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Limiting bureaucracy and empowering employees at all levels is driving growth and retention at an organisation looking to double in size over the next few years.

A commitment to professional development and following up on actionable plans is helping Marriott International retain and advance more employees than its competitors, according to its head of HR.

Flawed implementation of the 70:20:10 framework could be compromising its efficacy and causing "inappropriate behaviours" to spread, new research suggests.

Leadership selection and development methods are ripe for overhaul using emerging areas of neuroscience, an international expert says.

Reports of shortening attention spans may be overstated, but workplace learning still faces new challenges when it comes to engaging employees, says an expert in the field.

A deep understanding of how employees learn should be at the centre of people management as digitalisation drives the need for agile skills development, according to a performance expert.

Awareness is growing that leaders need to work on all aspects of their life, not just the professional, to be more successful at work, but "we still have a long way to go", says an acclaimed leadership expert.

Linking a leadership development program to real-time workplace challenges helps keep engagement high while delivering more benefits to the business, according to a workplace trainer.

The Fair Work Commission will redetermine whether a worker was unfairly dismissed after his employer successfully argued the original hearing denied it procedural fairness. Also in this article, calls for more skills investment in the Federal Budget; mind performance training becoming mainstream amid increasing work pressures; and more.

Despite being the top company graduates want to work for, PwC expects to provide extensive on-the-job training to new hires and therefore prioritises learning ability far above academic achievements, its head of talent says.