The Quiet Season
I'll be honest. As a business owner, I have experienced downturns in business, and regardless of all the pep talks, it's worrying. Not because I don't believe in what I do, or because I'm suddenly questioning years of experience, but because when you're a small...
Are your HR Foundations in your business a bit wobbly?
Every business has its “mystery drawer.” You know the one, that place where random cables, expired access cards, half a stapler, and at least one unidentified key live. It’s chaotic… but technically functional. Unfortunately, many companies run their HR the same way....
5 Proven (and Surprisingly Simple) Ways Leadership Development Boosts ROI
Why better leaders = better business — and how small habits create big results. If you’ve ever looked at a slipping deadline or shrinking margin and thought, “But… everyone is SO busy — how is this still happening?”, you’re not alone. Many organisations bump into the...
Coffee with Ang – It’s not always about the Money…
Grab a cup off coffee and listen to Angie's 5 minute chat on making sure that you don't forget humanity in the event of a crisis - like for example - a global pandemic...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRMy5ZSnZM8
Avoiding the Trap of Avoidance
Have you ever sat before a task and just looked at it? Then looked around and found everything else on or under or around your desk and even other’s desks that you could possibly do except that task? Even filing? And when that’s all done, you come back stare at it...
Employee Relations Pack
The culture of your work environment sets the tone, after all, “The success and failure of any organization is directly proportional to the effort put in by each and every employee”. The culture of your company can either uplift and motivate workers, or it can result...
Why Disruption?
The last 14 months have been so very interesting. I have come across businesses that are thriving, doing fine and barely putting one foot in front of the other. In all of them, they have reached out because they have realized that something needs to change, something...
9 Business Lessons from a Teenager and Zip-lining
If you are anything like me, jumping off a perfectly good bridge, platform or building makes no logical sense at all. Is the structure burning? Crumbling? Are we being chased by lions? Zombies? No? Then also.. “No”. Add a profound nausea and tingling legs at the...
3 Ways to avoid the Whirlpool of Performance Review Dread
To review or not to review performance of staff – that is one of the questions being asked by many CEO’s and HRD’s alike (forgive the Shakespearean). For the past several years about six percent of the Fortune 1000 has gotten rid of formal, traditional reviews. Most...
At Last – Someone is willing to say it out loud!
Having worked in various industries in varying sizes of companies over the last 20 plus years and reading articles from various sources, there is a trend that we just can’t seem to break. People management is the role of the Human Resources department. (insert...
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