From the hiring process and onboarding, to outplacement and offboarding, every step of the employee life cycle is important and must be treated with care and diligence. In recent weeks, Elon Musk’s attempts at managing staff have been in the spotlight – in particular,...
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. In Australia, we mark Mental HealthWeek between 9 and 16 October 2021. Mental health has been a big topic...
Redundancies are all too common – it’s one of those unfortunate truths that, sometimes, organisations need to cut jobs in order to restructure and survive in the future. Everyone knows this of course, but it doesn’t make it any easier to compute if it ever happens to...
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 experiences matter most for long-term memories, stories, and impressions. This...
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 a healthy employer brand and reputation which are critical to the ongoing sustainability...