We are fast approaching that time of year where we reflect on the year that was and set our New Year’s resolutions for the coming year. It’s no surprise that career related New Year resolutions rank highly on people’s resolution priority list and it won’t come as a surprise that many people’s New Year’s resolutions […]
Seek first to understand, then be understood – How to enquire about a job vacancy
How you execute a phone call to enquire about a job you are interested in applying for could see the chances of landing your dream job soar or crash and burn, all in a matter of minutes. If you are making the effort to pick up the phone and find out more (and in my […]
Work on your career; not just in it
You’ve no doubt heard the saying about the need for business owners and leaders to work on the business instead of constantly working in the business. The importance of taking a step back and working on the business instead of just in the business is crucial for success – it allows business owners and leaders […]
Dear Team – Please Enjoy the Christmas Party and Keep Your Job – The Manager
Dear Team We are having our annual Christmas party in mid-December, we want you all to come. I don’t want another Christmas like last year, where I had to spend my Christmas break sorting out some incident that happened at the party. If you don’t want to be in my office in January, arguing about […]
Avoiding Christmas Burnout in the workplace
With Christmas just around the corner, life tends to start getting pretty hectic. For many industries, it’s like the world is going to end and everything needs to done, finalised and complete before we stop for the Christmas break. Customers want to get orders placed before you stop accepting to ensure delivery of products and […]
Movember – Make a difference in your workplace
“The state of men’s health is in crisis. Men experience worse longer-term health than women and die on average six years earlier. Prostate cancer rates will double in the next 15 years. Testicular cancer rates have already doubled in the last 50. Three quarters of suicides are men. Poor mental health leads to half a […]
Is it healthy to create a family atmosphere in the workplace?
Having worked primarily in big business in my early career, I was surprised when I started working with SME’s to find how many describe their culture as being like a ‘family’. The ‘family culture’ obviously has different meanings in each workplace, but the consistent desired values I have seen are: everyone has a personal connection […]
Surviving job rejection as an internal candidate
Applying for a job and being rejected is hard enough at the best of times but when you are an internal applicant and miss out on the job it’s not just hard, it becomes a whole different ball game. However, there can be light at the end of the tunnel if you handle the experience […]
The Position Description – your roadmap to recruitment success
How important and valuable is a Position Description when it comes to recruiting? Many businesses under estimate the importance and value of the position description and in many small to medium organisations, they don’t even exist. When it comes to recruiting, the naïve recruiter or hiring manager thinks that their recruitment process centres around running […]
5 Knee-jerk reactions to avoid when recruiting in haste
An employee has resigned and now it is panic stations. You’ve been given a 2 week or maybe even a 4 week notice period but you know from past experience that running a recruitment process takes time. Time you really don’t have. Your team are freaking out; they’re concerned about who is going to carry […]