Month: March 2019

Culture and change
Emma Browning

How to deliver a killer 121

If you manage people you should be having regular 121’s with them. End of. Full stop. No debate. I won’t be shifted on this matter! What 121s aren’t are project review meetings – they should not be about status updates on projects and tasks. There are plenty of other places to talk about those things. The 121 meeting is all about the team member; their needs, their frustrations, their feedback, their ideas, and career growth are the topics of discussion. I cannot emphasise enough how terribly important these regular sessions…
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Culture and change
Emma Browning

Business GrowtH(R)

Hello boys and girls. Sit down, and let me tell you a story. Are you comfy? Good, then I’ll begin….. There once was a beautiful boutique business run by a passionate and hard-working entrepeneur. Thanks to a mountain of hard work, blood, sweat and tears, the business is now going ‘great guns; turnover is up, orders are flooding in, they’ve moved into plush new offices, hired a great new team and it truly feels like the world is their proverbial oyster*. But, what’s that? Suddenly and without warning, this fairytale…
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Employment law
Emma Browning

Ask me to review your employment contracts, for free. No catch.

In December, you might have noticed that the Government introduced its biggest package of workplace reforms for 20 years, the Good Work Plan and you will see the accompanying advertising campaign during your TV ad breaks this month. And front of centre of this package was employment contracts. Chances are, if you haven’t reviewed your employment contracts in the last 5 years then they are probably seriously out of date, uncompliant, out of sync with your company values and not going to stand up to too much scrutiny if you…
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