former Chief Human Resources Officer at ANZ
I have an hypothesis about the glass ceiling. It is not, as is generally assumed, something women suddenly bang their heads against after 25 years of hard slog, ongoing promotions and successful performance in the corporate world - causing us to just be pipped from the very top jobs.
14 May 2015
How good leaders make hard decisions
Zeger Degraeve | Dean, University Melbourne Business School
For 11 consecutive years, a high profile American investor achieved 12 per cent return annually for his clients. His reputation attracted investors from all over the world. Year after year, the returns outperformed the market. In 2009, this leading business figure was jailed for 150 years. His name is Bernie Madoff.
05 May 2015
Forget quotas, diversity campaigns are better for women on boards
Amanda Gome | Former head of digital and social media, ANZ
Global diversity campaign 30% Club is launching in Australia, hoping to lead the nation's most influential company directors in a push to see women make up 30 per cent of ASX 200 boards by 2018.
15 Apr 2015
A Note from the BlueNotes Publisher...
Paul Edwards | Manager Operations Strategy, ANZ
We have been publishing BlueNotes for a year and it has been an extraordinary venture. But not just for us here at BlueNotes, more broadly in the world of communications – of all hues.
08 Apr 2015
Performance alone won’t get you ahead
Jonathan Harvey | Former Group General Manager Executive Development, ANZ
I first came across David Thompson on a business trip to London. A book he co-authored, Trust Unwrapped – A story of Ethics, Integrity and Chocolate! was in my room with a sticker on the front reading “Take it. We trust you to pay for this book” and a web address.
23 Mar 2015
How do you hire the best - and is it worth it?
Sarah Court | ANZ Head of Human Resources New Zealand, ANZ
'The war for talent' is a phrase that has become something of a cliché but in essence it's true: in competitive industries it's hard to hire brilliant people.
05 Mar 2015
Cracking the confidence code – Time to move on from thinking “you were just lucky”
Suzette Corr | Group General Manager Institutional Human Resources, ANZ
“How many more studies do we need to know that men overestimate their potential and women underestimate theirs –when facts show their performance is on par?"
27 Feb 2015
Virtual leadership requires real leadership
Tareq Muhmood | CEO Korea & Managing Director Global Subsidiaries, ANZ
I recently enjoyed a coffee with a treasurer of a major US firm in Dubai. She is a leader I admire (and in fact I'm trying to encourage her to write the next version of 'lean-in' or 'pull out' :) ).
We became involved in discussing how we both lead virtual teams located around the world and what we have learned.
29 Jan 2015
Decisions are the lifeblood of an organisation
Leo D'Angelo Fisher | Freelance journalist
Managers who can’t make decisions – it seems counterintuitive. Someone can build a management career by not making decisions? But we’ve all worked for them, so we know they exist.