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Gender balance in business

The race is on, for men and women to work together, to unleash the power of gender equality in business, politics, media coverage and wealth across the world. Diversity of thought informs better...

How #MeToo has changed HR forever

As 2018 began drawing to a close, New Zealand was hit with several high profile accusations of toxic workplace cultures. First, it was accusations of bullying by Commissioner for Financial Literacy...

Collaborative teams

Many collaborative teams work together frequently but can spin off to other projects and collaborations when necessary. Building collaboration into teams allows team members to push each other to...

Beating the bullies

Ask any foreign visitor about the areas in which New Zealand leads the world, and you’re unlikely to hear “bullying” in the top ten. But that might be luck rather than a reflection of reality. In...

Beyond engagement

Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, engagement was heralded as the answer to every organisation’s challenge. Highly engaged employees equalled better business performance and companies all...

Checking the pulse

Digital disruption is reshaping the HR landscape, creating new opportunities for those organisations that are ready to transform. The most exciting are new digital HR tools that extend the influence...

What is this thing called workplace empowerment?

It’s clear that empowerment is one of today’s great positive buzzwords in management and HR, and creating an empowering culture is near the top of every HR professionals’ agenda. And there’s good...

Attraction and retention of millennials through learning and CSR

As the global talent shortage persists and new jobs are created as fast as others become extinct, business success depends on organisations having an effective career development strategy in place to...

From talent to team: HR’s generational change

As Mohammed Ali finished addressing 2000 graduating Harvard University seniors in 1975 he responded to a call from the crowd to “give us a poem”. Ali paused, locked eyes on the audience member who...

Are you implementing a culture of empowerment in your organisation?

Empowerment in any workplace starts with leadership. It has to because at its essence, empowerment is a transfer of power from a leader in authority to someone lower down in the organisation chart....

A time to reflect, redefine and upskill

Change is constant, we hear, and nowhere more so than in the world of work. A few years back the loss of a job was met with severe consternation by the employee and varying degrees of career...

How to make continuous performance management work?

For many decades in HR, performance management has been centred around annual performance appraisals. These occurred at both the individual level (the dreaded annual review), and the company level...

Anonymity key to overcoming unconscious bias

Diversity and inclusion are priorities for every HR pro today, but too often we shy away from conversations about the biggest barrier to creating more inclusive organisations -unconscious bias. This...

The dictator is dead. Killed by technology.

History can teach us a lot about changing HR practice. The first principle of history is the same as HR -the technology that drives economic activity in any society also dictates the shape of that...

Digital tools create a people-led business revolution

Building workplace cultures where unsafe behaviour is not tolerated

Every organisation should have a zero-tolerance to workplace bullying and intimidating behaviour, and no-one should be put in the position where they dread coming to work. Building a positive culture...

Why the future belongs to HR

There’s been seismic shift in the dynamics driving today’s most successful organisations that is being led by HR practitioners using the technology of our highly networked age. It’s the shift from...

Strengths and weaknesses of New Zealand leaders

Having the ability to measure and analyse aspects of organisation, team and leadership performance, helps us find out what’s really going on. Both large and small company CEOs are often left...

5 tips for transitioning from an engagement Survey to AskYourTeam

In the years before adopting AskYourTeam, we’d been heavily focused on employee engagement at Smith&Smith. While we saw improvements in engagement levels early on, progress had stalled. We wanted to...

Engagement: Does it matter any more?

As an organisational development specialist and a Chartered Fellow of the HRINZ, I'm often asked if engagement is still important. That’s an easy question to answer with two words: ‘Yes’ and ‘But’....

Are you measuring what matters?

As leaders, it’s easy to measure what we're comfortable with, instead of what will actually have the greatest impact on the success of our business. We might measure something that we already...

You don't have all the answers (and that's OK)

Leadership is no longer about the visionary guru leading the charge. That idea belongs to a time when businesses operated in a slower world. The goal was incremental change and increased efficiency....

Why Smart Businesses are Focussing on Performance Before Engagement

The engagement model has been flipped on its head. The traditional way of thinking about engagement is linear - employee engagement leads to improved business performance. But recent research is...

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