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A Chat With Andrew Barnes

A Chat With Andrew Barnes

What I would tell my younger self – harnessing lessons from the past to lead into the future. Andrew is a self-made, down-to-earth, charismatic powerhouse. While he is rumoured to have spent a summer playing the guitar for a pint in local pubs in his youth, his career...

Learn To Be An Outstanding Leader Even In Difficult Times

Learn To Be An Outstanding Leader Even In Difficult Times

It’s tough being a leader, especially when curveballs like COVID keep getting thrown your way. Trying to do more with less and lead a team through times of uncertainty is hard – but you’re not alone. Leaders across the country are in the same position and that’s why...

Getting a grasp on finance as a non-financial manager

Getting a grasp on finance as a non-financial manager

It’s no secret that if you get promoted to a leadership role, you’ll be expected to manage staff, meet team objectives and manage the budget. However, more often than not, newly appointed managers get very little training and are often thrown in at the deep end when...

Health and Safety FAQ’s

Health and Safety FAQ’s

Your safety and the safety of the IMNZ team is our top priority, along with delivering a great learning experience.  We are working directly with our venues and have implemented the Ministry of Health’s guidelines on best practice health and safety procedures under...

COVID-19 Update: IMNZ AND ALERT LEVEL 1

COVID-19 Update: IMNZ AND ALERT LEVEL 1

At IMNZ, we continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 situation.  Our top priority is the health and safety of our learners, which is why we have robust health and safety processes in place.  Our public courses continue to run for all locations across New Zealand. ...

Why you should never stop learning

Why you should never stop learning

Some of the most successful, influential, and busy people in the world, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey have one thing in common- they never stop making time to learn. Our capacity for learning is infinite, so why do many of us stop prioritising...

Health & Safety During Level 1

Health & Safety During Level 1

    Your safety and the safety of our team is our top priority, along with delivering a great learning experience. We are working directly with our venues and implementing the Ministry of Health’s guidelines on best practice health and safety procedures...

Building Resilience

Building Resilience

Resilience is the coping mechanism you must learn to help you manage stress. Whatever the cause of your stress, your task is work out your personal strategies to foster the resilience which will help you through your tough times. Eighteen months ago I had a...

How to Increase Performance in your Employees

How to Increase Performance in your Employees

It’s no secret that mindfulness, the quality of present moment awareness, is a powerful force for positive change. What was once a practice reserved for the spiritual has now become essential in mainstream life. Today, mindfulness practice has stretched beyond our...

What Level 2 Means for IMNZ

What Level 2 Means for IMNZ

As New Zealand enters Alert Level 2 on Thursday 14th, we are excited to announce that our public workshops will be available from June onwards.   Bookings for public workshops available from June onwards under Alert Level 2 If you’d like to make a booking, we are open...

Health & Safety During Level 2

Health & Safety During Level 2

Your safety and the safety of our team is our top priority, along with delivering a great learning experience. We are working directly with our venues and implementing the Ministry of Health’s guidelines on best practise health and safety procedures under Alert Level...

Managing a team while working from home

Managing a team while working from home

How can you help your team stay connected and productive? Dealing with COVID-19 is new territory for us all and the NZ government has now instructed non-essential workers, to work from home. For many people though, working from home is a whole new experience. So how,...

Tools to Help Your Team with Working from Home

Tools to Help Your Team with Working from Home

If you’re among the many who’ve had their work-worlds flipped upside down, adjusting to the new way of working remotely can be challenging, especially if you’re leading a team. While working from home might sound leisurely, it takes strong communication, leadership...

How to Lead Through a Crisis

How to Lead Through a Crisis

In times of crisis, we look to the leaders we respect for guidance and reassurance. In your personal life, you might look to leaders like Simon Sinek, Jacinda Ardern, or David Attenborough to ease your experience of a crisis as you search for certainty and answers. In...

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