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…
No one has ever chased me down a hall saying, “Can we please deep dive into our Safety Stats” or “I just can’t wait until our next Safety Meeting!” It is more likely the meeting that gets bumped for an unplanned sales call or an extra finance review. While I don’t take it personally, it does motivate me to make Safety exciting, in a good way. At the end of the day, safety is about ensuring our teams get to spend time doing things that are valuable, required and enjoyable at work, so their personal life is filled with potential too. So, what’s included in exciting Safety Stats?
Well, that depends on your…
Many years ago, I worked as the Inhouse HR Manager for an amazing Australian Manufacturing company. We had an outstanding team, and we were growing rapidly. One of the key roles in the business was our Production Manager. He knew his stuff. He knew his team. He knew what the clients wanted. He was an outstanding problem solver. While he was inside the factory walls, his focus on Safety was laser focused. As a HR Manager, he was a great collaboration partner, and we got so…
October is Safety Month. In 2024, 168 people died at work and the number of serious workers compensation claims rose to 139,000 in Australia. Safe Work Australia estimates that workplace illness and injury cost the economy more than $30 Billion annually. That is why, even if you feel like WH&S is not important in your business, you really need to take it seriously. And why you need to be talking about it regularly. I recently learned about the “Vomit Test” when listening to a podcast by Abbie White as she interviewed Matt Jones of Four Pillars Gin. The idea is simple, if you haven’t…
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