ABS students in the final year unit ‘Strategic Responses in Business’ competed all semester in a globally run computer simulation, and ranked in the top 7 worldwide in most of the success measures! In this unit, aiming to give the students a simulated business experience, the students managed a computer …
ABS Mentoring Sessional Staff
Wednesday, October 31, 2018Dr Erin Poulton and Associate Professor Lisa Barnes recently attended the Melbourne International Business and Social Science Research Conference 2018. There, Erin presented a paper based on her PhD entitled “Financial Disclosure by Australian Residential Aged Care Providers: Are They Suffering Dementia?” Conference papers can be accessed from the conference …
ABS Head Helps Judge Central Coast Business Awards
Thursday, October 25, 2018The ‘Helloworld Erina Group’ 2018 Central Coast Regional Business Awards were hosted by the Central Coast chapter of the NSW Business Chamber, at Crowne Plaza Terrigal. The evening is about celebrating business excellence in the Central Coast Region. Finalists and award winners across 11 categories celebrated with the evening culminating …
Maybe the Difficult Person is You!
Wednesday, October 24, 2018Perhaps there are no difficult people – only situations in which people seem to us to be difficult. Author Adam Kahane takes a quick look at those situations where we find ourselves having to work with people we consider difficult. He writes about it in a short blog (find it …
ABS Students Represented at UN University Scholars Leadership Symposium
Tuesday, September 25, 2018In mid-June this year, a Humanitarian Affairs representative, Andreena Kardamis contacted Avondale College of Higher Education with the intention of locating students who believe in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Kardamis found Avondale while conducting online research into universities that had a strong emphasis on and involvement with acts of …
Barking Up The Wrong Tree – Book Review
Tuesday, September 18, 2018“Much of what we’ve been told about the qualities that lead to achievement is logical, earnest – and downright wrong.” So claims Eric Barker in his recently released book (2017) ‘Barking Up The Wrong Tree’, published by HarperOne. Essentially Barker is dealing with the premise that ‘What we have been …