Attracting, retaining and reattracting the right people for your workplace costs infinite dollars and endless hours. By changing up your interview questions you can start to discover what someone really thinks and how they might really behave . . . Impression management is the term we use to describe putting our ‘best self’ forward –…
Category Archives: Human Resources
Are you guilty of poking fun at soft-skills?? For decades they’ve been harassed and bullied “who are you – you’re not as important as skills!”, name called ‘warm & fuzzy’ and sent packing when it comes to recruitment selection & competencies and skillsets. AT last – 2023 is their year and they’ve come roaring to…
Struggling to sleep after a long day? Having difficulty getting up for work in the morning? Feeling like there’s no point to your work? Snapping at people around you? It could be burnout. There’s a certain amount of work-related stress in our lives, but burnout is different. It’s a more serious type of chronic stress. It…
A healthy, enjoyable work environment creates a healthy, productive business. Make work more enjoyable, more rewarding and less stressful by sticking to ‘The New York Manifesto’. PRESUME PERMISSION – assume the permission to be flexible; people do their best work in different ways and at different times of the day. 40 HOURS IS ENOUGH – working longer…
Who the hell can afford a dedicated Human Resources person when you only have 5 staff???? HR has become a minefield of problems, extra work load, legislation, Awards, and paperwork, paperwork, paperwork . . . . And it feels like every day we hear about another person being fined for underpaying their staff. Quite often…