Workplace Gender Diversity Objectives

 Are you measuring your Gender Diversity Objectives? Having a diverse workplace better enables an organisation to provide the best service to its customers. It enables it to foster greater innovation, stronger problem solving capability, increased motivation and engagement. On 30 June 2010, the ASX Corporate Governance Council released the Amended ASX Principles and Recommendations, which [...]

Virtual Learning – Business development and career courses for remote areas

The virtual workplace, in which employees operate remotely from each other and from managers, is a reality for many employers now. Especially with a company that has national and international locations, employees are not only in another state but another country from each other. This means that how we work with each other has evolved [...]

Successful Business Women Case Studies

The Xplore Unexpected Women Series We are pleased to be able to share with you a series of articles on women that have forged successful careers in areas that are not typically female oriented. These women have shown great determination and perseverance to follow their career path and have a really inspiring story to tell. [...]

Blended learning approach breaks down barriers

In early 2012, Kineo and e.learning Age, worked together to produce an annual e-learning insights report, researching leading companies in order to explore the trends and challenges being faced by L&D departments. One of the trends is that companies recognise that designing and delivering formal courses is a critical task although now these courses are [...]

Equity of access to learning for today’s workforce

Today’s diverse workforce has access to learning from wherever they are located. In order to meet leadership and business training needs efficiently, virtual learning has become more in demand, the objective being to maximise participant learning whilst minimising time away from the job. Businesses need solutions that allow their employees to work at their own [...]

Support Dress for Success for International Women’s Day

  This year’s theme for the International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March is The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum . Celebrating the achievements of women while remaining vigilant and tenacious for further sustainable change. By getting involved with an organisation like Dress for Success Sydney you are supporting disadvantaged women to create their own success. [...]

The Xplore Mobile Application

In the next few weeks we will be launching our new mobile application. It is our aim to give you as much access to our knowledge bank as we can wherever you are, day or night! So, we have come up with an application that has some handy tools for keeping your career on track. [...]

Workshop Diversity Survey results

Thank you to everyone that participated in our Workplace Gender Diversity Survey, the results have given us some great insight into diversity in Australian workplaces. For the question “Which do you believe is most important in improving gender equality in the workplace?” the top responses were: Flexible Working Conditions – regardless of children or not [...]

Look forward to look back

Realising the vision for your career requires goal setting and checking in on those goals regularly to make sure you are on track. The article Living the life you want – not the one you fall into from Xplore’s ebook, talks about setting vision and goals with who you are and what is important to [...]

Unexpected Women Series

We are pleased to be able to share with you a series of articles on women that have forged successful careers in areas that are not typically female oriented. These women have shown great determination and perseverance to follow their career path and have a really inspiring story to tell. The first 4 women in [...]