Do Your Employees Have Unmet Needs? Why Should You Care?
There are plenty of theories out there about engagement and how to keep your employees performing at their best – it’s a hot topic at the moment as a new…
Do Your Employees Have Unmet Needs? Why Should You Care?
4 Reasons Why Your Employees Are Sleepwalking Through the Day
As a CEO or a business leader it should be clear by now that your people are one of your strongest assets – they get the job done and their…
How to make your employees love you after they leave you
image credit: https://goo.gl/mZOjP3 We all know that the first few seconds are critical in making good first impressions. But research shows that both the most emotional and the last…
It pays to check your candidate’s referees.
Recently Australia’s top rating radio hosts Hamish and Andy, known for their pranks, asked a random person (James) to act as a referee for a person (Tim Barnard) who James…
Applying Disruption Theory to Futureproof Your Career
Clay Christensen became famous by coining Disruption Theory – which concerns how a low cost or smaller industry entrant gains traction in a market and grows to dominance over time.…
How to build buzz ahead of your next planned career move
image credit: http://goo.gl/f5IR8N Rather than being in the same queue as every other job seeker and candidate, it makes a lot of sense to take a proactive approach to…
Job Candidates: you’ve got six seconds… and counting.
image credit: http://goo.gl/O8iW18 If it’s true that career change is one of the 5 most stressful experiences in anyone’s life, then why make it any more stressful than it…
10 Tips on How to Treat Surviving Employees After a Round of Layoffs
Here are 10 best practice tips I advise employers when they are faced with the unpleasant task of retrenching or making their employees redundant. These tips will help to preserve…
Crafting a Compelling Elevator Statement.
image credit: https://goo.gl/depBci An elevator statement is a concise, well-rehearsed summary of your value proposition. Metaphorically, it should be delivered in 30 -90 seconds – the time it takes an…
How to reference check candidates diligently.
image credit: http://goo.gl/4ZgQUj Exaggeration is rife A study of 300 Australian employers found 82% of respondents believed candidates lied or exaggerated their skills and experience on their LinkedIn profiles.…