Did you know that in Australia, more employees resign on January 31st than any other day of the year? Just as you are settling back into to work and striving to achieve targets, your business is sideswiped by an (unexpected?) resignation. Now rather than focusing on the future, you are focused on recruitment and facing months of training to get…
“But I had it all planned out in my head!” is a comment we hear regularly. As business owners and managers, we spend our time developing a great plan. And then… someone resigns, a client requires more work, or less work, there is a legislation change etc. etc. Our great plan has a hole in it. And that hole needs to be filled, and filled fast. I love a quote from Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder. He said, “No plan survives first contact with…
Failure to Plan, Is Planning to Fail is a famous quote from Benjamin Franklin. Depending on the size of your business you will most likely have a Strategic Plan, a Financial Plan and a Marketing Plan. You many have client plans and operational plans as well. To achieve our goals, we spend a lot of time thinking about and planning for how we achieve success. What do all those plans have in common? They need PEOPLE to deliver them!!! So, do you have a People Plan? A People Plan covers the six essential…
January is such a POWERFUL month! There is potential dripping from every interaction, email and decision. So, with all of this powerful potential around us, why is it that so many of us get to the end of the quarter, look back and wonder why we are in the same position as we were last year?
Ensuring your best year in 2025 is all about being ahead of the trends. Today’s workforce is hugely diverse with 4 generations (Baby Boomers to Gen z) working alongside each other. HR needs to be creative, compliant and caring. With this in mind, we are sharing our thoughts on 2025’s HR trends for small…