Training & Development
Influencers & Profiles, Training & Development
From running nightclubs to a holistic business coach: Why Bo Kitty thinks business owners need more tough love
Bo Kitty runs Reality Check, a holistic business coaching service with a focus on giving business owners the tough love they need to succeed.
Training & Development
Is your sales team sinking or swimming?
Selling as a profession is poorly understood, especially when it comes to effectively transferring skills, knowledge and capability to others.
Economy, Training & Development
The female tradie shortage: Why real change requires a major cultural shift
The number of women in the manual trades in Australia has barely budged in the last 20 years.
Finance, Training & Development
Victorian budget: Payroll tax cuts for SMEs and free TAFE training to fill construction blitz worker shortage
Thousands of Victorians will be trained for free under a Victorian budget initiative to fill widening skills shortages, in part created by the government’s election-year construction blitz.
Training & Development
Why Starbucks’ short ‘unconscious bias’ program won’t end racial discrimination at its stores
Unconscious bias training programs at selected organisations alone will not reduce racial harassment and discrimination. Starbucks’ employees will continue to operate in an environment that reinforces racial disparities. How far can the impact of half-day diversity training take them?
Training & Development
Where has the cash from the government’s $1.5 billion Skilling Australians apprenticeship fund gone?
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says it is "unacceptable" that funds from the federal government's "Skilling Australians" fund are not flowing through to the states as planned after the $1.5 billion commitment to apprenticeships was outlined in the 2017 federal budget.
Training & Development
VET funding list met with optimism, but experts say government needs to think about the future of work
Australian employers and students will have time to consider the federal government’s proposed changes of funding to the VET sector this w…
Training & Development
Number of people starting apprenticeships and traineeships down by almost 20%
The number of people starting apprenticeships and traineeships is falling, with 8600 fewer people commencing an apprenticeship or traineesh…
Training & Development
The entrepreneurial journey is a long and personal one
I saw the movie The Intern with Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro in the cinema when it came out late in 2015. It brought tears to my eye…
Training & Development
Privatisation of vocational education isn’t working
Recent weeks have produced various horror stories of the workings of dodgy private providers of vocational education and training, including…
