You are being judged. How to make a good first impression?

Before you state your credentials, hand over your CV or sit down in the conference room chair, your abilities are being assessed. Research has shown that within one tenth of a second, your likeability, competence, trustworthiness and aggressiveness are being evaluated.

Interviews can be an intense and artificial way of measuring whether you will be a good fit for a role... so it's important to learn how to put your best foot forward in the process and increase your chances of getting hired.

Q: How long is the ideal workweek?

Meetings are supposed to help groups get things done, faster, but they’re taking over schedules, budget, and creative power. Decades of studies have shown that meetings are draining both time and money (Romano & Nunamaker, 2001).

At MCI we pride ourselves on being a high quality national vocational training institute. Our wide variety of awards (33  in 12 years) is testament to that.  See our awards here

By Dr. Denise Meyerson

Why is it that we are still discussing why women are not more highly represented in higher management and leadership roles? It is really time to move past a conversation that has been happening for a good 10 years – that I can remember. Enough! Time for women in leadership roles to take matters into their own hands and to be totally proactive in setting the tone and the pace for their careers.

MCI Institute has been recognised as an ABA100 Winner for Business Innovation in The Australian Business Awards 2016.

"LEGO Serious Play, Gamestorming, immersive story-based learning and now in 2016, MCI has been recognised as an ABA 100 Winner for Business Innovation in The Australian Business Awards.

By Kristoff Barnowicz

We’re reading more than ever before on screens. From news to learning resources, text delivery over the web is not only allows information to be shared quickly, but to be searched, dug out, and consumed so easily. Even this very piece is yet another example of online text.

Managing all these varied sources can get complicated, however. There’s Pocket for saving webpages for later. Evernote for clipping segments of a page. And RSS readers like Feedly which allow you to constantly check in on regularly-updated content like news.

You probably have that friend that seems to have their headphones glued to their ears. The only time you see them take their headphones out is to give you a recommendation to a podcast you absolutely, most definitely, must listen to. I know because I’m that guy. I smile dopily on the bus to and from work to my comedy podcast of choice. I shed tears whilst cooking and pass it off like it’s just the onions and not the gripping story I’m listening to. I plug in on my lunch break to expand my knowledge. With the first season of the podcast Serial cracking a million downloads, interesting podcasts can no longer be ignored.

It can be a jungle out there. 'The Office' starring Ricky Gervais (UK) and Steve Carell (US) is a hit because its antics hit close to home for so many corporate professionals. Here are some serious tips for surviving the animal kingdom of your office

People like wine, scotch, cheese. All get better with age. But my memory never does. Couple this with the ever-increasing amount of things I want to remember and an annoyance becomes a problem. But it’s not a problem anymore. Because now I use Evernote.