We recently sent out a survey to a number of small businesses to ascertain how compliant they are around current employment legislation – and it made for stark reading. We had respondents from a wide range of industries such as travel, IT, finance, accountants, events, publishing and interior design to name just a few. The […]
No-one wants to be in this position but the reality is that, at some point, you are likely to have to make a role redundant. It’s important for the continued commercial viability of your business to be able to be nimble and respond to changing environments and change your structure, if required. In business today, […]
No business owner or manager wants to hear the news or suspect that an employee is stealing from them. There is rightful a rightful feeling of dread around brand damage, client security breaches and reputation but sadly employee theft or fraud is all too common and we have had clients who have been through this […]
It never ceases to amaze me how often I hear of non-performing employees in SMEs and also the level of frustration and angst this causes you, the business owner. The even more surprising aspect is when I ask you how long the employee has been a non-performer the answer is often not days, weeks or […]
After 20 years’ experience in human resources, I have definitely experienced some interesting scenarios. I’m never amazed at what people will do in the workplace, especially after a few drinks. The scenario I’m going to discuss occurred at a work conference. I can see the smile creep across your face – you have been there […]
Recently, FWA ruled that Home Choice had unfairly dismissed an employee who had emailed the entire company calling his MD a name (rhyming with banker!) and stating that one of his hobbies was masturbation. Pretty extreme I would say, so why couldn’t they fire him and what can we learn from this case? Culture – […]
Exit Stage Right
13/02/2014You may or may not have ever thought about the end – the time when for a number of reasons you would like to sell your business. The frightening thing is, is that you are not alone – the majority of business owners haven’t either – but if you would like to get 4 times […]
These simple steps in the article will help you ‘navigate’ the silly season and help to have all of your employees feel that they ‘matter’ to you. We have hit the ‘silly season’ and there is a very good reason that it is called just that. We typically eat, drink and party more enthusiastically than […]
The Secret Sauce
25/11/2013Why do some people want to desperately work for some businesses and avoid others like the plague? Mostly it can be put down to culture or the managers’ reputation. But how do you make or create a culture? Why would you bother? My thinking is that if more businesses focused on their cultural strategy, many […]
Biased? not me
14/11/2013I was visiting McDonalds yesterday on the behalf a client and, as I was leaving with my host, the lift opened and a women entered – average height probably in her late thirties – my host exchanged the usual type of pleasantries with her, as you do in a lift, so I assumed that she […]