I find futurists fascinating. From their wild ideas to which I think “no way” or their ideas which seems so obvious that I go “of course that will happen” they stretch my understanding of what the future holds. One such is Ian Neild who is visiting Australia at the moment to attend Borderless World Conference,Continue reading “In the future we will…”
Category Archives: HR Management
Gen Y in the Workforce
I was surprised to see Shannon Seery Gude mentioned in the local IT press, CIO Magazine’s May issue, not surprised that she has been quoted in a magazine, but more that our IT press found her, kudos to the CIO Mag guys! The May issue covered a very topical area on Gen Y in theContinue reading “Gen Y in the Workforce”
Google searching trends
The Google Australia blog has an interesting post on the searching trends/patterns of Australians, the post provides some insight into what make Australian’s tick. The way we search is in some ways not surprising. Proportionally, Australians do the most searches for meat pies, Aussie Rules, sunshine, sunburn, sea change, air conditioning, beer, Torana, snake, waterContinue reading “Google searching trends”
5 minute management practices
Anna Farmery from over at the Engaging Brand, which if you have not described you must, posted about what to do in a spare 5 minutes. Send a quick handwritten note to someone who has developed, who has delivered, who has had a hard day. Write down one objective for tomorrow that is centred aroundContinue reading “5 minute management practices”
Workplace saftey
For the HR folks out there, or anyone with health and safety responsibilities this is something you don’t want! Moulten Molten steel kills 32 workers. (Updated spelling serves me right for posting quickly.) In one of the worst accidents seen in China’s perilous steel industry, 32 workers were killed when molten metal poured into theirContinue reading “Workplace saftey”
Performance reviews
In a week that for many in the US will be remembered for a long time we see another reported workplace shooting. This time over a performance review. Police in the US state of Texas say yesterday’s murder suicide at NASA’s Johnson Space Centre happened after the space engineer responsible was given a bad jobContinue reading “Performance reviews”
Fat blogging and employees
Jason Calacanis a while back decided to loose some weight, coined the term fat blogging, registered the domain and got a few overweight geeks to join in to loose those kilos (pounds if you are still old-school). Over the last 6-9 months I have gone through my own weight loss program. I needed to reduceContinue reading “Fat blogging and employees”
Are you dependent on others at work then Co-Working might be for you
We all know there is growing trend of lone-rangers and consultants floating around the employment market and everything is pointing to this trend continuing. One of the biggest issues with going it alone has always been the cost of setting up your own office, which is why so many work at home. Working at home,Continue reading “Are you dependent on others at work then Co-Working might be for you”
Work life balance
Just finished listening to the latest Cranky Middle Manager podcast about work life balance. As always Wayne does a great job of covering the topic with his Guest Cali Yost. They cover lots of really good topics and provide some good tips on how to start gaining some balance in your life.
Management training
Personally I love the week long residential training programs that all companies seem to send employees on. I’m not sure if it is the getting out of real work, although the work builds up while you are gone, the learning, the social interaction or what. Most of the programs tend to focus on fairly commonContinue reading “Management training”
Michael Specht 