The Community services industry in Australia is growing year on year, with thousands of jobs being added across the country in many different areas such as youth work, counselling, social services, individual support and more. This sector in Australia is full of rewarding job opportunities, where employees work to better the lives of the community around them. Choosing a career in the community services sector is a decision to make a positive impact on the world, helping peop

“Maintaining an effective culture is so important that it, in fact, trumps even strategy.”– Howard Stevenson Culture. It’s probably a word you hear often if you follow blogs or read articles on business and management, but what is it exactly? According to Frances Frei and Anne Morriss at Harvard Business Review: “Culture guides discretionary behaviour and it picks up where the employee handbook leaves off. Employees make hundreds of decisions on their own every day, and cultu

Over the past decade, in business circles there has been a marked shift in focus from discussing diversity to diversity and inclusion. Many company's are increasingly recognising that if they wish to experience the benefits of diversity, they need to cultivate not just a diverse workplace but importantly also an inclusive one. There is also growing recognition that leaders have a critical role to play in achieving this – creating workplaces where a diversity of people feel va

Does your company promote a positive work culture? Do you consider yourself a person who acts with kindness and compassion? We spend more time working than we do anything else. It is becoming more important now to pay attention to how we treat each other whether at work, home or at the local shops. There is an increasing body of research that shows how we interact with our colleagues can have consequences on our well-being. Leaders may set the tone; however, it's employees wh

Put yourself in the shoes of other people and it’ll help you understand them and show them compassion; while studies suggest it may be a quality some of us are born with, empathy is also something we can learn and put into practice Having empathy with others can guide your moral development and influence positively your thoughts and decisions. In her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), author Harper Lee writes, “you never really understand a person unti