Panellists offered a plethora of advice for emerging leaders, from being selective about taking on new roles to choosing more than one mentor.
A panel session at The Australian Financial Review BOSS Young Executives Summit in Sydney this week.Melanie Evans, chief executive of ING Bank in Australia, says that early in her career, she benefited from taking on many different roles – perhaps too many – which meant she had to apply herself, learn new technical skills or new business areas and fit into new teams.
“I don’t want to put an age or level on it because I think that’s dangerous. But definitely for the last 10 years, I’ve been much more deliberate and I did start saying ‘no’ to things,” Evans says.From left: Tech Council of Australia CEO Kate Pounder, Sendle co-founder James Chin Moody, NAB chief digital officer Sujeet Rana and Bell Direct CEO Arnie Selvarajah.Arnie Selvarajah, chief executive of broker Bell Direct, says having one mentor is not enough.
“If you’re in business, learning more about the arts, learning more about science, learning more about something that you have no idea about [is important] because it is all connected. “Don’t fear a hierarchy. Don’t fear senior people. They are just people. They don’t have all the solutions,” Parker says.
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