Tips for Employers
Is My Team Motivated to Perform or Just Motivated?
Having highly motivated staff doesn't necessarily translate into high performance, according to engagement experts. Work-related frustration can compromise effectiveness and efficiency, even when an employee is undeniably enthusiastic about...
Wage Increase Just Won’t Cut It
The most successful companies and ones people long to work for often have a wide variety of ways keeping their staff happy and often it is anything but dealing with compensation. There are plenty of different benefits a company can provide...
Hire the Right Talent
As the applications for an advertised vacancy arrive, how can your business be sure to pick the right talent for the job amongst all those applicants? Two highly recommended staff recruitment practices are “Reference Checking” and “Behavioural...
Social Media in a Workplace
Social media is not going away any time soon, and now it is becoming more and more integrated at the workplace. Sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Myspace are used by millions of people around the world in both their personal and...
How to Keep Staff Engaged and Fulfilled
Managers play a key part in keeping staff engaged and fulfilled in the workplace and are also key in retaining staff. Engagement has been defined as a persistent state of work fulfilment, which then translates into enthusiasm and passion for the...
Be Savvy or Be Vain – CV Reading
Reading a resume is literally just reading a piece of marketing material that has been created by the applicant to convince you to interview them. This is the part of the entire hiring process where you have the least amount of data and have to...
HR Wisdom – March 2012
We hope you enjoy this month's edition of our newsletter, which provides you with HR, OHS and employment advice. Click here to view Newsletter online In this month's edition: WHS - Safety Induction Program Legal Wisdom with Travis Sturgeon...
7 Key Traits of an Aspiring Leader.
Strong leaders tend to comprise of certain personality traits which allow them to rise through challenges, bring back a drowning company, or instil a sense of confidence and energy among employees. There seem to be seven personality traits are...
Gen Y – Strike the note
There has been a lot of discussion that Generation Y, the newest generation to enter the workforce, are difficult to work with and please, yet by just understanding their different values, goals and ideas of the workplace will help you and your...
The importance of inducting new employees into your workplace
It is important that all new employees receive induction training at the beginning of their employment and that they are provided with all the equipment and information necessary to carry out their jobs effectively. Induction programs can vary from training or mentoring, can be conducted by HR and/or the department manager