People Strategy

Have you set your people strategy for 2024?

An effective people strategy is instrumental in your company’s ability to engage, develop and attract top talent. After all, having the right people can have a huge impact on the success of your business. The first layer - What is a people strategy? At its core, a robust people strategy underpins your...

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Why standardised HR frameworks matter

Why standardised frameworks, processes and procedures in HR matter

Despite being a critical part of any business, HR departments are notoriously stretched pretty thin.  And with a raft of changes to the Fair Work Act over the past year, the workload continues to grow. This is why standardising repeatable HR frameworks, processes and procedures is more important than ever before....

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Stay interview

Have you considered a stay interview with your people?

Exit interviews have become an ingrained part of the human resources process, but have you considered conducting a stay interview with your employees? While exit interviews have their place in helping to understand why a specific employee is leaving, introducing stay interviews may well mean you’ll be holding a lot...

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Psychological safety in the workplace

Psychological safety and its impact on performance and accountability

Research by MIT Sloan has shown that toxic workplaces are one of the leading reasons people leave their job. In a toxic work environment, employees are often subjected to behaviour by their managers or colleagues that negatively impacts their mental and emotional health. It’s often termed a psychologically unsafe workplace. What...

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role clarity

Providing role clarity while employees are working remotely – the two most crucial elements to have in place

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else” – Yogi Berra--Perhaps the most important part of maintaining a productive remote workforce is ensuring that everyone knows exactly what they are supposed to be doing, and what outcomes are expected.By people understanding what is expected of...

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Working from Home

The home office set-up of your employees directly impacts business productivity

There is a proven direct link between an employee’s office set up, and their productivity, focus, and well-being. With many more employees working from home than ever before, it is critical that you ensure your remote workforce have a work set-up that supports efficiency and effectiveness. We highly recommend that you speak...

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Why Do I Need to Actively Manage My Employees Performance?

The success of a business is heavily dependent on its employees. In fact, it is almost entirely relient in many ways. Therefore, for your business to operate at its maximum, you must manage the performance of your employees. The idea of employee performance management is more than just making sure that...

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Using OKRs in Your Business to Drive Performance and Results

Effective performance management is essential to growing and scaling your business. It allows you to tap into employees’ abilities, motivations, performance, and – of course – get the results you want. “What gets measured gets done” – Peter Drucker With the right performance management tools and processes, you can ensure your employees,...

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Is it the role, or the person, that is not working out?

Sometimes, it's hard for managers to properly articulate why they want to remove someone from their business. Too often, I have clients from both large and small businesses, calling to saying they've reached their limits with a particular poor performer and they just need to remove them from the business. They're...

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