Is It Really So Idealistic?

Do you find it difficult to stay motivated in your HR role? I have been finding it increasingly difficult not to become cynical about HR and the role it plays in organisations, whether it be through my own experience or that of my friends and colleagues. I have often spoken with…

Climate Change is it Sustainable?

I went to an AHRI session last night on what HR/OD professionals can do to help build sustainable organisations. The first speaker started off saying how the planet is at a critical juncture and by 2030 we will be living in a very different world, essentially that we…

It’s Just a Job

I have been absent more often than not from blogging in the last couple of weeks, I have had other ‘priorities’, whether those be attending extracurricular HR seminars or forcing myself to get ahead on an assignment so I have sufficient time for my other assignments. I have been told my ‘living HR…

Only When You’ve Earned Your Stripes…

Have you ever given a subordinate mundane menial tasks to do because they haven’t yet ‘earned their stripes?’ Have you done this and had full awareness of the fact but shrugged it off as, ‘they have to do this work and in 5 years time they will be handing it out…

Do You Give or Only Take?

You turn on the TV while you’re getting ready for work in the morning and see a breaking news story, “oil tanker loses cargo and an environmental emergency is declared”. It is the company you work for again… it’s going to be a hell of a day at the office.

They’ll Just Leave Anyway

The manager was speaking with one of their staff after hours, “I don’t think Lucy is very happy at the moment…I think she’ll leave soon”.

How many times have you seen or witnessed this? Quite often I have come across the view that, if you’re not happy you’ll…

Seriously?

I resisted my sugar craving until 4:50 this afternoon and decided I would need a sugar hit to get me home in a good state of mind, so I grabbed my coins to head around to the admin area where the MS Charity Chocolate box is, as I rounded the corner I yelped in surprise, “no chocolates?”. The woman in admin…

How Work is Like Football

In the spirit of Easter I am going to write about Football…

One of my Physical Education Teachers always barked at us while we were running around chasing a ball, “you’re only as good as your weakest player”, and it works for business too. A good team in a…

Where Do You See Yourself In 5 Years?

I dread the interview question when you’re asked, ‘where do you want to be in 5 years?’, usually at the time I’m still trying to work out if I want that job, I haven’t even got to the point where I’m thinking 5 years down the track.

Do One Thing Well

I headed to Port Melbourne Postal Depot on Saturday morning with a notice for a package in my hand. When I arrived at the collection depot the man told me, “ahhh yeah, had a few of these this week, the postie used the wrong card, it’s at your normal post office”. Now this was a fail on a few…

Are There Any Good Managers?

While I was sipping a lychee and passionfruit martini tonight my friend and unofficial mentor wondered, ‘are there any good managers?’. While I contained my giggles over our HR conversations always sounding eerily similar to Carrie in sex and the city, interchanging of course…