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		<title>Appeal to employers on mental health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Lindsay McMillan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Lindsay McMillan writes about the appeal to employers on mental health. Click here to read more.
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		<title>The Agony and The Ecstasy</title>
		<link>http://blog.convergeinternational.com.au/?p=153</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Kuti, General Manager People, Culture &#38; Learning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother-in-law is in turmoil. Whittled down from 8,000 hopefuls to a mere 50, he is about to embark on a life-changing experience, otherwise known as MasterChef Australia.
&#8220;So what’s the big drama?&#8221; you may ask. Well, should he survive the first episode, he will be one of 20 aspiring chefs who will be forced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Time to Declare Yourself Bankrupt?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lana Schwartz, Manager Performance &#38; Clients, NSW, ACT and Queensland</dc:creator>
		
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I recently heard a very interesting story from a technology journalist friend of mine. He was discussing the impact emails are having on people’s lives and the lengths people are going to in order to manage this new aspect of their life.
 
He relayed a story to me from a work colleague who after many months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be Productive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Kuti, General Manager People, Culture &#38; Learning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most accurate statements I have read of late is that “great productivity is not about working all the time; it is about being effective when you are working”.  
Believe it or not, the key to being effective when you are working is to make sure you are not working all the time.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of the Age</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Lindsay McMillan</dc:creator>
		
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Phil Ruthven, IBIS World, recently spoke about the changing economy and its impact on households, individuals, business and employees.  A notable comment Phil made was that the average age of Australians is 34.  Thinking about this, the implications are significant in a number of ways.
 

The style of management will need to change to accommodate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why Social Networking Websites Increase Productivity in the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lana Schwartz, Manager Performance &#38; Clients, NSW, ACT and Queensland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Lanaschwartz is excited because she worked out a blog topic to write.&#8221; - Twitter, Friday 20/8/09
 
There are now over 250 social networking sites in cyberspace with the most popular being Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. With the concept of social networking challenging human resource teams globally only few companies have come up with policies on how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Role Models in the Corporate World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Wilson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year we have a spate of young professional sportsmen behaving badly and the ensuing hue and cry about fallen role models. At some point one feels that we need to stop being surprised that highly paid young men with a lot of free time on their hands can deliver any number of permutations on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Wilson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After recently reading the August Management Today produced by the Australian Institute of Management I found myself reflecting on the issues presented in the Management Today annual survey by readers as the top 6 Management Issues. The list included, achieving key objectives, leadership, driving efficiency gains and productivity, managing economic turbulence, motivating staff and achieving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Compassion in the Workplace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Kuti, General Manager People, Culture &#38; Learning</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote to all staff about an article I had read on corporate social responsibility, or “compassion in the workplace”, which is dominant in spiritually intelligent companies who have proven to relate better to their employees and the wider community.
Unilever Asia (a manufacturer of food, homecare and personal products) observed they had almost exploited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counterproductive Work Behaviour</title>
		<link>http://blog.convergeinternational.com.au/?p=124</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lana Schwartz, Manager Performance &#38; Clients, NSW, ACT and Queensland</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the 8th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference held in Sydney and was amazed by some of the recent international research around the area of deviant behaviours. It seemed to correlate to the increase that we have seen in our Manager Assist service being utilised to support managers in difficult situations. As overall [...]]]></description>
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