This blog may not be well received. Many people may disagree, some may think I’m entirely missing the point, but I’m sick of hearing about millennials, baby boomers and any other generational label people are sticking on me, my colleagues and my friends. ​If I was the sort of person who loved wearing labels you would classify me as Generation X. …

If there’s one thing I’ve noticed since launching my human resources career, it’s that no two paths are the same. Yet irrespective of field, experience or expertise, we do all share the capacity to make healthy choices and decisions towards a fulfilling life. Most of what we read about a great career touches only on the outer tactics of success …

Anyone who has worked in a corporate or office setting has likely heard something along these lines at one point or another. So, why does there seem to be such an overwhelmingly negative perception of HR and everything it does? Since HR is often so involved in disciplinary actions and terminations, there is a common misconception that HR departments exist …

Today I Googled ‘most boring job’, and guess what wasn’t on the list? – anything related to ‘Human Resources’, ‘People and Culture’ or ‘Talent’. Some jobs that did make the list, though, were: taking the temperature of frozen peas; throwing dirt onto packaged organic potatoes (to make them more organic looking?!); and stapling hundreds of papers per day. A recent …

Workplace stress can be severe due to workplace changes, mergers and acquisitions, organizational changes, a missed promotion, an unforeseen demotion, bullying, conflicts with colleagues or broken employee-employer relationships. At one point in our working lives or career we all experience this, but it is our response to these situations and having a positive healthy mindset and attitude that can change …

When a team member comes to you with an issue with another team member, what to do next can sometimes be a daunting task! It can seem the best option is to put it on the “to do” list and deal with it once all the “important” issues are finished.  DON’T DO THAT! Aside from the fact that it’s against …

For me, 2016 has been a year of momentous change. It got off to the worst of starts, my entire world flipped on its head. I had returned from living and working in the UK with a broken heart, an empty bank account and a very foggy plan for the future. This was actually the first time I’d fallen into a hole and …

When I think about time, what are some things that I could do in 8 minutes?  According to T-Nation, an MMA site I found on the internet, I could do 200 push ups in various ways or Amazon states that I could order an on-line book in this time.  I could also boil an egg for my breakfast or meditate …

A recent business trip near the Melbourne Cricket Ground got me thinking. The MCG is a place where we have seen some of Australia’s greatest sporting performances, as well as form slumps that have seen previous top players dropped from their teams. We see similarities in business, but some seem not to be able to drop their previous star players …

We recently returned from an innovation tour of the famous Silicon Valley last week and mind blowing does not do it justice. The Bay Area covering San Francisco and its surrounds is arguably the innovation heart of the world. It did not let us down, exhilarating insights into Virtual Reality (VR), Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the emerging …