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Thinking for Christmas gift ideas and budgeting for Christmas gifts can be challenging! As HR professionals, we understand there’s the Christmas party, potentially slow cash flow during January (in some industries) and the burden of leave loading to consider. However, after working hard during the year, the team deserves some recognition. How do you…

“I can’t sleep at night. I wake up worried I’ve missed something.” Every time I hear it, which is way too regularly, it breaks my heart. What I want for business owners is the confidence that the people side of their business is safe, so they can focus on all the amazing things they are contributing to the world. Yet, every year the employment laws in Australia change and more uncertainty creeps in. Ensuring your business is up to date is essential. Here is our checklist of the biggest…

The art of giving as a small business owner is budgeting for Christmas gifts, which can be challenging. There’s the Christmas party, potentially slow cash flow during January to think about and (in some industries) the burden of leave loading to get your head and budget around. However, after working hard during the year, the team deserves some recognition. How do you reward your employees without getting an overdraft from the bank? Read our tips below for…

When I started Impact HR, I had a vision for how I was going to help thousands of business owners build their dream business; take away the headaches of HR legislation, stop the revolving door of recruitment and perfect high performing teams. Small and medium sized business owners who were tired and burnt out would fall back in love with their…

Tis the season to be jolly because we all love Christmas and the holiday season. As HR consultants, we are often asked to provide professional guidelines to ensure that parties and celebrations don’t turn into incidents. This time of year should be a great time for business, with customers either excitedly spending more or allowing you that time to focus a little more internally on all the things you’ve planned to get done but haven’t had time to do. Your employees are happily looking forward to the…

At this time of the year some businesses experience a ‘ramping up’ of service provision and some a ‘quietening down’ over the Christmas break. Whichever way your business ‘cookie crumbles’ it’s important to consider what your business will be doing over period of Christmas. Transparent communication with your team needs to be a priority. If you have questions about a Christmas shut down, reach out to us. We are here to help you make the right decisions for your…

Start with the holidays! Then add the important personal milestones and build the plan around it. I’ve been running Impact HR for 16 years. And I’ve grown it while I had 2 children and have been through cancer treatments. What I’ve learnt along the way is that planning backwards is essential to stay in love with your business and manage through the busyness. And yes, it is unapologetically different to what you are taught in corporates. As I’ve worked with business owners, I’ve heard so many stories of how…

Planning isn’t about the Plan; it’s about the Questions! The true power behind a Planning Process is not the answers you eventually use to write the plan. It is about identifying the right questions at the beginning of the process. Recently, as I was working with a client on their 2026 plan, it became very obvious that the questions I was asked to think about, were the same ones from last year. What worked? What didn’t? How can we achieve more with…

Hands up if you have hours every week to stop, pause and think strategically? For most of us, we are too busy “doing”, and we don’t take the necessary time to stop, and ask ourselves the important, game changing questions about what is working and what is not. We don’t pause long enough to allow ourselves to set our business and teams up for a great outcome. Without the Pause we get stuck in Groundhog Day. When we don’t Pause, we…