Fear in the workplace can have a significant impact on performance and collaboration, according to positive psychology expert Tim Sharp, who said managers and leaders need to spend more time looking out for opportunities to catch people doing things right and recognising positive behaviours. Fear, like all emotions, has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the…
With a high proportion of staff yet to return to the office following the COVID-19 shutdowns, attention must also be given to the devices being used by remote workers. Companies need to understand how they can best keep employees engaged and secure online while working outside the traditional corporate firewall, writes Jamie Davidson, ANZ Regional Sales…
HR is missing a significant opportunity by not getting involved in the ownership of productivity-related drivers within organisations, according to a leading expert in workforce planning and analytics. “When we talk about workforce productivity, the interesting thing is HR people don’t really feel like that’s their job,” said Jeff Higgins, CEO of the Human Capital…
Personal analytics can target key underlying causes of poor productivity, performance, business relationship/personal issues – and help effect more meaningful change for individuals, writes Rob Scott Generally, when we think about analytics we envisage the interrogation of heaps of data to unearth insights which help inform future decision making. This is correct of course, and…
To build an effective data strategy that alleviates pain points requires a thorough assessment of the existing data literacy skills in the workforce. This can be achieved through a number of ways such as conducting focus groups to understand current attitudes towards data and undertaking a data literacy assessment to measure fundamental skills like reading…
Medibank’s leaders play a critical role in driving sustainable performance through encouraging and enabling employees to “bring their whole self to work”, which in turn increases engagement, boosts discretionary effort and drives productivity, according to its head of HR. Leadership plays a “huge role” in this process, according to Medibank’s general manager people & culture,…
All levels of employee believe their skill levels are an average of 25 per cent below what is required to do their job as well as they could, according to recent research. Conducted by Leadership Management Australasia (LMA), the research took in 1900 individuals across five levels of the workforce, which self-rated competencies on a…
While some firms undertake workforce planning and development in an effective and sophisticated way, there are many others which don’t, according to the head of Australia’s peak skills advisory body. “All of our forecasting shows that we will need more skills and higher level skills,” said Robin Shreeve, CEO of the Australian Workplace and Productivity…
Debates around productivity improvement are largely inconsequential unless organisations can find and implement innovative ways to build management capabilities and encourage effective people management, according to The University of Melbourne. “Centralised HR functions can put in place policies and procedures to encourage good practice, but we know that to be effective these sorts of systems…
Debates around productivity improvement are largely inconsequential unless organisations can find and implement innovative ways to build management capabilities and encourage effective people management, according to The University of Melbourne. “Centralised HR functions can put in place policies and procedures to encourage good practice, but we know that to be effective these sorts of systems…