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Holidays improve performance

Annual holidays are often our best chance to spend real quality time with our families and friends and to remember that most of us work to live not the other way around.

Elisabeth Easther: In search of a future

When her career took an unexpected turn, Elisabeth Easther consulted a career counsellor for advice.

High skill levels needed for trades

Tom O'Neil: Learning not to be scared of success

Paul Charman: Beware the charismatic ning-nong

Preparing students for the real world

Failure made me a better leader

A negative experience can stimulate enlightenment; it can reveal the best way forward and motivate you towards it

Creative skills = global opportunity

Not so long ago, parents of a teenager wanting to be an artist or a musician would tell them to get a real job but that perception has changed

This is what engineers actually look like

It all started when a "self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd, anime-lover, college dropout" wrote that she was tired of stereotypes.

Are you a perfectionist in the office? Beware of burning out

Workers who strive for perfection may not always make the best employees.

Chris Till: Time to put the human back into HR

We need to return to a leadership land where we put people ahead of money, short-term opportunism and pure shareholder interest, writes Chris Till.

Career path changing for CIOs

Chief information officers can no longer be boxed in as IT managers, and their rise in the organisation is changing their career path.

Bill Sole: NZ needs more apprentices

Urgently, we need to increase the availability and scope of apprenticeships to meet the changing demands of our economy.

Workplaces weather the storm

The workplace can be a breeding ground for stress. Deadlines, performance reviews, restructuring; employees are often faced with big issues they feel are beyond their control.

'Part-time' tired tool of the future

Employees are asking for it, organisations are formalising it, and there are clear business benefits for the part-time professional role, but how do you make it work successfully in your organisation?

Tom O'Neil: Story-telling powerful way to get message across

Kevin Bowler is chief executive of Tourism New Zealand, the Crown Entity responsible for growing the $10 billion international visitor market for New Zealand.