#Managing Staff
Conquering chaos: The importance of communication & collaboration in a home/office hybrid workplace
As the pandemic continues to change how businesses manage staff, it’s clear that communication and collaboration are imperative for success…
5 ways to improve retention of millennial employees in your business
Loyalty and engagement aren’t necessarily easy to foster in millennial employees. But with the right approach, any manager can make the workplace a better environment for their staff. Many things affect how successful your business is and how quickly it grows. There are your marketing and sales strategies, the clientele you target, your choice of […]
How to take the stress out of a performance appraisal
Performance appraisals offer significant benefits to a business by ensuring that each employee’s performance is contributing to meeting business goals and introduces a culture of responsibility, accountability and empowerment.
How to get the most from Gen Y workers
Often called the ‘Me Generation’, Gen Y has been tagged by many employers as a group of workers who ‘want it all without having to work for it’.
The right approach to managing redundancies
For many business leaders, the past year has been a matter of holding our breath and waiting for the economy to recover.
How to deliver uncomfortable employee feedback
A leadership expert guides us through three difficult conversations with employees.
How to evaluate your employees
Evaluating employees and paying them what they deserve is one of the most crucial decisions a manager has to make, and is an important part of effectively managing a business.
How to ensure a good candidate experience
When it comes to recruiting new staff for your business, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure your candidates have a positive experience throughout the process.
How to keep employees engaged
The key to developing employees with oomph is communication.
Will staff stick by you through the good times?
Oprah Winfrey coined the phrase What I know for sure. Well, what I know for sure after working in recruitment for 17+ years, is that employees vote with their feet when economies improve after a rough patch.
13 habits of extraordinary bosses
Extraordinary bosses use these habits to bring out the extraordinary in those around them.
Build a winning team dynamic
These seven tips will generate teamwork in any organisation.
You’re not too small to worry about HR
Attracting and retaining the best talent is vital for businesses of all sizes, and ensuring you are up to date with employment legislation is a necessity for all business owners.
What great leaders have that good leaders don’t
The difference between good and great leadership can be expressed in a single word: loyalty.
Make the firing process easier
Firing an employee is likely low on your list of favourite tasks. These tips can help make this difficult situation as easy as possible for both you and the employee.
3 things every great leader gets wrong
Think you’re a great leader? Make sure you aren’t guilty of one of these three reality-distorting traits.
The strengths and weaknesses of your leadership style
How to recognise some of the most common leadership styles and improve on them.
Why employee engagement is good for business
The cost to the Australian Economy of employees who are not engaged by their work is estimated to be $42.1 billion a year. This is pretty staggering isn’t it? What it goes to show is that staff are the linchpin to most, if not all, businesses.
6 reasons layoffs are really dumb
It seems like smart just-in-time staffing: You hire for big projects and then let people go when they wrap up. But here’s why it hurts more than it helps
Need to increase productivity? You must innovate
Many business owners make the mistake of assuming that productivity means working themselves and their employees harder, but putting more pressure on your staff to get more done can actually be counterproductive. When it comes to increasing productivity, what most businesses need is innovation.
My best mistake: Hiring a badly behaved employee
It’s not always easy to find the perfect candidate, but as Rowdy McLean discovered, hiring the wrong one can be seriously detrimental to your business. Here’s how this entrepreneur dealt with the offending employee and turned his misfortune around.
Why ‘no worries’ isn’t the way to approach engagement
Australia really is the Lucky Country, but local businesses need to seize the benefits of the boom by supporting innovation, growing their skilled workforces, attracting investment and increasing productivity. All these goals require a workplace where employees are engaged and motivated – but, engagement doesn’t always sit well with our national persona.
Is it legal to monitor staff on social media after hours?
Not only can your performance at work be monitored, employers are increasingly turning to social media to monitor their staff’s personal behaviour. But what legalities do managers need to be aware of? Here’s a look.
What makes somewhere the best place to work?
We’re used to hearing about the big corporates winning ‘best workplace’ awards but when a small Sydney recruitment firm did it recently, we wanted to know more about how it made the illustrious list.