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6 Steps to Living Company Values
What should you do about the high-performing employee who continuously fails to live up to the organisation’s behavioural standards and company values? How you answer
How to avoid unfair dismissal claims
The best way to lessen the risk of an unfair dismissal claim or have a solid defence to a claim are to have valid reasons
The risks of terminating employees
The greatest risk for employers in having to terminate someone’s employment is the employee disputing the termination through one of four methods of claim: Unfair
7 Step Change Management Plan
The most common problem business leaders have when attempting to implement major change across an organisation is that employees are five steps behind them. We’ve
The Benefits of Hiring Older Workers
Do you discriminate (intentionally or not) against older people when recruiting and promoting? Research by the Human Rights Commission shows that age discrimination is ongoing
How to Develop a Comprehensive Induction Process
It might come as a surprise to some, but the most likely time for employee dissatisfaction, low productivity, and turnover to occur is during the
Beware Successful Workplace Psychopaths
The superficially charming, highly ambitious employee (often leader) who pretends to listen attentively while dogmatically doing it their way and treading on whoever to achieve
Cyberbullying at work
I listened to Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk, which is about public humiliation, cyber bullying, and shame in our digital age. My other major take-away from
Why every workplace should have a social media policy
More than 70% of businesses have reported having to take disciplinary action against an employee for misuse of social media. The statistic was gathered from
What Laws Are There Protecting Against Pregnancy Discrimination?
Not for the first time, I had a client call asking for advice around an employee who had recently started with them and just told