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As we head into the Easter mini break, there’s a different vibe in the office today. It’s more energised, more casual, more personal. With a long weekend looming it’s easy to attribute the difference in engagement to the additional day off, this week and next. It raises the question, what if a 4+3 week was…
It wasn’t hard to find the inspiration for this blog post. Look no further than these awesome 1,000 Foo Fighters fans who came together to perform the song Learn to Fly, in a bid to lure the band to their country town. If you haven’t seen the video, watch it here now. What’s this got to…
Have you heard? Annual performance reviews are dead. This includes appraisals, ratings and distribution curves. It’s hard to imagine a more popular announcement. For a few years now the HR profession has been watching and assisting the decline of industrialised performance management, which had left many people with a bad taste in their mouth. Employees…
Automation. From the University of Oxford, Economist Carl Benedikt Frey and information engineer Michael A. Osborne, published a groundbreaking study estimating the probability that 702 occupations would soon be computerised out of existence. Pretty major stuff. Should HR be worried? It’s virtually certain that robots will make a big impact on the workforce, however there…
Be honest. In a job interview have you have ever faced the question ‘Tell me about your weaknesses’ and responded with ‘I’m a perfectionist’? I have, but never again. For many years the ‘I’m a perfectionist’ response became a cute, popularised approach for turning a potentially negative perception into a positive one. What employer wouldn’t…
