Our traditional patterns of where and how work is completed were turned upside down in 2020. Many employers were managing a blended environment with team members working between the office and home. Here are some tips to reasonable management performance in this new era courtesy of Aaron McEwans, Advisory Leader at Gartner. As a strategic … Read more
By Heidi Bishop, Senior Consultant, EastCoast HR Group Everyone loves a day out of the office at a training workshop. It’s a chance to get away from your desk, away from the emails or from a pesky routine to enjoy a never ending selection of delicious tea and lunch treats, along with more coffee and … Read more
By Michalle Faulkner, Managing Director Throughout my working career I have spent many years in mentoring roles supporting other business women and new start up business owners and we often talked about and focused on the brand of “you”. Whether you are a business person, a job seeker, or an employee that’s looking for the … Read more
by Heidi Bishop, Senior HR Consultant, EastCoast HR Group. The Fair Work Act provides that the Fair Work Commission must conduct a four yearly review of modern awards predominantly to decide whether or not a particular modern award achieves the modern awards objectives. The decision announced on 23 February, 2017 to reduce in many cases, … Read more
by Heidi Bishop, Senior HR Consultant, EastCoast HR Group. Congratulations to first timers entering the workforce in 2017 and welcome to the reality of gainful employment for the next 40 plus years! A few of us in the office were chatting about how exciting it is for graduates of 2016 embarking on their careers and joining … Read more
As any HR practitioner will tell you, a lot of our time and energy is often spent on conflict be that mediation, dispute resolution or providing performance counselling with employees around workplace behaviours. While this is not a pleasant experience for the employees involved, it’s made much easier when the parties are genuinely self-reflective, can … Read more
It’s recognised in our lives and wider community, that everyone has a diverse, broad and varied definition of “family”. Traditionally speaking, immediate family is your parents, siblings, partner and children and a family can be described as being either nuclear or blended. All family relationships outside of these two – generation unit are more commonly … Read more
How do you feel about initiating difficult conversations? I personally don’t mind conflict if it’s healthy, safe and if it results in positive change. Many people however like to avoid conflict so will often be fearful at the prospect of having “the talk” with employees or colleagues about productivity or workplace related issues. It is … Read more
There is still sadly, a culture within Australia that celebrates and accepts “taking a sickie” as being the norm or employees that have the impression that they have it accumulated so why not take it? Who’s it going to hurt? Well it hurts the hip pocket of business owners to the tune of $33 billion … Read more
“The most successful companies locally are all staffed by motivated people – motivated people are consistently core to high performance” – Michael Rennie, Director with McKinsey & Company. One of the largest contributing costs to thinning the bottom line is the cost of labour – be it, hiring, firing, retirement, poor performance or the unwanted … Read more
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