AHRI Pulse Survey of 760 HR professionals across Australia in late 2021 revealed that the focus for 2022 is well and truly still on wellbeing. The majority of organisations are requiring vaccination for their staff and employees have responded positively. As part of ensuring health and safety in the workplace, six in ten of HR […]
The world watched as the increase in attrition happened in the U.S. as a result of the pandemic when people needed to work from home. The term ‘The Great Resignation’ was conceived in late 2020 by Professor Anthony Klotz of Texas A&M University. The total recorded number of separations in the U.S has now reached […]
Living in a digital world means change is not only inevitable but also rapid. Digital transformation mandates companies upgrade their systems and ensure that employees have the right tools and the knowledge to use them. Technical changes is only half of the story, the other half is about how people cope and deal with these […]
A huge source of employee depression arises from the stress that comes from the “always-on” culture and worrying about one’s reputation. Trying to attend to every “urgent work distraction” can rob us of important life moments which can eventually lead to some guilt feelings. Nevertheless, we can create smart strategies to help us manage our […]
If we were students of philosophy we would turn to the great thinkers of our past like Immanuel Kant to help us through tough times. We would find solace in the conclusion that in Covid in Australia, we are all Kantians. Bemoaning the loss of philosophy in Australian education I often bemoan the loss of […]
Many organisations are achieving gender equality in their working practices by adopting more flexible work practices as part of their Hybrid Workplace strategy. They are doing this to align to the expectations of their employees for flexibility and especially for women demanding greater support in managing work and home life. Notable examples are Telstra, ANZ, […]
I love the work of Amy Edmonson. Her seminal research on psychological safety provided the framework for Google’s Project Aristotle, a now infamous case study on what makes teams effective. Google made psychological safety cool but Amy’s work had begun decades before. This article, published in HBR about a month ago links psychological safety to […]
I wanna do it my way Results from the latest workplace survey by PWC suggest that the majority of workers do not want to return to the office full-time. Ninety percent of Australians want to keep working from home, in some capacity. Are we really surprised that we don’t want to go back to the […]
Welcome to the Gears, Action, Growth podcast with Christy Mori and Dr Josephine Palermo. We recently had a great discussion about how to build your best team. We spoke about what business owners, team leaders, and employees can do to ensure they have a great team environment, one where team members can flourish and have a […]
We have successfully endured 2020. We utilised all our coping strategies and positivity to get through the stress, anxiety and uncertainty that the pandemic generated for so many of us. Now we have great expectations for 2021 in the context of a continuing pandemic and the lagging impacts to come. We are tired, fatigued and weary. What do we do to invigorate ourselves and our teams?
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