• CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

    It seems to me that much of the focus of HR in dealing with workplace issues is often punitive. It’s all about investigating incidents, collecting evidence, formulating allegations and searching for breaches of the code of conduct or xyz policy. It’s about hitting people with some sort of sanction for not following procedure, issuing a… Read more

  • ASPIRE TO BE THE LAZIEST MANAGER

    ASPIRE TO BE THE LAZIEST MANAGER

    Congratulations you’ve been promoted and you now have a team of people working for you. It’s important to remember though that it is no longer your job to do the work yourself, instead you are charged with looking after the people who do the work. That’s going to take some getting used to right? The… Read more

  • BOSSES BEHAVING BADLY

    There is an interesting shift going on at the moment. More and more people are coming forward and reporting their bosses for bad behaviour. Read more

  • EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS PROBABLY NOT THE PROBLEM

    EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT IS PROBABLY NOT THE PROBLEM

    Many organisations conduct annual employee engagement surveys to track the level of ‘engagement’ in the workforce.  The metrics will be based on a range of survey questions asking how people feel about their supervisor, their career development prospects, the recognition they get, the organisational mission, vision and values, and the performance of the executive team. … Read more

  • OKAY… NOW WHAT DO I DO?

    OKAY… NOW WHAT DO I DO?

    There is a statistic floating around the internet that we make around 35,000 decisions a day.  Seems like a lot doesn’t it?  These include unconscious decisions that we don’t even think about, like which hand will I use to brush my teeth this morning? Will I turn right or left out of my driveway this… Read more

  • DO WE NEED TO MEET OR IS AN EMAIL OK?

    DO WE NEED TO MEET OR IS AN EMAIL OK?

    These days we tend to communicate online a lot of the time.  Anyone with a young person in the family will know that the portable supercomputer they call a phone and keep on them at all times of day and night is NOT for making phone calls.  It is for tweeting, snapping, gramming, TikTok, WhatsApp,… Read more