A poll in 2019 showed that 43 per cent of those aged 18 to 24 viewed climate change as the biggest problem facing Australia. This number is on the rise…
Mental health may have spent many years shrouded in mystery and stigma, but in recent years, it has been brought to the front of the world’s mind and rightly so.…
Since Andrea graduated from university four years ago, she’s held no less than five jobs. Each time she starts a new one, she thinks: this has to be it. This…
As we gather around family and friends at this time of the year, here are some of my thoughts – an A-Z Leader’s Guide – on creating a meaningful 2021.…
I wrote this article based on the years of questioning I get from clients. How did it get its name? If you are like me, you probably think that outplacement…
In the first two parts of this series on laying off staff in a post-COVID environment, I looked at how to navigate the challenging task of remote lay-offs with sensitivity,…
In part one of this series, I explored how to minimise the negative impact of having to lay off staff remotely rather than in-person – a sad reality of our…
In pre-COVID times, the idea of using remote communications to inform staff they were being let go would have been akin to dumping your partner via text – highly impersonal,…
Over the last several months we have seen many of our clients deal with the difficult reality of shutting down their businesses. Time after time we have seen employers doing everything…
2020 has been a challenging year, to say the least. Companies and organisations have been faced with unprecedented challenges as a result of wide-scale lockdowns. Businesses have been forced to…
Leaving a role is not a decision taken lightly by most employees. It requires undertaking the offboarding process as well as embracing the onboarding process as they pursue a new…
Working as a career coach, I am in a position of working with people in a variety of different circumstances. Some are facing offboarding, redundancy or outplacement, while others are…
There’s no doubt that we are living in some interesting times – economically, these are some very risky times and, on many levels, they are unchartered. It’s easy to see this…
Naturally, organisations go through different cycles and stages – sometimes needing to hire a large volume of employees, other times needing to farewell employees due to restructuring or redundancy. It’s…
As a career coach, I’m often speaking to people who are at a crossroads when it comes to their career. They want to be ready for what’s next but often,…
As a career coach, I come across many different kinds of organisations who have a variety of different programs in place to support their employees. From onboarding to offboarding and…
In my time as a career coach, I engage with many people who have reaped the benefits of outplacement programs, as well as many others who haven’t been provided support…
Many employers are facing more exit interviews than they would like as employees decide to leave. To help them to mitigate the risk of needing to go through offboarding processes…
While many employers are facing the prospect of exit interviews as they offboard employees and engage outplacement services, there is one thing organisations can do long before an employee is…
As a career coach, I meet with many different people from many organisations, facing many different kinds of challenges from onboarding to offboarding and everywhere in between. Through the last…