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Expert articles, advice and tips in relation to talent attraction, selection, and building productive, safe and fun teams.

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Team of Doers or Performers?

Do you have a team of Doers or Performers? Every team and every organisation will have team members with varying levels of production. If you haven’t already, make sure you watch our “Cart” video, a short film about building a [...]

07
Aug
Can You Even Check Consistency and Accountability, Before Hiring?

Most companies understand the time, effort and cost associated with hiring, training and onboarding new team members. Whilst hiring and developing your team is not cheap, not hiring or not developing your team is more expensive – and what is most [...]

16
Jul
“Feel Good References” – The Horrible Truth

Most likely you have checklists with steps that need to be followed and checked off as they are complete. This helps to ensure nothing is missed whilst successful actions and consistency is maintained. This will also become particularly important as [...]

16
Jul
On the brink of disaster, turns profitable

Have you been in a situation where you felt it was all too late, there was no other solution or you felt the traditional norms had to stay and could not be changed? A $1.7 billion-a-year public enterprise in the [...]

16
Jul
Hiring System Without Resumes

Imagine a hiring system where you don’t even need to look at a resume, but you do get to find out about the return you would get on that investment, and whether it would be a wise decision. Usually when [...]

16
Jul
How Do You Compete With Big Salaries?

Have you ever felt you can’t grow your team because of high salary expectations? Or that you cannot attract the right people because you cannot compete with the companies that can afford to pay higher salaries? One of the key [...]

10
Jun
How to Enhance the Mental Wellbeing of Your Team at Work

When we look at some common denominators that impact our team’s emotional state, mental bandwidth and wellbeing, it is usually related to these three areas: 1) There is something they cannot solve nor put their finger on.2) They are pushing [...]

13
May
Do You Have a Statistics Reporting System?

I presented a webinar a few days ago on how to stabilise your company through your team. The feedback from attendees was that they now felt more motivated with actions to implement now and in the future to enhance the [...]

29
Apr
Always Sell the Challenge – the 3 Ways Small Businesses Can Find the Right Person for the Role

Most business leaders know that their people can make or break a business. But more accurately, it is your “people” strategy. If you have a great product or service, but don’t have the right people who will sell or deliver [...]

08
Apr
What Takes up Most of Your Time and Attention?

What would you do if you had 15 more hours in a week? Would this extra time help you achieve more results? Would it give you the time you need to prioritse your family and do even more of the [...]

18
Mar
This Is Why You Need a Contactless Hiring System

Imagine skiing in the Swiss Alps while having professionally and efficiently  completed several candidate interviews and finding the perfect candidate. Imagine spotting a standout productive candidate out of fifty applications, after the most beautiful and fun time with your kids. [...]

04
Mar
Enron and Volkswagen – What’s the Common Denominator?

Most likely you know about the Enron scandal in 2001 that led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation and imprisonment of the former CEO, and more recently the Volkswagen Diesel scandal where it has been found that some of [...]

04
Mar
How to Effectively Use the Probationary Period | What to Do Before Hiring

The probationary period is set by the employer in the employment contract and is usually a 3 or 6 month period in which both the new team member and company can terminate the employment for any reason by providing as [...]

26
Feb
Save Time and Make the Right Choice for Your Hiring

Some companies hiring now will experience higher than usual number of candidates applying. This is in particular the case for roles that are already a bit popular. This has caused some Hiring Managers to switch off their ad after a [...]

19
Feb
When is it wrong to promote someone?

When is it wrong to promote someone? As business owners, executives or leaders of teams, you generally place yourself under the pressure to perform and we know we will get further when we have an effective team who will achieve [...]

12
Feb
Cost of Bad Hiring Decisions Runs High

A Harvard Business Review pointed out that as much as “80% of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions”. The article said “It can cost on average one-third of a new hire’s annual salary to replace him or her and those [...]

05
Feb
Brace for Impact! Where did you go wrong?

As a leader, it is important to always recognise the source in good times, and the bad. When everything’s going right and you’re succeeding – what is the cause? and when stats crash – what changed? Where did it go [...]

29
Jan
How long before you spot the bad hire? (and how to find the right fit)

New research has found that half of small or medium-sized Australian businesses are settling for hiring “okay” employees. Industry experts and small-business owners are arguing that it is time to change that. A business can only be as successful as [...]

22
Jan
What is the true cost of taking shortcuts?

What is the true cost of taking shortcuts? Recently I shared with you the disaster that Volkswagen had found itself in. Volkswagen were slow to release details at first but now seem to be telling the full story. The problem [...]

22
Jan
CLASSIFICATION OF PRODUCTIVITY—20% MAKES 80% OF THE PROFIT

If you could hire just the right people, your whole life and role as a manager would probably be like a dream. It is a fabulous difference between being right and wrong in the area of recruitment. If we were [...]

15
Jan
7A
HIRING THE WRONG PERSON CAN HAVE EXTREME CONSEQUENCES

When we first began screening candidates, the biggest shock for me was the realization of that extremely few people had a clear idea of how exactly they contributed to the organization they were working for. Just having a job and [...]

08
Jan
The Art of Building a Team

To really understand how to build a team is probably one of the most crucial abilities of a manager who not only want to but also can create winning and profitable businesses, time after time. “Team-building” is NOT something you [...]

01
Jan