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Welcome to the Leadership Skills Australia Community, a place for Australian executives and managers to connect with practical, evidence-based advice about how to handle a host of challenges that you face in your leadership role.

“Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other”
—John F. Kennedy

You can enhance your impact as a leader. Doing so helps you, your staff, your company and your clients. All it takes is a commitment to getting better at your craft every day. In fact, a recent report in Harvard Business Review found that a failure to learn is a common cause of career derailment—something you definitely want to avoid.

Yet, while there is no shortage of books and advice on the subject, much of it is peddling the latest unsubstantiated fads, many of which have little grounding in evidence at all. At the other extreme are academics whose views on leadership are well grounded, yet too abstract and impractical to be of much use to practising managers.

The articles and resources that you will find in our Leadership Skills Australia community fill this void. Here you will find practical advice that you can trust. In our sidebar at the right-hand side of this page you can:

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