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The benefits of EI include better team engagement, improved company culture, decrease in employee turnover, and high performance driven results. Here are some suggestions on how to develop and practise emotional intelligence in your organisation.
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June 23, 2021
by
Sarah Tobin
Introducing different ways to lead and motivate your team by choosing a leadership style that best addresses the demands of a particular situation. Also suggesting a few things for you to try at home
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May 27, 2021
by
Elle Meredith
Free product, engineering, or business office hours with either Elle or Lachlan in May 2021.
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April 27, 2021
by
Elle Meredith
After decades of working in tech communities while studying and practising leadership, we still don’t have all the answers, but at least we've learned to recognise many of the problems.
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April 26, 2021
by
Elle Meredith, Lachlan Hardy, and Sarah Tobin
Gender and racial pay gaps are still a common problem in the workplace. Having any structure around salaries is a positive thing, even if it is not all full disclosure.
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March 17, 2021
by
Elle Meredith
What does it mean to belong to a group, a team, or an organisation? Belonging is a sense of fitting in or feeling like you are an important member of a group.
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March 05, 2021
by
Sarah Tobin
A quick write up on getting SendGrid to play nicely on Heroku
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February 17, 2021
by
Elle Meredith
When was the last time you felt absorbed in a task or in a state of flow? These days we all feel busier than ever, but at the same time are much less productive. Instead give yourself more space and time
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February 15, 2021
by
Sarah Tobin
Organisations should implement a flatter hierarchy structure, with broadly defined roles, and low power distance culture. Furthermore, organisations should encourage risk tolerance within limitations, psychological safety, availability of resources, flexibility with time, freedom, and autonomy
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February 12, 2021
by
Elle Meredith
There are many benefits to why you should build a distributed team, and with the increasing online tools to enable us to do so, we should embrace the new future of work and increase our overall productivity and happiness
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January 13, 2021
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Sarah Tobin
We have been working on a few new offerings, which we would like to introduce today. Mainly, we have been working on technical leadership coaching, culture and technical workshops, an Associate Developer onboarding program, and codebase reviews.
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November 30, 2020
by
Sarah Tobin
Workshops provide a fun, interactive, open, and collaborative environment for continuous learning and to meet like minded people.
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November 23, 2020
by
Sarah Tobin
Free product, engineering, or business office hours with either Elle or Lachlan during November.
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October 27, 2020
by
Elle Meredith
The hiring process for Qantas Hotels engineering academy in detail
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September 24, 2019
by
Elle Meredith
Suggested online resources to check out when starting with web programming
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September 11, 2019
by
Elle Meredith
Complementary writeup for a talk about how to develop your apprenticeship program
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September 08, 2019
by
Elle Meredith
A rebranding exercise and a reveal of our new logo
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July 02, 2019
by
Elle Meredith
Friendly conversations about concepts and topics we are interested in that intersect with our work
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January 10, 2019
by
Lachlan Hardy
An overview of the Qantas Hotels engineering academy programme
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April 19, 2018
by
Elle Meredith
Would you like to improve team effectiveness and productivity? Got a project you think we can help with? Interested in leadership coaching or engineering training? Basically, want to work with us? Get in touch: gday@blackmill.co and we will be in touch in a jiffy.
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