Updated May 2026 Something feels off with your team and you can't quite name it. Projects keep hitting strange delays. People who used to talk freely have gone quiet. Morale dipped weeks ago and nobody can tell you why. Instead, there's no big fight, no obvious problem, just a slow drag on everything. That drag […]
An employee has just approached you with a request to ‘cash out’ a portion of their annual leave. Roger doesn’t want to take the time off – he just wants the cold, hard cash in this instance. He’s got seven weeks up his sleeve and he’s requested to cash out one week of his accrued […]
How many of you have conducted an exit interview or exit survey as an employee leaves your business? Hmmm, I’m not seeing many hands go up so let’s chat about what the difference is and what you should be doing to get the best results for your business. When an employee resigns, there is a […]
As HR consultants, we know firsthand how crucial documentation can be when managing employees and keeping your business running smoothly. Yes, we know it can be tedious and one of those jobs that you always think you will get to, or you question whether that conversation was important enough to document but trust us when […]
Toxic behaviour in the workplace doesn’t have to be blatant and deliberately in your face types of behaviours to be extremely detrimental to your workplace culture. It can be subtle, the type of behaviour that in isolation you would dismiss as annoying but not necessarily toxic or damaging to your team. These small, seemingly insignificant […]
It’s an incredible feeling to walk away from a workshop feeling inspired and ready to take on the world. It’s the kind of experience that can empower you to make changes to the way you think or act that elevates your leadership skills and can help you take your business and people to the next […]
Bob Dylan sang about “the times they are a’ changing” way back in 1964 reflecting the significant upheaval that was occurring. Sixty years later, change is one of the consistent things about life – just when we think things are stable and we know what is going on, BANG! Change slaps us in the face […]
In our last blog, we talked about the changes coming to casual employment. Casual employment sounds simple. Until you’ve got someone who’s been working the same shifts for a year. Then no one’s quite sure what they are anymore. That’s where this phrase “regular and systematic” comes in. It gets thrown around a lot, but […]
As a Gen X’er heading out into the workforce in the late 1980s, things were very different to the workplaces of 2024. We still had secretaries, the last of the tea ladies were still around, ashtrays on the desk and smoking in the office were perfectly normal, the Coles Cafeteria was still kind of fancy […]
How is it possible that I only just put the last sneaky Christmas decoration away – it had rolled under a cabinet and hidden – but here we are racing up toward the end of another financial year? As this new financial year approaches business owners are faced with the critical task of planning for […]
