Jobkeeper has been a wonderful initiative that has enabled many businesses to retain their employment base through the last 12 months or so. It allowed a number of businesses to continue to engage their employees, thereby preventing (or softening) undue stress on the social security systems. The results from the last 12 months in business [...]
The network revolution is here! No ifs, no buts, no choice. If you’re in HR, you are going to be impacted, BIG TIME. How? 70% of roles currently done by your workforce won’t exist in 5 to 10 years' time. 70% of your workforce will be doing jobs in 5 to 10 years' time [...]
Our working world will be turned on its head in the next few years, robots, innovation, progress, you name it, it’s moving at such a rate that it’s conceivable your job won’t exist in 10 years. In the past the companies we worked for were the ones that looked after so many aspects of our [...]
Ever notice how some people sail through life seemingly without a care and others get hooked or caught up on something along the way and appear to be stuck. As Heraclitus said “The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change” and some people have trouble accepting that fact. If Heraclitus said this over 2,500 years ago, [...]
In the wake of the Coronavirus situation, there is a lot of fear and misinformation in the job market right now. I can understand why but it’s not constructive or helpful for those who are looking for jobs. People need real information and they need hope. One of the first pieces of advice when I [...]
There was a time when I knew every single person that I was connected to on LinkedIn personally. I still know about 80% or more. As an experienced coach and the daughter of a master networker, I fully understand and actively promote the importance of connecting and networking. I was raised on the concept and [...]
Really? Well, maybe. The relationship between an employee and his or her employer has a lot of similarities to a romantic relationship. It starts with a spark of interest, there’s a period of courtship and, if all goes well, years of mutually beneficial partnership. Of course it can all go wrong and end in [...]
Have you found a need to restructure your organisation lately? There’s a lot of it going on. There are a number of reasons why you would undertake this daunting task but the two big one’s are: 1. Cut costs (possibly due to a downturn in business) 2. Changing the way to go to market (new [...]
Between 1946 and 1965, 5.5 million people were born in Australia, this is the Baby Boomer demography. That means that this year the first of that group are 72 years old and will be or are already, in a state of requiring aged care support. This represents over 20% of the current population (24 Million) [...]
We’re over in Queenstown at the moment doing some skiing and snowboarding. We were up on the slopes yesterday and started chatting to an elderly gentleman, as it turns out, at 78, he had only learned to ski 20 years ago and his sons, who are now in their 50’s, have just started to learn [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: