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Webinar: 5 Reasons Your Budget Needs to Centre on Your Employees

Home » Webinar: 5 Reasons Your Budget Needs to Centre on Your Employees

May 23, 2024
  • Natasha Hawker HR recruitment expert
    Written by Natasha Hawker
    Founder and Managing Director

    Natasha is a leading HR expert, entrepreneur, author and sought-after media commentator for outlets such as Sunrise (Channel 7), ABC Radio and The Australian Financial Review. Natasha co-founded Employee Matters in 2011 to help Australian businesses achieve success through their people.

In the face of current economic challenges, it’s critical that business owners and people leaders invest in their employees and their people management.

Watch this online session to learn how taking an employee-centred approach to your budget is vital to surviving & thriving in FY25, including:

  • How to restructure - not fracture - your business
  • The importance of finding and keeping your A-Team
  • The hidden price of cutting costs
  • The ROI of investing in engagement
  • The financial risks of delaying action on ER changes

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Natasha Hawker
Founder & Managing Director
Employee Matters

Natasha Hawker is the Managing Director of Employee Matters, a leader in the Australian HR space and a sought after speaker, author, podcaster and media commentator. Natasha's insights on HR news and trends have been featured by ABC Radio, 7+ Sunrise, The Financial Review, and the Sydney Morning Herald, to name a few. Natasha’s book “From Hire to Fire & Everything In Between” is an Amazon best seller, based on over 30 years of experience helping businesses around the world Hire, Manage and Exit thousands of employees. A graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors, Natasha leads Employee Matters, a business that provides HR and Recruitment support to businesses great and small. Employee Matters was a 2023 State Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards.

Tags: Recruitment, Employee management, EVP, Fair work, Business planning, Wage theft

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