At the recent HXM Digital Summit event, Sarah McCann-Bartlett the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of the Australian Human...

I recently completed a critique of the Performance Review process for a national sales organisation. Sadly, I identified five fundamental...

For three years I have suggested that while Santa is fictitious, he adds real value to our lives and inversely, performance reviews are...

Aaron McEwan from Gartner gave a great presentation at a recent conference on how the current rigid processes and practices in our...

A HR software provider recently demonstrated their product to me. On their opening slide was the statement that “95% of HR leaders are...

I recently listened to a presentation made by Tim Reed, CEO at MYOB and President of the Business Council of Australia. Tim stated that...

The Queensland Chief Health Officer is quoted as warning that we may never beat Covid-19 and the only thing we can do is manage it. What...

Recently my friend, a Senior Executive with companies including Energex, Siemens Energy Services, and Power & Water Corp told me: “I’ve...

I’ll address the question by sharing a case study, then arguing what I think is the real problem before providing my answer. The Case...

How to Remove Ratings, Formal Reviews and PIPs I was recently asked if it was possible to move away from ratings, “mid year” and/or...

OK I admit up front I cannot guarantee that by following the guidelines in this blog you will be deemed to have taken ‘reasonable...

am going to argue the that the more detailed and specific your HR Policies and Procedures become, the less effective they are. Consider a...

I will argue in this blog that indeed we are. I will argue that we seem to be bend-over-backwards to recognise and support the rights of...

Humanising is to make something less unpleasant and more suitable to people. Yet I would argue that in many workplaces, HR policies and...

It may surprise you to know that you most of your HR decisions can be made with just two processes; a Blue process and a Red process....

Karen Wickre, James Fox and others argue, HR does not exist for the employees, it exists to fulfil a corporate need (or a Department need...

At a recent management presentation, I opened by stating the cost of compliance activities in their business costs them about 25% of...

Let’s face it.  Performance Appraisals are the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. Something is fundamentally wrong...

My recent Blog “Stop Killing Bambi – A View of Managing Staff Performance” generated a lot of interest and discussion. This blog will...

My good friend and colleague Di Armbrust in our book “The 2% Effect” makes the following observation. “Bambi’ is a euphemism I’ve coined...